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Results of UCLA report are the first from a national effort to reform public hospitals.

The assessment relies on clinical data and reputation surveys of health care providers to identify the top 50 programs in each of 10 disciplines.

The use of laboratory health information exchanges led to Latinos who are HIV-positive being more likely than whites to use anti-retroviral therapy.

The two organizations intend to establish a broader collaboration to strengthen their ability to offer the highest-quality care.

The research also found that women who had gonorrhea when they gave birth were nearly 20 times more likely to pass on CMV to their babies.

Hospital emergency rooms treat more than 170,000 children each year for sports-related traumatic brain injuries. What do parents and coaches need to know to protect their kids and players?

Results of the UCLA study could lead to new types of drugs, targeting the intestinal cells, to reduce people’s risk of heart attacks and strokes, or to treat other conditions linked to inflammation, including cancer.

An international team led by researchers from UCLA and Massachusetts General Hospital helped lead discovery of the first definitive genetic mutations.

The new consortium could not only help generate life-saving treatments, but also create significant economic activity from spin-off companies to licenses and collaborations with industry.

The UCLA International Medical Graduate Program offers education and certification to physicians who agree to provide services in underserved communities.

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs social welfare department provides lessons in social work and a diversity of experiences to first-year medical students.

By showing that stress levels can be quantified by a simple urine test, and that this test helps predict disease, this work could lead to strategies for prevention of coronary heart disease and heart attacks.

Findings help UCLA-led researchers better understand congenital Zika virus syndrome — a pattern of birth defects found among fetuses and babies infected with the virus.

The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is one of a handful of hospitals and clinics nationwide that offer a treatment that works in a fundamentally different way than drugs.

A panel of UCLA-appointed judges identified 10 of the most innovative proposals. Now members of the community can vote on the final four until Sunday, June 18.

UCLA researchers observed that mice with a form of autism had an inability to adapt to repeated whisker stimulation.

The initiative is “an excellent opportunity for UCLA Dentistry to further engage the Los Angeles community and improve oral health care for generations to come,” said the school’s dean, Dr. Paul Krebsbach.

Some 200 UCLA medical students received their diplomas Friday in Perloff Courtyard during the Hippocratic Oath Ceremony for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Researchers at UCLA have developed a molecular compound that improves balance and coordination in mice with the early stage of the disorder.

A team of UCLA scientists is testing an experimental drug that could one day result in a treatment for osteoporosis, which affects more than 200 million people worldwide.

Program funded by the entertainment executive and philanthropist helps UCLA attract top medical school prospects.

Traveling west to east and the number of time zones crossed seem to increase the severity of jet lag, explains Dr. Alon Avidan, who treats circadian rhythm disorders, among other sleep complaints.

Deletions or duplications of DNA along 22nd chromosome hint at biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric disorders.

Test developed by UCLA researchers would help physicians determine which people may be more treatable with an antibiotic that has not been recommended since 2007.

UCLA researchers found that women and men exhibit different changes in their brain’s reward centers, which suggests different reasons for overeating.