public health

UCLA and the Los Angeles LGBT Center have developed a risk calculator that could help men who have sex with men decide whether to take pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Misuse of prescription and illicit drugs is so prevalent in Tijuana and East Los Angeles that community clinics in those areas should routinely, though discreetly, screen for it.

Nearly half of 125 pregnancies studied resulted in defects among newborns or ended in fetal death.

A simple and inexpensive attachment could help to expand testing to regions with limited resources.

The California Health Interview Survey data show the rate of uninsured Californians fell to a new low in 2015, and fewer Californians cited cost as a reason to skip needed medical care.

Experts from the UCLA School of Dentistry and Fielding School of Public Health make recommendations based on UCLA-First 5 LA program achievements.

The study is released as the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

A special edition of the International Journal for Equity in Health, guest edited by UCLA professor James Macinko, analyzes the nation’s progress in reducing a large gap in access to care.

Research co-authored by UCLA professor Mark Kaplan attempted to explain how different aspects of an economic downturn affect suicide rates and alcohol-related suicides in particular.

Education hasn’t done enough, the experts say, so penalizing behavior via taxes might work better to get people to stop drinking the empty calories.

The UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program is training residents to qualify for jobs testing and handling hazardous waste materials in a multimillion-dollar cleanup of lead dust contamination.

Because the U.N. peacekeepers introduced cholera to Haiti, it’s imperative that the United Nations do whatever it can to prevent the disease from further ravaging the country.

Professor Jonathan Fielding writes that without the necessary funds, fighting Zika, Ebola and other infectious diseases is a losing battle.

UCLA and Inter-American Development Bank study finds progress toward universal health coverage, but persistent gaps in how citizens assess the quality and effectiveness of primary care.

UCLA researchers find that while a majority of adults do not get a flu shot each year, Koreans and Vietnamese have highest rates, African-Americans lowest.

Grassroots outreach efforts are cited for participation in signing end-of-life documents, but there is room for improvement, a UCLA-led study finds.

UCLA’s Dr. Jonathan Fielding chaired panel whose report called for increased coordination both within the Department of Health and Human Services and across federal agencies.

As Americans struggle with obesity and diabetes, UC researchers say that new nutrition labels could help consumers change their shopping choices and ultimately their diets.

An innovative program that serves low-income and uninsured children in Los Angeles has more than tripled preventive dental visits for children from birth to age 5, according to a new UCLA policy brief.

UCLA researchers conducted the most comprehensive global study to date of constitutional protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Prescription drug monitoring programs and laws aimed at preventing opioid abuse are not doing much to stem this growing threat to public health.

UCLA students study aging through a prism of disciplines, from biology through public health, and interact with older adults.

Wayne Wong spent three years at UCLA studying microbiology and globalization, never suspecting that he would soon be facing issues he studied and discussed in the classroom in Uganda.

Over many years, UCLA researchers have learned that families change their behavior when they get live interactive training sessions with the familiar staff at their child’s Head Start school.

Social work professor Mark Kaplan found that an increase in high-risk drinking during the Great Recession may explain the rise in alcohol-related suicides by men — but not women.