Clinic on the Verge
“Well,” says Dawn Harbatkin, medical director of Lyon Martin Health Services, “we’re a community clinic. I’ve never known a community clinic that didn’t operate on the edge. Health care for adults...
View ArticleMission Neighbors Vow to Save Beloved UCSF Clinic
This story originally appeared on KQED.org Facing a budget in the red and a loss of patients, UC San Francisco officials plan to close a beloved family planning clinic for low-income teens and young...
View ArticlePlans to Close UCSF Youth Clinic Put on Hold (KQED)
A reproductive health clinic serving San Francisco’s Mission District that is threatened with closure will stay open another year, UCSF officials say. The New Generation Health Center serves primarily...
View ArticleThreatened with closure, UCSF youth health center finds new home
Imperiled by a loss of funding and an expiring lease, a year of uncertainty about the future of the New Generation Health Center ended this week with relatively good news for its staff and patients –...
View ArticleThese UCSF medical residents don’t want guns or Tasers in hospitals
A crowd of some 60 UCSF medical residents, students and faculty laid their bodies down in front of San Francisco General Hospital Monday evening during a “die-in” demonstration that challenged the role...
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Once obscure, UCSF medical ‘grand rounds’ become fountain of newest COVID-19...
On Feb. 2, after thousands of depressed San Franciscans sauntered home following the 49ers’ Super Bowl loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, it suddenly became Game Time for UC San Francisco doctors — and,...
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A look inside UCSF’s hand sanitizer factory
The Shokat Lab at UC San Francisco’s Genentech Hall in Mission Bay is ordinarily a hive of scientists working to develop cancer therapies. But since the coronavirus pandemic shut down most...
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UCSF’s noon grand rounds: A slow reopening, racial disparities and no quick...
We’re a long way from an effective treatment for COVID-19. That means going to see a Warriors game is unlikely to happen in the next year and, when the city begins to reopen, it will happen on a...
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Anti-viral remdesivir, Wall Street’s darling, may not even work against COVID-19
The Dow Jones surged more than 700 points Friday — sparked largely by what investors saw as a promising study on remdesivir, an anti-viral drug and possible COVID-19 treatment by Gilead Sciences. As it...
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Coronavirus in the Mission: Testing 5,700 people in one week might be harder...
The coronavirus testing that will begin in a section of the Mission District on Saturday will be the most ambitious testing effort attempted in San Francisco since the pandemic arrived in early March....
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What you should know about the Mission District COVID-19 test
En Espanol Some Mission residents we’ve talked to said they were reluctant to participate in the COVID-19 test that will be launched this weekend. As we talked with one of the residents — we’ll call...
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UCSF grand rounds: A faster COVID-19 test and the changing businesses of...
Returning to normal life is an inevitability, however slowly it may arrive. That may happen when enough testing becomes available — especially if that testing is on-demand and can be delivered to your...
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Mission District mass COVID-19 testing could blow up the city’s data. But...
The Mission District mass testing effort that will run from today to Tuesday is ambitious in its scope. It aims to test some 2,000 to 6,000 individuals in a city that, to date, has only tested fewer...
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In the city’s biggest study to date, researchers test 4,204 people in the...
Update, Wednesday, April 29, 5:54 p.m. In an extraordinary effort, UCSF researchers and volunteers tested 4,204 people over four days who live or work in the Mission District, according to Diane...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: A contact tracing army, and dispatches from a New York...
The medical community is working furiously to develop measures that may become mainstream in a post-shelter-in-place world. Maybe Remdesivir, an anti-viral drug and possible treatment for COVID-19,...
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Preliminary results of Mission COVID-19 tests show 95 percent of positive...
The preliminary results from the UCSF study that tested 4,160 people who live or work in the Mission District show that 95 percent of those who tested positive for COVID-19 were Latinx. Those who...
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UCSF’s Medical Grand Rounds offers a ‘sobering’ picture of the coronavirus...
It’s Thursday noon, and time for UCSF’s Medical Grand Rounds on COVID-19. Grab a cup of tea or a stiff drink. We may think the pandemic is subsiding, but Thursday’s 90-minute update was grim....
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UCSF Medical Grand Rounds: In New York, SF doctors witnessed chaos and ‘death...
UCSF doctors who provided support to New York City’s hospitals gave a candid briefing of their experience during Thursday afternoon’s Medical Grand Rounds: At times, they had no idea what they were...
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UCSF Medical Grand Rounds: The doctor is ready to send children back to...
The roller coaster of the scientific community’s COVID-19 pandemic response was on full display during UCSF’s 90-minute Grand Rounds Thursday afternoon, as scientists provided the latest on treatments,...
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UCSF Medical Grand Rounds: Pushing the speed limit on papers and vaccines
Speed was the theme of this week’s UCSF Grand Rounds: the speed of peer-reviewed publication, the speed of new drug approval, the speed of vaccine development. One of the most central issues in this...
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