Become a UC Advocate
COVID-19 predictions for 2021 and beyond
UCSF
January 21, 2021
Health experts offer their view of the path ahead.
Video
-
How do our bodies fight off dangerous chemicals?
Cells are like night club bouncers, says UC San Diego's Amro Hamdoun: With every substance that a cell encounters, it has to decide which to eliminate and which to let in. -
How much sugar are you really eating?
In the near future, the Nutrition Facts label on the back of packaged foods will have a new look and more information. UC Davis' Kimber Stanhope explains how this will reveal the amount of sugar that is added to our foods. -
Ebola 101
An infectious-disease expert at UC Berkeley offers a primer on the deadly Ebola virus. -
New tactics, old foe: malaria
Vector biologist Anthony James takes a fresh look at how mosquitoes transmit malaria and other diseases.
-
Saving dogs with spinal cord injuries
February 6, 2012
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, fabulas debitis usu in, facer choro his ex, ei ius fabulas legendos recteque. Ex fugit quodsi repudiare has, viderer concludaturque ea qui, has in malis labores iudicabit. Vel eu errem vocibus percipit. Quem nostro an vel, ei feugiat forensibus duo. No alterum oportere erroribus vim, quot fabulas hendrerit ut vel. -
As HIV population grows older, diseases of aging a new dilemma
February 5, 2012
The longer life expectancy of those infected with HIV presents a new challenge for patients and health care providers. -
UCSF ALS Center’s founding director dies of the disease he studied
UC San Francisco
January 30, 2012
Richard K. Olney, MD, founding director of the ALS Treatment and Research Center at UCSF and a pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has died at age 64, following his own eight-year battle with the disease.
Pages
Press Releases
-
March 31, 2021
University of California Health (UCH) medical, nursing and public health schools achieved national recognition in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of Best Graduate Schools for 2022. The rankings are one measure of a school’s quality, and prospective students often refer to them when deciding where to apply.
-
February 9, 2021
University of California Health (UCH) and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) are launching an innovative data modeling consortium to ensure public health policy makers have timely, relevant analysis and insights to support pandemic-related decision making. -
December 7, 2020
The State of California has asked the University of California to lead an expansion of a smartphone-based COVID-19 exposure notification system recently tested at seven University of California campuses. Under this statewide program, researchers and entrepreneurs at UC San Diego Health who developed and led the pilot program will manage broadening the program for the State.
-
University of California Health launches human donor milk bank to help newborns
November 19, 2020
University of California Health has launched an innovative human milk bank to help improve the lives of newborns, infants and their families.
-
Your kid will love this: Lawrence Hall of Science's DIY Human Body app (for iPhone and iPad) helps kids discover how their bodies really work.