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

The Department of Defense grant will support Dr. Randolph Steadman and his research team in developing technology to help health care trainees refine clinical decision-making and teamwork skills.

First-year medical students enrolled in Doctoring 1 join in hospital chaplain rounds.

The finding could help reduce the number of deaths from drug-resistant infections — currently about 700,000 each year.

Mellinkoff, who transformed the fledgling UCLA School of Medicine into a nationally recognized academic institution, died on July 17 at age 96.

When Luz Corona Gomez picked up her M.D. degree last June from UCLA's medical school, her parents and four sisters proudly celebrated with her. All five daughters in this family of farmworkers have college degrees.

Witte’s accomplishments include impactful scientific discoveries, advocacy for science education funding and exemplary leadership.

A prominent neuroscientist, Martin became interim dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in September 2015.

A UCLA study shows that the drug pembrolizumab also has fewer side effects than traditional treatments.

Prescribing antibiotics to patients who don’t need them can create problems so how do we get doctors to change their behaviors? Start by remembering that doctors are human, so not always perfectly rational.

The new technique uses penny-sized microfluidic chips that are equipped with minuscule DNA “bar codes,” which are no bigger than a single cell.

UCLA-led study finds that drugs commonly used to combat the condition actually increase the risk of fracture, meaning that taking them is worse than doing nothing at all.

Thyrosim can be used by clinicians, researchers and educators to gauge the impacts of thyroid treatments and to develop more effective remedies for thyroid problems.

Technique developed at UCLA automatically readjusts drug-dose combinations to zero in on the most effective ones.

Pandemonium broke out today, Match Day, on the terrace at Covel Commons when 165 medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ripped open envelopes to find out where they have been accepted for residency.

Discovery is an important step in the effort to better understand and treat aggressive childhood leukemia.

Hendey will join the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on June 15.

Mangione will join a diverse group of national xperts working to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services.

Discovery provides scientists with critical information on the best way to create stem cells for purposes such as cell transplantation or organ regeneration.

Combination of two proteins could significantly improve clinical bone restoration.

An expert discussion jointly sponsored by UCLA and Zocálo, explored the ethical challenges around death that arise in an age of tremendous advances in medical treatment.

UCLA researchers found that PrEP for HIV prevention and aspirin for heart attack prevention both had similar low rates of serious side effects.

Researchers led by UCLA’s Dr. Edward Garon compared pembrolizumab to the chemotherapy drug docetaxel in a clinical trial involving more than 1,000 people.

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

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.