Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond to medication and the promising new surgical and technological treatments available.

Researchers found smoking marijuana was associated with significantly increased risk of asthma, including among people who ...

UCSF scientists discovered that an overlooked cell type in the brain plays a central role in healing traumatic brain injury.

A TED Talk-style presentation on the effects of tangled DNA strands took first place at this year's Postdoc Slam competition, which is held in celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week.

UCSF’s world-renowned research is driving medical advances in understanding the causes of disease and developing new treatments and cures to improve lives. For every $1 the NIH invests, institutions ...

The start of a new academic year is a special time, full of promise for the next generation of leaders in the health sciences and opportunity with the debut of new education in the professional ...

UCSF Health transplant specialists recently performed an innovative, minimally invasive pancreatic islet transplant designed to enable a patient with Type 1 diabetes to become insulin independent. ...

A study led by UCSF and UC Davis concluded that radiation from medical imaging is associated with a higher risk of blood ...

UC San Francisco researchers are revolutionizing what we thought we knew about how cancer spreads, opening new paths to cures.