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University of California medical centers and physicians are playing an important part in helping increase access to health care through the federal Affordable Care Act.   The law is expected to expand health insurance coverage to millions of...

Because such infections are the most common reason for antibiotic use among all children, the costs associated with them are under more scrutiny than ever by health care and government administrators.

The two-and-a-half-year UCLA study found that the protein expression of a typical gene is influenced by many more genetic variants than previously thought.

Researchers also found that black patients tend to fare worst after diagnosis, while Asians and Hispanics survive the longest with the disease.

The online master’s degree program at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been ranked the No. 2 online engineering program in the country by U.S. News and World Report.   UCLA is the highest-ranked...

  There’s something smelly about researcher Christina Agapakis’ recent work — which is just as she intended.Emitting odors that range from fragrant to fetid are nearly a dozen one-of-a-kind, designer cheeses that Agapakis, a...

Dariush Divsalar, UCLA adjunct professor of electrical engineering, has been selected for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Alexander Graham Bell Medal, for, "fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of channel ...

Camping out in comfort. Students stake their claim to the best seats for the Jan. 9 men's basketball game between UCLA and No. 1-ranked Arizona. Photo by Christelle Snow, UCLA. Several hundred students camped out (one group even had a big-screen...

Jarrahi is among 102 scientists and engineers to receive this year's award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on researchers in the early stages of their careers.

Telling a crop-fertilizing strain from its potential bioterrorist-agent cousin is tricky, said researchers whose bioinformatics analysis shed light on the Burkholderia bacteria genus.

"Many of these are the first rocks that formed anywhere in the solar system," curator John Wasson said of the gallery's 1,500 meterorite specimens.

Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA. She is the past chair of the history department and past chair of Afro-American Studies. Her books include the award-winning "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave...

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. surgeon general's first report on the hazards of lighting up, there's good news about nurses who smoke: There are a lot less of them.

Lee Baca, Los Angeles County sheriff since 1998, is expected to announce his retirement amid a federal investigation into abuse and misconduct by his department at Los Angeles County jails. UCLA has faculty with related expertise.

Dr. Jody Heymann is dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and distinguished professor of epidemiology, medicine and public policy at UCLA. Prior to this, she held a Canada Research Chair in...

While some oft-cited labor statistics suggest that the average American worker will have as many as seven careers over his or her lifetime, many researchers say that number is implausibly high. But Dr. James I. Ausman has come close.   In the...

Fowler Out Loud will feature a free concert by jazz trio The Chrio on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. The Chrio is led by jazz studies major Harmony Chua, with bass from Nashir Janmohamed and drums by David Laudicina. The Chrio will improvise on themes...

Join the UCLA Film and Television Archive in celebrating the career of Emmy-award winning director Robert Butler at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 24. Butler, who directed pilot episodes of such series as "Hogan’s Heroes," "Star Trek"...

What is the role of art in the public sphere? The destruction of Diego Rivera’s mural for the RCA Building in New York City is one of the best known examples of censorship in the United States.

The research, showing that we perceive risk-seeking individuals to be taller and stronger than those who are risk-averse, may have implications for law enforcement, the prison system and the military.

Did you end up enrolled in the wrong medical plan for 2014?   UC made significant changes to its medical plan offerings for 2014, and some faculty and staff who did not make selections during Open Enrollment may have been defaulted to a plan...

Doctors caring for Ariel Sharon, the 85-year-old former general and prime minister of Israel who has been in a vegetative state since suffering a brain hemorrhage in 2006, say the leader is nearing death as his organs fail. UCLA experts can discuss Sharon's military and political legacy, as well as his physical condition.