At PlaySafe's cardiac screening for high school athletes, doctors diagnosed 16-year-old Ryland Burke with a rare heart arrhythmia. After a non-invasive heart procedure at UCSF, Burke has caught four touchdowns for his football team this season. Watch Ryland's story.
Within months, a rare lung condition turned Clare Dowling from "normal college kid" and competitive equestrian to a desperately sick young woman, bedbound and waiting for a lung transplant. One year later, Dowling talks about learning how to breathe, walk and even ride again.
Alarmed by the epidemic of medical errors, Dr. Bob Wachter helped pioneer a new specialty in medicine: hospitalists, doctors charged with making hospitals safer and more efficient. Wachter talks about health care reform and patient safety.
Hear Dr. Tom Martin, a blood disorders specialist at UCSF, discuss how stem cell transplants along with new drug therapies have created dramatic improvements in the treatment of multiple myeloma, the second most common type of blood cancer.
UCSF Medical Center is one of the nation's top 10 hospitals for the 11th consecutive year, and the best in Northern California, according to the annual survey by U.S. News & World Report.
