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A team of researchers identified a gene mutation protective against Covid-19, with carriers up to eight times more likely to experience asymptomatic infection.

At least 97% of the blood samples contained a type of PFAS known as PFOS, associated with multiple serious health problems

Many cities have devoted considerable focus and money to house people, only to see the number living outside continue to rise.

After sifting through 7.8million genetic variants, one was found to be associated with faster disease progression

After sifting through 7.8million genetic variants, one was found to be associated with faster disease progression

The global study included data from more than 22,000 people with MS.

Researchers found that two regions of the brain produce brain waves associated with chronic pain. Each participant in their study had a unique signature for pain.

Diagnosed with a shingles infection in late February, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is now hospitalized and undergoing treatment at a San Francisco hospital.

UC's health system is renewing contracts with hundreds of outside clinics — many with religious affiliations

It’s shameful that it took decades for UC San Francisco to acknowledge and publicly apologize for faculty members who conducted unethical experiments on hundreds of men incarcerated at a medical facility in Northern California. Only now has the institution begun reckoning with its dark history of medical experimentation on inmates.

The University of California, San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in the 1960s and '70s on prisoners, some of whom were mentally ill. In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.