Jason Nagata, MD, MSc, discusses the health dangers of excessive social media use on the health of children, in response to ...

The UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) has received a significant grant to fund autism-related research.

A study by Nevan Krogan and Matt State reveals protein interactions in the brain that are relevant to autism and epilepsy.

Forever chemicals are in our water and our blood. Now, UCSF researchers are understanding what happens when they reach our ...

The upsurge in Parkinson's cases has been described as reaching pandemic levels. Caroline Tanner, MD, PhD, discusses her ...

UCSF is launching a national Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders that provides training and resources to providers, supported by a five-year grant from SAMHSA.

UCSF is to become of the repository of a new class of industry documents due to a settlement in the state of Minnesota.

UCSF Health, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital have launched UCSF Health Converge, a new health AI accelerator that brings select companies together with clinicians, operators, and technology leaders ...

The “red tide” algal blooms that are becoming more frequent along the Pacific coast produce one of the most potent neurotoxins known: saxitoxin, or STX. The toxin accumulates in shellfish and causes ...

The first two patients with early or asymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease will be screened this week for a novel national clinical trial led by UC San Francisco. This is the first large-scale trial to ...

A new study led by UC San Francisco found an alarming rise in invasive breast cancer among Asian American women over the last two decades. Rates are rising among nearly all Asian American ethnic ...

At his desk at Genentech, Hanson Hoang, MS-AICD3, assesses machine learning models and looks for tools that will help scientists develop drugs more efficiently and accurately. The work feels familiar ...