Patient Care

2022 Koda-Kimble Seed Awards fuel the School’s most innovative ideas

Tue Apr 5, 2022

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, former dean of the School of Pharmacy

This year’s Seed Awards will support projects ranging from the discovery sciences and patient care to sustainability and diversity, equity, and inclusion

Residencies open the door for diverse careers in pharmacy

Fri Mar 4, 2022

Eugene Burbige, PharmD, left, and Francesca Alcala, PharmD, both pursued specialties in pharmacy via UCSF residencies.

Newly-minted pharmacists gain specialized skills through residencies.

From haircuts to high blood pressure management

Thu Feb 17, 2022

Two pharmacists walking past two barbers and their clients in a barbershop

Elisabeth Fall

Crystal Zhou, PharmD, carrying a box of COVID-19 vaccines, walks into the Chicago 2 Barbershop alongside Sarah Chong, PharmD. The two pharmacists are collaborating with the Cut Hypertension Program to provide health care services free of charge to barbershop clients.

Crystal Zhou, PharmD, teams up with the Cut Hypertension Program to provide medication management and COVID vaccines in Black-owned barbershops.

Medicare may restrict coverage of Alzheimer’s drug

Fri Jan 21, 2022

UCSF researchers develop a new drug regimen to combat malaria in children

Thu Dec 16, 2021

Child sitting on a bed surrounded by a bed net

UK Department for International Development

A child sits on a bed surrounded by a bed net intended to prevent mosquito bites that could transmit malaria, Kenya. A new drug regimen developed at UCSF offers children improved protection against the disease.

Study shows that monthly doses of two common anti-malarial drugs for the first few years of life can provide 95 percent protection against the disease.

UCSF pharmacy students vaccinate Dean Guglielmo against the influenza virus

Mon Nov 8, 2021

Sarah de Jesus and Kera Jewett

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) student Lynna Davis, Class of 2023, administers the flu vaccine to Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD.

PharmD students organized the annual Vaccinate the Dean event and administered the influenza vaccine to Dean Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD.

New Alzheimer’s drug is for those with mild cognitive impairment. But who has that disorder?

Fri Oct 8, 2021

Data-driven drug dosing speeds tuberculosis treatment to four months

Mon Aug 30, 2021

NIAID/NIH

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis

A large trial of a new drug regimen for tuberculosis, designed in part by School researchers, leads to a new WHO recommendation for treating the disease.

An animal dewormer to treat COVID? Poison control centers see uptick in calls; stores sell out

Fri Aug 27, 2021

PharmD students assess furnishing of HIV medication at local pharmacies

Wed Aug 25, 2021

Medication bottles on shelves in a pharmacy

PharmD students assess pharmacist furnishing of HIV medications under California's SB-159

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