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UCSF has received a four-year, $2.4 million National Institutes of Health grant for an international study on the potential of femoral fractures from osteoporosis drugs.

Results from the largest single study of the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in African-American children suggest that only a tiny fraction of known genetic risk factors for the disease apply to this population, raising concerns for clinicians and scientists working to stem the asthma epidemic among African-Americans.

Approximately 50 percent of current and ex-smokers with normal lung function have chronic breathing symptoms and flare-ups that are similar to patients with a disease that is the nation’s third most common killer, according to a multisite study led by UCSF.

A new national analysis by UCSF of health care expenditures associated with smoking estimates that a 10 percent decline in smoking in the U.S. would be followed a year later by an estimated $63 billion reduction in total national health care costs.

Ten years after the QB3 Garage incubator launched, the idea has grown an innovation ecosystem and become the catalyst for state legislation that could help turn ideas at UC campuses into job-providing companies.

UC San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) have committed to continue supporting New Generation Health Center for an additional year, enabling the center to provide reproductive health care in the community through June 2017.

Before the Class of 2016 heads on to new endeavors and careers, we spoke to several of them about what they're taking from their experiences at UCSF.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded three fellowships to UCSF medical students to allow them to conduct research for a full year in between their third and fourth years of medical school.

The UCSF National Center for Excellence in Women’s Health is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a street fair to mark its accomplishments as well as to look forward to the work that remains for equality in health care.

UCSF is starting a campus-wide bioethics program led by the noted bioethics scholar Barbara Koenig to ensure that the rapid advances in biomedical technology are incorporated ethically into research and medicine.

UCSF surgeons performed the first Osseoanchored Prosthesis for the Rehabilitation of Amputees surgery in the U.S. – a surgery that will allow an external prosthesis to be anchored directly to the patient’s remaining bone.

A 27-year-old drug for anemia may protect newborns at high risk for brain damage, according to the results of a multisite trial led by researchers at UCSF.

UCSF has created a new, need-based Cost of Living Supplement pilot program for students to help offset the high cost of housing in the city.

UCSF's Discovery Fellows Program once again exceeded its goals in a second round of fundraising, with a total of 1,042 donors building an endowment of $80 million to support basic science education and research for generations to come.

Andrew Bindman has been named director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Proper communication between the left and right sides of the brain is critical for the development of advanced language skills, according to new research by UC San Francisco scientists.

Five UCSF faculty members have been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation after a highly competitive nomination process.

Refugees who fled to Europe a generation ago are significantly more likely to have developed type 2 diabetes if they initially settled in poor neighborhoods, according to a study of 60,000 refugees who came to Sweden between 1987 and 1991.

Exciting advances in medicine and health are being researched in precision medicine projects recently funded by the George and Judy Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation.

New research by UCSF scientists could accelerate – by 10 to 100-fold – the pace of many efforts to profile gene activity, ranging from basic research into how to build new tissues from stem cells to clinical efforts to detect cancer or auto-immune diseases by profiling single cells in a tiny drop of blood.