This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class ...

Until the late 1960s, X-ray machine operators were trained to give Black people higher doses of radiation than they did for white people. When this fact came to light during 1968 U.S. congressional ...

As a child growing up in China, I was always aware of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is what we refer to as Eastern medicine, in contrast to the Western medicine we know from U.S. hospitals.

Technologists often imagine a future of health in which AI delivers highly personalized, preemptive guidance, powered by dense, dynamic streams of data. Continuous sensors track physiology and ...

In a recent review published in the journal Frontiers in Science, researchers underline the need for multidisciplinary collaboration in medicine, particularly in transmissible illnesses, ...

Though experienced in treating gunshot wounds, they had never received dozens of patients with multiple injuries from semi-automatic rifles. Bullets from these can travel three times as fast as those ...