health

Adrien Hamedi-Sangsari has pushed for more government funding for research, pro bono dental care and student loan relief.

Working alongside physicians and handling a slew of administrative tasks, the partners help doctors save time and give more direct attention to those they treat, a UCLA study shows.

Those patients with additional major medical conditions are more likely to die from something other than cancer, so radiation or surgery represent "a poor gamble," UCLA researchers say.

Diabetes adds an extra $1.6 billion dollars every year to hospitalization costs in California, with hospital stays for patients with the disease costing nearly $2,200 more than stays for non-diabetic patients.

A team led by UCLA researchers found that the brain's response to viewing sexual images is related to the number of sex partners a person has had in the previous year.

Marking its 50th year, the UCLA School of Dentistry is celebrating its five-decade rise to becoming one of the leading research-intensive dental schools in the nation with a yearlong celebration that will start this weekend.

They went to Capitol Hill when their project on epilepsy was selected to represent the best of undergraduate research in California.

Two new gifts will fund research in stem cell science and digestive diseases and support faculty recruitment at two of UCLA's renowned research centers.

Though health has improved for Latin Americans in recent decades childhood malnutrition, anemia and vaccine delivery problems persist.

The use of drugs and alcohol on campus was associated with significantly increased odds of depression, sexual victimization and attempted suicide.

Health ministry and other government and community officials from 10 Latin American nations will attend a two-day international conference organized by the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America.

A study conducted by a UCLA graduate student found that not only are consumers interested in having healthier items available in vending machines, but that offering them did not hurt the vending machines’ sales.

The combination of the female hormone estriol with a commonly used MS drug appears to lower the relapse rate by nearly 50 percent.

Researchers measured how and where the mutant gene huntingtin influences disease development in the brain cells of mice and causes brain atrophy.

Our national system for delivering high-quality cancer care is groaning under the weight of an increasing patient population, spiraling costs and an impending shortage of qualified providers. Cancer-care expert Dr. Patricia A. Ganz talks about the sweeping changes that must be made.

Technology already in use at UCLA would help prevent many cases of what is the third-leading cause of death in the United States.

People who take the cholesterol-lowering drugs appear to have developed a false sense of security that could lead to heart disease and other obesity-related illnesses, researchers say.

The UCLA Blum Center's Second Annual Spring Conference on May 6-7 will feature the latest research on health and poverty in Latin America and highlight solutions.

Researchers saw a jump in patients receiving a crucial clot-dissolving drug within the first 60 minutes after they arrive at a hospital emergency room.

The task force, which included UCLA's Dr. Gary Mathern, created a new definition that broadens the scope of the brain disease and expands the number of people who can be considered to have epilepsy.

A Los Angeles Marathon runner whose heart stopped during the race met his rescuers, including a team from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he was given specialized care that's available at only a few hospitals in the country.

Harry Winston, Inc., recently announced a $1 million pledge to the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute to establish the Harry Winston Fellowships.

The launch of the UCLA Center for World Health featured experts discussing "grand convergence," the concept that, with the right investments, people in rich and poor countries can enjoy long lives by the next generation.

Conducted in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand, the study showed that the HIV prevention efforts not only reduced new infections but also succeeded in prompting more people to be tested.

For women with advanced breast cancer who took the experimental drug palbociclib, the amount of time patients were on treatment without their cancer worsening was effectively doubled.