A UCSF team discover how breast cancer tumors tunnel into neighboring fat cells to trigger fat breakdown in order to feed on ...

UCSF looks back on four ways it pioneered deep brain stimulation with the help of federal funding, helping patients with ...

Two new Pew Latin American fellows, Beatriz De Moraes, PhD, and Lilian Gomes de Oliveira, PhD, will each receive a $30,000 ...

The vascular surgery team at UCSF Health recently became the first among University of California medical centers to implant a Barostim device to treat heart failure. The team implanted the device in ...

A UCSF team develops a new drug for malaria that could address one of the disease's biggest challenges - the spread of parasites that resist the most commonly-used medications.

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Scientists discover a protein that gets concentrated in the brain during aging, leading brain connections to wither and ...

In 1981, a mysterious illness began overwhelming the San Francisco community. Since those early days of the epidemic, UCSF has steadfastly been at the forefront of patient care, research and community ...

Human travel in space has known implications for health, and longer voyages, such as to Mars, will mean great impacts. Scientists are working to fully understand how time in space effects the human ...

A decade-long effort has resulted in a new, rapid genomic test to diagnose rare infectious diseases in the brain and lungs.