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Tamar and Vatche Manoukian’s philanthropy to support the Division of Digestive Diseases and key priorities in the David Geffen School of Medicine.

Distinguished professor of public health Jonathan Fielding says commonsense fixes to Medicare and FDA drug approval can lower the cost of lifesaving drugs.

UCLA-led study will offer scientists insights into how cells and organs work when people are ill and healthy.

UCLA study shows that people participating in workplace fitness programs also see improved mental health.

UCLA study shows that 42 percent of girls with ADHD were diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, compared with just 5 percent of girls without it.

The UCLA program has become the first program on the West Coast, and one of only seven centers nationwide, to achieve this milestone.

Gaining a better understanding the risks and benefits of antidepressant strategies in older adults could improve the quality of life of seniors.

New research suggests that our DNA holds the answer to why some people lead a perfectly healthy lifestyle and still die young.

UCLA-led study shows that stent retrievers can provide benefits more than seven hours after onset of a stroke.

UCLA scientists help create device that makes monitoring disease biomarkers easier and more cost-effective.

The discovery by UCLA researchers may help scientists develop effective therapies to prevent or reverse this common and often fatal disease.

UCLA-led researchers recommend development of new medications and new guidelines for treatment with different types and combinations of antibiotics.

The laboratory-grown tissue can be used to study diseases including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which has traditionally been difficult to study using conventional methods.

Window washers dressed as Batman, Captain America, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and the Hulk descended from the roof of Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to greet patients.

Hendey, who completed his internship in medicine and residency in emergency medicine at UCLA 23 years ago, served as chief of emergency medicine at UC San Francisco School of Medicine's Fresno campus.

Though the test reduces the number of women undergoing radiation, researchers say doctors and policy makers should further discuss the value of using Oncotype DX DCIS.

Spisso talks with U Magazine editor David Greenwald about the opportunities ahead for UCLA Health and her vision for the future.

The least developed human embryonic stem cells, or “naïve” pluripotent stem cells, consume more sugar than “primed” pluripotent stem cells, which are embryonic stem cells from later in development, researchers have discovered.

The findings could provide scientists with a better understanding of how the brain goes awry in conditions like learning disorders and social anxiety disorder.

Parents doing things like isolating a child from all activity or waking a child from sleep to check in could actually be making their child’s symptoms worse.

The discovery opens up a new avenue of research into autism’s causes and potential therapies.

UCLA researchers say that given the dominance of public spending in health care, a single-payer system might be more feasible than previously thought.

The technique involved amplifying a protein signal without using enzymes, which takes the process from two to four hours down to 10 minutes.

Scientists find new autism-linked gene, and discover that autistic siblings don’t always have the same disease-related mutations.

A 25-year-old man made remarkable progress following a treatment at UCLA that uses sonic stimulation to excite the neurons in the thalamus.