UCSF doctor explains level of coronavirus risk and steps to take to avoid infection
Dr. Maria Raven, the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UC San Francisco, spoke to Mornings on 2 The Nine about what people in the Bay Area should know about their own risk to the coronavirus.
Bay Area infectious disease specialist develops coronavirus test with rapid results
A Bay Area infectious disease specialist has developed a test for coronavirus that cuts in half the time it takes to diagnose the illness from current testing methods.
San Francisco hospital cares for two coronavirus patients
A San Francisco hospital is treating two patients from another California county who previously contracted the coronavirus, health officials said in a news release Monday.
UCSF professor developing diagnostic test for new coronavirus
The lab at U.C. San Francisco's Mission Bay campus is a battleground in the race to understand and restrain the new coronavirus that first surfaced in Wuhan, China last month.
Helping families on Giving Tuesday
Leah Carroll, a patients at UCSF, joins us with her mom, Lindsay Bolin
One-on-one with UCSF garbology researcher
UCSF researcher Jeremiah Mock explains how he sifted through garbage to see what kids were smoking and vaping.
UCSF researchers sift through garbage in parking lots to find out what kids are smoking
The garbology study, published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality weekly report, also highlighted differences among students with different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Amber Lee reports
UCSF: Daily e-cigarette use can double risk of heart attack
A new UCSF study provides evidence that e-cigarettes may be more of a health risk than first thought. Amber Lee reports.
Marines take time out of Fleet Week to visit sick children in hospital
About a dozen U.S. Marines and Blue Angels took time out from their normal Fleet Week duties to visit with some sick children at a San Francisco hospital on Tuesday.
Oakland students benefit from Benioff hospital apprenticeship
Some high school students on summer break are getting a lesson in construction as they work on an expansion at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.