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Using a tumor rejection antigen to identify stem cells could help ensure stem cell research studies are accurate.

Launched in 2013, the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative will celebrate its successes and honor individuals who have helped to promote health in many different ways across the campus.

The results “have the potential to substantively change the way that lung cancer is treated,” said Dr. Edward Garon, a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Developed under the leadership of UCLA’s Dr. Antoni Ribas, the drug has signaled a paradigm shift in the way melanoma is treated.

The UCLA Center for World Health and its partners currently participate in 170 projects in 65 countries worldwide. It focuses not only on education, training and capacity building to improve health, but projects also include research and clinical care initiatives.

Using a new stent retriever device in addition to a clot-busting drug led to a significant increase in the percentage of stroke sufferers who could function independently three months later.

Only 9 percent of academic medical practices in the U.S. have procedures to connect patients with LGBT-competent physicians; only 4 percent had policies to identify those physicians.

UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology is holding its first-ever, grand-scale robotic surgical training sessions over two days, concluding today. 

When Karen Griffiths lost her 2-year-old son to leukemia in 1980, it opened her eyes to the compassionate role of pediatric nurses — a role she fills today at UCLA.

The research is another step toward the early diagnosis of CTE, a degenerative brain condition that affects athletes in contact sports who are exposed to repetitive brain injuries.

New research might explain why people with HIV develop age-related illnesses about 14 years before their peers who do not have the virus.

UCLA researchers showed that shock treatment changes certain areas of the brain that play a role in how people feel, learn and respond to environmental factors.

Triathlete Greg Parks and actor Larry Miller recently appeared at the Reagan UCLA Medical Center to share the experience of recovering from a major brain injury.

The study provides the most detailed information to date about the timing of the immune system’s recovery in school-age children with HIV.

The finding marks the final step in an international consortium’s successful effort to develop a unified and reliable approach to assessing signs of Alzheimer’s-related neurodegeneration through structural imaging tests.

UCLA Recreation's Bruin MoveMail sends out twice-a-day emails to get deskbound faculty and staff out of their office chairs and into better health.

To reach a vulnerable population largely unaware of the health risks, a team from the Fielding School of Public Health held small group discussions in more than 50 Los Angeles-area Korean churches.

Although the implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems to have helped, public health experts expect that Latinos will continue to have problems accessing high-quality health care.

The combination of two cancer-targeted therapies and immunotherapy helps a person’s immune system attack cancerous tumors and does so with fewer side effects.

A series of mental training exercises has been shown to help mitigate the effects of “chemo brain,” which affects up to 35 percent of women after their treatments for breast cancer.

The new program will provide opportunities for nurses and physicians to serve as full partners in health care redesign, improvement and research.

The doctors developed a predictive “calculator” called a nomogram after analyzing 30 years’ worth of data from liver transplants for people with liver cancer.

The study, led by UCLA’s Dr. Alan Kaplan, was the first to describe cost across the entire care process for the condition.

Inventors hope the device can help people battle obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other problems related to nutrition.

Born with a heart defect that couldn’t be fixed with surgery, a baby receives a heart transplant at 23 days old. Five-week-old Dravyn Johnson left Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA for home today with his mother.