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The five-year award is intended to fund a research project that addresses the needs of both patients and caregivers.

The statistical analysis software the researchers have designed is more precise and reliable than previous methods.

UCLA research could help scientists unravel the reasons that low-birthweight babies face a higher risk of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease as adults.

Half of those admitted to juvenile justice facilities before their teenage years reported suicidal thoughts as adults, according to a new study by UCLA researchers.

The findings of this study could lead to the creation of new treatments for speech problems in people, including children with autism.

The effort helps people continue getting good treatment after they get out of jail — and helps make sure they stay on their anti-HIV medications.

Housed inside the California NanoSystems Institute, Magnify helps startups succeed by providing access to equipment and entrepreneurial networking.

UCLA Anderson’s Elisa Long, informed by personal experience, parses data to help those mulling mastectomy and gynecological surgeries to reduce cancer risk.

The UCLA-led study will help scientists better understand the debilitating condition.

The UCLA-led research suggests that the ‘unexpected’ reason is a jump in heart disease risk for whites.

Compared with mice that did not receive an experimental drug called CSA13, mice treated with the drug were significantly more likely to survive the infection and had lower rates of weight loss.

The focus of the program, which is designed for working professionals, is to translate research into advanced clinical practice.

Three fact sheets recommend that legislators enact changes to help patients and survivors — particularly low-income women — who face serious obstacles to care.

UCLA chemistry professor helped develop Erleada, which was recently approved by the FDA for treating an especially lethal form of prostate cancer.

The new method uses 'nanospears' to deliver genes directly to patient cells. Gene therapy has shown great promise as a treatment for a host of diseases, including hemophilia and certain types of cancer.

Approximately 505,000 hip replacements and 723,000 knee replacements were performed in the U.S. in 2014.

Conditions such as higher blood pressure and glucose levels were especially pronounced among older homeowners and people still in the work force.

UCLA-led research shows more than 550 payments for ecosystem services programs are active worldwide with more than $36 billion in annual transactions.

The study appears to be the first to underscore significant clinical differences between men and women with the condition, and points to the need for different treatment approaches to address these varied symptoms.

UCLA-led research shows Earth may be approaching a carbon dioxide threshold for melting ice in the Arctic.

These “superlattices” could lead to improved and new classes of electronics, from transistors to LEDs.

The scientists have shown in their research on mice that increasing levels of a protein could make immune cells more effective at fighting disease.

The research is the first of its kind to compare results between radiotherapy treatments that are higher than the standard dose and traditional treatments, such as radiation and prostatectomy.

UCLA researchers discovered that these patients had a number of unmet psychological and health information needs, particularly during the first three months after their diagnoses.

If the findings are replicated, measuring levels of interleukin 6 could help doctors decide which patients with depression would be best suited for treatment with ECT.