Transjugular Interhepatic Portosystemic Shunts, or “TIPS,” is now a common alternative treatment for patients with cirrhosis and other forms of advanced liver disease. UCSF has become one of the leading teaching facilities where external interventional radiologists come to learn how to perform this alternative treatment.
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The T32 program exists to jumpstart the academic careers of junior radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians and to provide the essential foundation for developing a research program as an independent investigator.
The UCSF Department of Radiology would like to welcome Ronald Zagoria, M.D. as the new Chief of Abdominal Imaging.
A new study published in Radiology found that direct digital radiography (DDR), is the more effective digital mammography option when compared to computed radiography.
As National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month comes to a close, it’s important to remember that the disease is an increasingly important public health issue, and effective treatments to prevent fragility fractures are available.
Just this week, the New York Times published an op-ed by Angelina Jolie entitled 'My Medical Choice' on her decision to undergo a double mastectomy after discovering she was a carrier the “faulty” gene, BRCA1. The gene, which sharply increases a carriers risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, affects each of its female carriers differently.