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.

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.

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.

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.

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

New UCSF Faculty, July 2009

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.

Scientists have identified a gene that is essential for embryonic stem cells to maintain their all-purpose, pluripotent state. Exploiting the finding may lead to a greater understanding of how cells acquire their specialized states and provide a strategy to efficientlyreprogram mature cells back into the pluripotent state, an elusive step in stem cell research but one crucial to a range of potential clinical treatments.