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Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa Alvarez, the formerly conjoined Guatemalan twins who were  separated in 2002 in a landmark 23-hour surgery, returned to Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to visit sick children.

Eunice Lee is the architect of KIM-CHI, a community-based program that induces more Korean-American immigrant women to get breast cancer screenings.

The findings could be an important step toward personalized medicine for women with the disease, said UCLA’s Dr. Patricia Ganz.

Of the 47 geographical areas the researchers analyzed, 20 had significantly higher percentages of people with advanced-stage disease than the U.S. norm.

Logic would suggest that millions of years of evolution would have perfected spatial localization in humans. A new UCLA study helps explain why that’s not the case.

The UCLA Goldberg Migraine Program will be led by Dr. Andrew Charles, who says the donation will enable scientists to develop new therapies and provide the best possible care for migraine sufferers.

Two former football players who are now studying at UCLA School of Nursing are part of a trend of more men pursuing nursing careers.

Technique allows researchers to test many different small molecules at once.

The discovery could point the way toward new drugs that slow or stop the disease from spreading.

These laws were intended to control the spread of the virus but an analysis of data show that they’ve had a punitive effect on people they were meant to protect.

Less than 5 percent of men who chose to forgo aggressive treatment are being monitored as closely as they should be

The platform will be designed to use information about users’ previous asthma attacks to alert them when conditions might be right for another one.

Therapy targets not cancer cells but macrophages, a special type of immune cell, in order to prevent them from helping the cancer take root in the abdomen.

UC Global Food Initiative researchers recently published a report highlighting ways UC research, including a study at UCLA, has been used to inform or affect policies in food and agriculture.

Dylan Miceli-Nelson, 14, and his “co-stars” Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson headline a video for an online humor site to help raise awareness and money to fight the deadly disease.

Recovery has at least as much to do with rewarding oneself as it does with depriving oneself, according to a new book by a UCLA expert in addiction treatment.

The therapy shows great promise for extending the lives of people with an advanced form of the disease, and it does so without causing a secondary skin cancer, a side effect seen in some patients who took only one of the drugs.

UCLA-led research team suggests that aberrations in bone structure or strength could be behind this increased fracture risk.

The $2.3 million award will support work to develop methods for recording the activity of intact neural networks in living animals.

Dr. Thomas Klitzner, a UCLA professor of pediatric cardiology, said the findings could help identify high-risk patients so doctors can provide a higher level of support.

American Academy of Pediatrics gives $4.1 million to help more families nationwide manage their health needs.

For the first time, researchers have described the cost throughout the entire treatment process — from the initial doctor’s visit to follow-up appointments.

If laughter is the best medicine, then kids staying at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA got a healthy dose during a Halloween celebration filled with giggles and smiles.

The effort will encompass a 100,000-person study to discover the causes of depression, a new treatment center and a community outreach program.

The five-year study was the first to identify growth differentiation factor 10, a molecule that previously had no known role in the adult brain.