Public health experts will convene for a half-day conference to discuss the two presidential candidates’ vastly different suggestions for health care reform and assess the impact of each.

The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is hosting a free public lecture by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, on the integrative medicine approach to eating disorders.

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.