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The abundance of a subtype of white blood cells in melanoma tumors can predict whether or not patients will respond to a form of cancer immunotherapy known as checkpoint blockade, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco researchers and physicians.

UCSF School of Nursing Dean David Vlahov has announced he will step down as dean at the end of August. He will continue as a member of the school’s faculty where he will focus on research and mentoring.

In 1996, two UCSF physicians published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that launched a new field of medicine focused on the inpatient experience. To mark the 20th anniversary of their seminal NEJM article, Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman reflect on the rapid rise of hospitalists.

UCSF alumnus Joshua A. Gordon has been selected as the next director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

UC San Francisco’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has received $85 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue to provide training, research support and other services, and to launch new programs aimed at diversifying the patients in research and advancing precision medicine.

The stigma associated with mental illnesses is causing millions of Americans go untreated because of misconceptions and shame. UCSF researchers are among those who are pushing for changes that would help to eliminate the stigma and get people the treatments they need.

The UCSF community is deeply saddened by the passing of Theodore R. Schrock, the former chief medical officer of UCSF Medical Center and a renowned endoscopic surgeon who pioneered the use of colonoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool.

A new analysis of nationwide emergency department (ED) records led by UC San Francisco researchers has revealed that black patients seen for back or abdominal pain are roughly half as likely as white patients to be prescribed opioids in the ED or at discharge.

The first results from a large international study of patients taking metformin, the world’s most commonly used type 2 diabetes drug, reveal genetic differences among patients that may explain why some respond much better to the drug than others.

In light of the recent national focus on lead in water, UCSF is taking voluntary, proactive steps to test the quality of its drinking water to ensure that lead levels are within the standards recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Canopy Health, the Bay Area-wide health care network being developed by UCSF Health, John Muir Health and three physician groups, has received its Knox-Keene license to operate in seven Bay Area counties.

UC San Francisco, one of the nation’s top three medical schools, is launching a new curriculum this month to train doctors in the skills needed to navigate and engineer the complex health care delivery and bioscience systems of the 21st Century.

A new study led by UCSF scientists shows that a bacterium commonly found in the human gut is overrepresented in patients with a rare, often disabling autoimmune disease known as neuromyelitis optica.

A new UC San Francisco study shows that specialized brain cells in mice “predict” the hydrating effects of drinking, deactivating long before the liquids imbibed can actually change the composition of the bloodstream.

UCSF Medical Center has been named among the nation’s premier medical institutions for the 15th consecutive year, ranking as the seventh best hospital in the country in U.S. News & World Report’s 2016-2017 Best Hospitals survey.

In a surprising finding, researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered that the prevalence among Americans of chronic kidney disease (CKD), a condition that costs Medicare tens of billions of dollars to treat each year, hasn't increased since the early 2000s.

UCSF's School of Medicine is launching its Bridges curriculum to address the health care needs of the future. Built from the ground up, it is the medical school’s first new curriculum in 15 years.

A delegation from the National Autonomous University of Mexico visited UCSF on Thursday as part of a University of California trip to renew an agreement of collaboration between the two institutions.

Two researchers at UCSF have received funding awards from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) that total $5.5 million.

Two UCSF-affiliated projects received top honors in the 2016 University of California’s 2016 Larry L. Sautter Awards for information.