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an older man, at left, confers in a medical office with a doctor (at right) who is holding out a prescription vial.

“Altruistic” doctors put patients before profits — and achieve better results, study finds

October 11, 2024

man in glasses next to microscope looking into the camera

Bruce Ames, developer of a simple, widely used test to detect carcinogens, is dead at 95

October 10, 2024

Two people on a construction site talk, with a heart rate monitor line transposed on the lower part of the image, symbolizing the link between workplaces and health outcomes.

Racially balanced workplaces may protect employees against cardiovascular disease

October 4, 2024

a symmetric, oblong object covered with tiny patches of gray and bubble-gum yellows, blues, oranges and reds

Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?

October 2, 2024

Coches manejan a través de esmog en un autopista de California

California ha mejorado la calidad del aire, pero persisten las desigualdades raciales/étnicas

September 13, 2024

Cars drive through smoggy air on a California highway

California has dramatically improved its air quality, but racial disparities persist

September 11, 2024

A black and white illustration depicts an artist’s imagining of an aquifer, showing a large underground mass sprouting a collection of small arms that reach for the roots of plants growing above.

Can an aquifer be injured? Scholar brings a disability lens to ecological repair

August 22, 2024

an illustration showing firearm bullets, a city, and a community garden, as if to indicate the ways that gun violence is connected to the built environment and public policy

UC Berkeley course explores gun violence as a public health issue

August 13, 2024

doctor writing a prescription

Altered States: Will doctors soon prescribe ecstasy?

August 9, 2024

glowing green elongated worms cluster together like segments of an orange

Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?

August 7, 2024

an illustration showing tampons

UC Berkeley study finds arsenic, lead, other toxic metals in tampons

July 5, 2024

A close-up photo of a plant with a small white flower.

Can engineered plants help make baby formula as nutritious as breast milk?

June 13, 2024

An illustration of a brain with flowers growing out of it.

Psychedelics change how we see the world. A UC Berkeley study aims to find out why.

June 11, 2024

an illustration showing colorful microbes

Simple steps could prevent thousands of deaths from antimicrobial resistance every year

June 3, 2024

outlines in red of a woman's torso and four circles containing a thermometer, a face with a rash, a painful knee and a woman sleeping

Tracking down the genetic causes of lupus to personalize treatment

May 23, 2024

A dot of an orange sun is visible through thick smoke generated by the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe in 2021. Researchers are studying how smoke from fires like this can cause long-term health effects.

Wildfire smoke disproportionately affects California’s Indigenous communities, new research shows

February 29, 2024