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An intensive, multifaceted online prevention program can make such initiatives more accessible to those at risk for developing the disease.

Counties such as San Bernardino, Riverside and Fresno could see public health care take a bigger bite of their budgets, the study reports.

The study could lead to new treatments for a range of advanced epithelial cancers such as lung, prostate and bladder cancers.

The recommendations are based on a comprehensive review of the science related to pediatric concussions.

The findings provide additional evidence that the processing of social rewards by people with schizophrenia is disrupted, researchers say.

Findings from a UCLA-led study may ultimately lead to new ways to treat psychiatric disorders, including obsessive compulsive disorder, at their root.

Despite a 62 percent minority population with high rates of poverty, low education and lack of insurance — all factors expected to lead to high mortality rates and negative health outcomes — California’s health profile was significantly better than the nation’s as a whole.

Many patients and doctors are unaware how new therapies can improve quality of life.

The analysis shows that legal status plays a significant role in a person’s ability to access services.

Confusion about insurance coverage, limited access to doctors and lack of consumer awareness about vaccines are among the barriers to immunization.

Findings from the UCLA study could lead to new treatments for patients.

The findings open the door to future study about whether specific interventions, such as changes to diet, could affect brain function and thus affect the desire to overeat or to eat when not hungry.

They can be forced to move far from their social and medical networks to find rentals they can afford; they may end up in substandard housing; or — at worst — homeless, the paper’s authors say.

A UCLA team has developed a set of outcome measures using a software program that aggregates the latest research and expertise about how to treat conditions.

The research, the first of its kind, also suggested that two new tests could help diagnose the condition, called autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.

The psychologists demonstrate for the first time that when forced to choose between a parent and a close friend on a decision with financial consequences, young adults are more likely to choose the parent.

The early work demonstrates the promise of so-called “mechanoceuticals."

Greg Bryant, a professor of communication, studies the nature of laughter — and what it reveals about the evolution of human communication and cooperation.

UCLA Anderson Review: Do today and yesterday and tomorrow loom large in your thinking, with the more distant past and future barely visible on the horizon? That’s not unusual.

The findings open up possibilities for new therapies to treat such conditions as osteoporosis and skeletal aging.

The study is the first to examine intergenerational behavioral effects of adverse childhood experiences.

Two discoveries — one in the brains of people with heroin addiction and the other in the brains of sleepy mice — shed light on chemical messengers that regulate sleep and addiction, UCLA researchers say.

An emotion called ‘kama muta’ is typically accompanied by moist eyes or tears, chills or goosebumps, a warm feeling in the body, a feeling of exhilaration and a motivation to help others.

The next step is to determine why the numbers are so low and find ways to increase those rates of testing.

The study is the first to establish a link between susceptibility to seizures and the gut microbiota — the 100 trillion or so bacteria and other microbes that reside in the human body’s intestines.