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UCSF Medical Center has again been named as one of the country’s top hospitals for patient care and safety, appearing on the national Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals rankings for 2024-2025. Top 10 Nationwide (national rank shown) #3 Neurology and Neurosurgery – Best in the

Transgender women on hormone therapy tend to skew artificially low on prostate cancer screening tests, which may give false reassurance and delay diagnosis and treatment, reports a new study led by UC San Francisco. The researchers found that transwomen scored 50 times lower than typical PSA tests

Three UC San Francisco scientists have received 2024 Pew awards to fund their research in neuroscience and cancer. They include a cognitive scientist, Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, PhD, who is challenging the reigning theory of learning; Justin Eyquem, PhD, a bioengineer who aims to build cancer

Erin Fusco loves to visit Disneyland. She’s had an annual pass since she was 18 years old and has visited hundreds of times. But there was a stretch when her regular trips to the happiest place on earth were put on hold. When Fusco, now 37, was in her 20s, she was living in the Bay Area with her

This month marked an important milestone for UCSF faculty and clinicians working to take on the challenge of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). They treated their first patient with a promising chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy that was fully conceived, designed, optimized and manufactured

The awe-inspiring process of cell division can turn a fertilized egg into a baby – or a cancerous cell into a malignant tumor. With so much at stake, nature keeps it tightly controlled in a process called the cell cycle that scientists thought they thoroughly understood. But now it turns out there

Oncology specialists from around the world will come together for the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting to discuss the latest developments in cancer care, research, technology and education. The meeting will feature over 200 sessions complementing this year’s theme,