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In 2008, when Courtney Young was in high school, her cousin, then just a toddler, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research scholars discuss how the Biden administration can use research to improve immigrant health.

UCLA experts say the effort, which includes complying with rules for masking and distancing, will take vigilance on the part of schools, students and families.

UCLA’s Dennis Lettenmaier and colleagues found that mosquito populations would have been around 40% higher without water-use mandates.

The Ginsburg Center builds on teamwork among scientists and physicians to advance research, enhance patient care for genetic conditions.

UCLA Health experts lay out the facts: The vaccines are 95% effective, almost everyone should get them, and they cannot give you the disease.

The study found that those who have stayed in during the pandemic were 37% more likely to feel anxious than those who haven’t.

The UCLA-Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pathways to Success Program has enrolled more than 125 students from underrepresented backgrounds.

Health experts emphasized that vaccines cannot cause a COVID-19 infection, nor alter a recipient’s DNA.

For patients and their families, this “means the world,” said UCLA professor of psychology and neurosurgery Martin Monti.

The Center for Neighborhood Knowledge is bolstered by people’s contributions and their commitment to doing good

Members of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force updated faculty and staff on the progress of UCLA Health’s vaccination program and to take questions.

A UCLA research team developed a possible way to impart long-term relief by inducing an active state of immune tolerance.

Leadership made the decision in the best interests of reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission.

Research brief: Scientists have discovered how one of the toxins released by the C. difficile bacterium spurs excessive inflammation in the gut.

Research brief: Improving imaging processes will lead to more successful treatments and help reduce morbidity in men with the disease.

A UCLA-led study used 3D-printed ‘blood vessels’ to identify a possible link between coronavirus and stroke.

The Center for LGBTQ Advocacy, Research & Health will conduct interdisciplinary research and collaborate with partners in Los Angeles and beyond.

About 480 health care workers are expected to be vaccinated today.

UCLA leadership, faculty, staff and students displayed the resiliency, creativity and ingenuity that embody our values.

Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez won a Nobel Prize, we were the No. 1 public university again, faculty carried on with important research and students continued to achieve the amazing.

The two-year online program will be the first of its kind in the University of California system.

Despite the pandemic, UCLA Dentistry students and faculty found a way to continue their mission of promoting oral health in the community.

Kristen Choi says doctors and nurses should be prepared to discuss side effects with patients and reassure them about the vaccine’s safety.

UCLA’s Dr. Arjun Deb said the same model could also help researchers learn more about other similar viruses that might emerge in the future.