SF News Male Pedestrian Killed By Dump Truck In SF's Parnassus Heights A pedestrian was killed Tuesday morning at the intersection of Parnassus Avenue and Stanyan Street, in a collision involving a dump truck.
SF News Report: Some of UCSF Parnassus Was Sweltering With No Air Conditioning During Heatwave Nurses say that a group of patients at the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus were subjected to torrid indoor temperatures of 98 degrees or more during this past week’s heatwave, as the hospital does not have air conditioning on certain floors.
SF News Doctors at UCSF Battle Over Opinions of the Gaza War, Question Whether Protest Should Happen at a Hospital As at many university campuses around the country, protests have broken out at the University of California San Francisco over the war between Israel and Hamas, only UCSF is, uniquely, mostly a medical institution with no undergraduate student body.
SF News UCSF May Become Anchor Tenant of Potrero Power Station Redevelopment Project The Potrero Power Station Redevelopment project, now six years in the making, may have an anchor tenant for its life sciences building, and it's none other than UCSF.
SF News Fertility Doctor Accused of Using His Own Sperm to Artificially Inseminate Women While Treating Patients at UCSF Dr. Christopher Herndon surrendered his medical license after a woman that he treated 14 years ago at UCSF came forward with claims that he's the biological father of her children.
SF News MDMA Gets Closer to FDA Approval, Thanks to UCSF-Led Project A just-published study led by a UCSF neurologist and psychiatrist shows MDMA is safe and effective for treatment of PTSD, and there are efforts underway to get the hallucinogen FDA approval for legal, medical use.
SF News Dr. Bob Wachter Recovers From COVID and Gruesome Trash Can Injury, Jokes About It on Podcast After a bout with COVID and a nasty collapse onto a trash can, UCSF COVID sage Dr. Bob Wachter is almost as good as new, and yukking it up over the whole ordeal on a new podcast.
SF News Dr. Bob Wachter Contracts COVID, Collapses and Suffers Nasty Head Wound We’re all wishing a speedy recovery to UCSF’s cult-hit COVID sage Dr. Bob Wachter, who contracted the virus himself this week, then collapsed in the shower and suffered bleeding around the brain and a neck fracture.
SF News Dr. Bob Wachter Ends His UCSF 'Grand Rounds' YouTube Forum Stressing COVID Is Not Fully Behind Us Three years and three months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF Dr. Bob Wachter has done his last "Grand Rounds" forum on YouTube, but he stresses that the novel coronavirus and its variants will remain very much a part of our lives.
SF News All-Female UCSF Surgical Team Performs Heart Transplant Surgery, In Likely Historical First Some historic heart-related news on Valentine's Day, as UCSF has recorded the first heart transplant performed entirely by a team of women — a first for the school, and possibly the first in history.
SF News UCSF’s Dr. Bob Wachter Says He’s Masking Up Again, Says 1 in 30 San Franciscans Has COVID and Doesn’t Know It COVID Twitter sage Dr. Bob Wachter says “there's a lot of Covid out there” in San Francisco, encouraging masking up indoors as he estimates that one out of every 30 asymptomatic people in SF are indeed positive for COVID-19.
SF News San Francisco Is Poised for 'Undeniable Hospital Surge’ of COVID-19 Cases UCSF Department of Medicine Chair Dr. Bob Wachter — who has become a touchstone on Twitter for understanding the state of the COVID-19 health crisis — noted that the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has been steadily rising, though it’s not likely to overwhelm SF hospitals.
SF News Top UCSF Doc Says That We Could Be in ‘A Pretty Good Situation in February’ Where COVID Is ‘Like the Flu’ An optimistic but data-rich tweetstorm from UCSF Department of Medicine chair Dr. Bob Wachter lays out the case that we could be on the verge of finally subduing the COVID-19 menace, albeit after a very rough January.
SF News New UCSF Parnassus Hospital Design Unveiled By Architects of deYoung Museum UCSF has released a new rendering for its proposed 15-story hospital addition at its revamped Parnassus campus, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, and it's quite pretty.
SF News Swift Sequencing of Omicron Sample at UCSF Highlights Challenges of Tracking Variant's Spread Perhaps the only reason the first U.S. case was found in SF is because of the caliber of the health system here, not because it isn't already in other places in the country.
SF News Top UCSF Doctors Say ‘San Francisco has Clearly Turned the Corner’ on Delta Variant San Francisco case rates are down and hospitalizations have plateaued, meaning the Delta variant appears to be on the wane, but no one’s spiking the football lest we see another case spike
SF News SF General and UCSF Staff COVID-19 Infections Raise Concern About Rate of Breakthrough Cases Between UCSF and SF General, the two hospitals recorded at least 233 COVID-19 infections amongst staff members. Of those infected, around 80% were fully inoculated against the disease — but just two vaccinated people were hospitalized in total.
SF News Herd Immunity For San Francisco May Be Just Three Weeks Away There are still a few unknowns, and it would be unwise to declare ourselves definitively out of the woods, but some often-quoted experts at UCSF are sounding pretty bullish about San Francisco's shot at herd immunity.
SF News One UCSF Doc Says Outdoor Mask Mandate Should Be Lifted; Another Says He Still Won't Dine Indoors It's getting to where infectious disease experts may start diverging in their levels of relative caution when it comes to public safety mandates. And while two UCSF doctors don't necessarily disagree in some recent statements, one is urging a lifting of SF's mandate on wearing masks outdoors.
SF News UCSF Docs Discuss SF's Remarkably Low COVID Mortality Rate, and Whether the Vaccinated Should Fear Variants A panel of doctors at UCSF have been broadcasting their "Grand Rounds" since early in the pandemic, and looking back on the past year they say San Francisco has been a great success story.
Business & Tech UCSF Team Finds Cancer Drug That Is 30 Times More Effective At Fighting COVID Than Remdesivir A research team at UCSF has landed on a potential game-changing treatment for COVID-19, though it is a cancer drug made by a Spanish firm that is not yet approved for any uses in the United States.
SF News Biden Taps UCSF Prof. David Kessler to Lead Vaccine Distribution Effort UCSF professor of pedriatics, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and former FDA head Dr. David Kessler will be President-elect Joe Biden's chief science officer of COVID response in charge of vaccine science.
SF News Biden Names Three UCSF Docs to Pandemic Task Force The Biden Administration is beginning to take shape already, and the president-elect has said he wants to make tackling the COVID-19 pandemic his number-one priority.
SF News Humpday Headlines: COVID Outbreak Infects At Least Five at UCSF Hospital Two patients and at least three healthcare workers in one unit at UCSF Parnassus have tested for COVID-19, Fairfield police are seeking a suspect in a hit-and-run that killed an 81-year-old, and PG&E issues the "all clear" for those who lost power.
SF News UCSF Med School Chair Suggests Hope For San Francisco In Avoiding Explosive COVID Surge While surging cases in the Bay Area concern Dr. Bob Wachter somewhat, he strikes a hopeful note here in mid-July that San Francisco will escape the high mortality rate and overwhelmed healthcare system being seen elsewhere in the country.
