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

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

Scientists have thought that when we hear language, the brain processes it the same way, whether it's familiar or foreign. A ...

Differentiated thyroid cancer is the most frequently diagnosed thyroid cancer in the U.S. Recently, the American Thyroid Association (ATA) released new practice guidelines for Differentiated thyroid ...

1 in 4 sexually active women has used injectable birth control, administered into the muscle by a clinician, but many may be unaware of its association with meningioma, the most common brain tumor in ...

If you’re looking to reduce your chances of developing lung disease, say experts at UC San Francisco, then it may be smart to avoid inhaling cannabis. A new study in the Journal of General Internal ...

Alan Zambeli-Ljepovic, MD, MHS, sits at the arcade-like console like a church organist. He places his feet on the machine’s pedals and slips the middle finger and thumb of each hand into delicate ...

Aging is particularly harsh on the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for learning and memory. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have identified a protein that’s at the center of this ...

A UCSF and Gladstone Institutes team discovered a pair of cancer drugs that successfully treated a model of severe Alzheimer’s disease. From left: Marina Sirota, PhD; Yaqiao Li, PhD; and Yadong Huang, ...

From hydration to ovulation, health trackers keep tabs on nearly 1 in 4 Americans. But wearable devices like these are just one piece of the ever-expanding medical “internet of things” — a universe of ...