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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ghirardelli Sign Is Coming Down, Getting Replaced The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack at UCSF, Newsom says statewide mask enforcement may be coming, and the iconic Ghirardelli sign is about to go dark and get replaced with new letters.
SF News UCSF Researchers Discover How Coronavirus Makes 'Zombies' Of Human Cells, Causes Them To Sprout Tentacles A new study by an international team led by UC San Francisco finds that cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 quickly begin to grow new arms or dendrites — referred to clinically as filopodia — which are themselves studded with fresh virus particles.
SF News UCSF Team Identifies 10 Existing Drugs and Compounds to Treat COVID-19 A team of researchers at the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF launched a fast-paced, all-nighter effort in late February to understand how the novel coronavirus functions, and to quickly identify existing drugs that could be used to stop it.
SF News UCSF Begins Using Convalescent Plasma Therapy To Treat COVID-19 Patients It's safe to say there'll be no coronavirus vaccine available in the near future — or even this year. In lieu of one on the proverbial horizon, doctors at UCSF have started using plasma infusions that contain COVID-19 antibodies as a treatment method for the infection.
SF News Clinical Lab at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Begins Antibody Testing for COVID-19 Next Week While current national COVID-19 testing — which involves a technique called reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) — remains at a shortage, an SF lab is validating a new antibody test, helping to both expand testing availability and identify possible cases of herd immunity.
SF News UCSF Holds Virtual Town Hall On Pandemic Preparedness, Reveals Only Two Weeks' Supply of Masks and Gear Led by Chancellor Sam Hawgood and UCSF Health CEO Mark Laret, the online town hall meeting Friday afternoon — watched by more than 6,500 people — gave insights into how UCSF Health is making COVID-19 tests more available.
SF News UCSF Doctor With COVID-19: 'I Felt Just a Little Sick' An emergency room physician at UCSF tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Saturday, and he's now opening up about his symptoms, anxieties, and general state of mind on Medium.
SF News Two UCSF Healthcare Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) officials confirmed that two healthcare employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting exposure concerns over the novel respiratory virus.
SF News UCSF Launches Website And Alert System To Warn About Chase Center Traffic USCF Medical Center at Mission Bay wants to make sure that its staff and patients know when to expect the inevitable traffic nightmares around the Chase Center that are set to begin next month.
SF News Robber Tackles Woman For Wallet, Jumps Onto Muni At least one San Francisco mugger is using a disturbing strategy to rob Muni passengers then flee: Wait on a Muni Metro platform for a rider to disembark, knock them over and rob
SF News Google's Waze Carpool Program Expands To Entire Bay Area, Partnering With UCSF, Kaiser, MTC Waze, the Israeli-created GPS maps application that tracks traffic and crowdsources up-to-the-minute reports on everything from accidents to potholes, was snapped up by Google in 2013, and as that company has incorporated Waze
Arts & Entertainment Video: Introducing UCSF's Therapy Cat, And Laguna Honda's Therapy Animal Menagerie Tucked up on Mount Sutro is a pretty amazing institution that has its roots in San Francisco's Gold Rush era, and is now one of only a few publicly owned and publicly funded
SF News San Francisco Ranked Top City For College Students Despite Cost Of Living Pass the beer bong, bro. Despite the high cost of living, San Francisco just got named the top "major metro" for college students by the American Institute for Economic Research. According to the
SF News UCSF Study Reveals Sugar Industry Plot To Blame Fat For Heart Problems In the early 1950s, warning signs appeared that linked sugar consumption to coronary heart disease. But by the mid-1960s, the New England Journal of Medicine had published studies — secretly sponsored by industry trade
SF News UCSF Receives Largest Ever Donation: $185 Million Former CItigroup CEO Sanford "Sandy" Weill already has one major medical school to his name: Weill Cornell Medical College. Nonetheless, he and his wife Joan Weill have turned their philanthropic eye westward, donating
SF News Board Of Supes Reprimands UCSF For Firing Of Chinese-Speaking Janitors There's been a recent dustup between the Board of Supervisors and the city's second largest employer, UCSF, over what the supervisors see as unjust labor practices on the part of the university. The
SF News Neuroscientist Moves Family To SF, Is Promptly Robbed Of All Possessions When UCSF offered Jeremy Biane a job as a postdoctoral researcher in their neuroscience department, it seemed like a great deal: His wife is from SF, so they'd get to be closer to
SF News Video: Berkeley Sexual Assault Suspect Flees Scene Of Third Attack Berkeley police are investigating the third case of sexual assault in under a week to take place near People's Park. Investigators believe the three cases are related, and have released video depicting a
SF News Woman Slain At UCSF Was Victim Of Domestic Violence Dispute Days after a fatal stabbing rocked UCSF's Parnassus Avenue campus, the victim has finally been identified. According to the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office, San Francisco's first homicide victim for 2016 has been
SF News E-Cigarettes Don't Help People Quit Smoking, According To UCSF Study Although e-cigarettes are often marketed as devices to help smokers quit, a new study finds they do little to help smokers kick the habit. The study, done by UCSF and published in The
