Supported by a new grant, sports injury specialist Brian Feeley will evaluate three innovative ACL reconstruction techniques, with the goal of improving surgical outcomes for pediatric patients.

Elders who maintained or increased their level of physical activity showed significantly less cognitive decline over seven years than those who were not active or whose activity levels declined during that time, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.

Older veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder were almost twice as likely to develop dementia as veterans without PTSD in a study of more than 180,000 veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.

Changes in the length of DNA on the tips of chromosomes from immune cells might be a good gauge of health and aging.

UCSF Chancellor Mike Bishop, MD, informed the campus community about the recommendations that UC President Mark Yudof will make at the next meeting of the UC Board of Regents at UCSF Mission Bay.

UCSF’s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) has recently published its 2009 Research Portfolio, a document summarizing its current research projects and important findings.

Members of the campus community who have not yet signed up to participate in AIDS Walk San Francisco have only a few days left to make a difference in the epidemic.

New UCSF Faculty, July 2009