People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and people whose mental abilities have declined, but don’t have MCI, appear to have similar changes in brain structure and function, according to a study at SF VA Medical Center.

A national research group headed by Michael Weiner, MD, director of the Center for the Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, has been granted a $6.04 million Biomedical Technology Research Centers (BTRC) Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Olympians and swimming enthusiasts will take part in Swim Across America’s third annual San Francisco Bay Area Open Water Swim.

UCSF researchers investigating the appropriate use of procedures to open narrowed coronary arteries -- such as angioplasty and stenting -- found that less than half of Medicare patients had documented noninvasive stress testing prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, the clinical name for such procedures.