UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center has again received the highest possible national rating of “high performing” for maternity ...

UCSF Health provides urgent care services at sixteen convenient locations for patients to receive care for seasonal illnesses.

UCSF researchers have made strides toward an HIV cure, showing experimental immunotherapy can help control the virus without ...

Matthew Growdon's study finds "prescription cascades" where drug side effects lead to unnecessary second prescriptions, ...

Thirdhand smoke is toxic lingering tobacco residue on surfaces that harms children most. California's new AB455 mandates ...

How a UCSF Scientist Helped Ban a Chemical Connected to Parkinson’s ...

Scientists have thought that when we hear language, the brain processes it the same way, whether it's familiar or foreign. A new study reveals that exposure to a language changes how certain clusters ...

Or at least that’s what artificial intelligence (AI) experts prophesized in 2016 when they said AI would outperform radiologists within the decade. Today, AI isn’t replacing imaging specialists, but ...

Neurons that promote wakefulness in the brain of an Alzheimer's patient (green). There are far fewer functioning neurons that would be seen in a healthy brain, indicating that the awake system is ...

Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder that affects the structure and function of hemoglobin, reduces the ability of red blood cells to transport oxygen efficiently, and progresses to a ...

A generation ago, most people with multiple sclerosis could expect to rely on walkers and wheelchairs or be limited to their bed within 15 years of diagnosis. Today, UC San Francisco’s discoveries are ...