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The research is another step toward the early diagnosis of CTE, a degenerative brain condition that affects athletes in contact sports who are exposed to repetitive brain injuries.

New research might explain why people with HIV develop age-related illnesses about 14 years before their peers who do not have the virus.

UCLA researchers showed that shock treatment changes certain areas of the brain that play a role in how people feel, learn and respond to environmental factors.

New compact, reliable energy storage devices outperform batteries by holding larger amounts of energy, recharging more quickly and lasting for longer recharge cycles.

The moon does not influence the timing of human births or hospital admissions, a new UCLA study finds, confirming what scientists have known for decades.

Of 85 UCLA undergraduate students, only one correctly recalled the Apple logo when asked to draw it on a blank sheet of paper. Fewer than half correctly identified the logo when shown several options.

Up to 57 percent of immigrants in California who are eligible under the executive actions are low-income and lack private health insurance, according to a study by UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers.

The study provides the most detailed information to date about the timing of the immune system’s recovery in school-age children with HIV.

The finding marks the final step in an international consortium’s successful effort to develop a unified and reliable approach to assessing signs of Alzheimer’s-related neurodegeneration through structural imaging tests.

The information collected from this statistically representative sample of transgender-identified individuals led by researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law could be used to help craft better public policy.

New treatment platform may solve some of the problems of treating pancreas cancer with chemotherapy.

Several new studies, one co-authored by a UCLA professor, show that transcription is in fact the most influential step in determining protein abundance.

To reach a vulnerable population largely unaware of the health risks, a team from the Fielding School of Public Health held small group discussions in more than 50 Los Angeles-area Korean churches.

Although the implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems to have helped, public health experts expect that Latinos will continue to have problems accessing high-quality health care.

UCLA researchers discovered that visual cues associated with overweight or obese people can influence one’s sense of smell.

“The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania” by UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology’s John Papadopoulos and Sarah Morris opens a window on a cradle of civilization.

The combination of two cancer-targeted therapies and immunotherapy helps a person’s immune system attack cancerous tumors and does so with fewer side effects.

Cloud of newly forming stars has one billion times the luminosity of our sun, but is invisible in ordinary light

The center, to be led by Michael Fanselow, will focus on brain health and developing novel methods to get the unhealthy brain back to the healthy state.

A series of mental training exercises has been shown to help mitigate the effects of “chemo brain,” which affects up to 35 percent of women after their treatments for breast cancer.

The doctors developed a predictive “calculator” called a nomogram after analyzing 30 years’ worth of data from liver transplants for people with liver cancer.

The study, led by UCLA’s Dr. Alan Kaplan, was the first to describe cost across the entire care process for the condition.

Inventors hope the device can help people battle obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other problems related to nutrition.

First quarterly report for 2015 says the U.S. economy “looks like an island of stability in a very volatile world.”

Research shows that the number of married same sex-couples nearly tripled since 2013 and a greater likelihood those couples will be raising adopted or foster children compared to different-sex couples.