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UCLA study shows men and women had opposite responses in a part of the brain related to emotions and blood pressure control during blood pressure trials.

Officers Daniel Guajardo and Paul Wells were responding to a burglary alarm when they found themselves facing an entirely different predicament: a life-or-death medical emergency.

Dr. Bartly Mondino of the Jules Stein Eye Institute writes that a proposal in the state legislature to permit optometrists to perform eye surgeries risks far too much harm.

UCLA is sending 28 Olympians to Brazil so far. Incoming freshman Mallory Pugh is the youngest member of the U.S. women's soccer team.

Guided by the findings of an in-depth University of California survey, UC President Janet Napolitano has approved $3.3 million in new funding over the next two years to help students regularly access nutritious food on campus and off, UC announced ...

Researchers found that advertising placed on the app has a high potential to reach untested high-risk populations and reduce the spread of HIV.

To Natalie Duran, a research assistant with UCLA Health, competing on NBC’s hit super-obstacle course is a natural step in her work as a role model for young girls.

Incoming UCLA freshman Madison Kocian was selected to the 2016 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team after a world-class showing on the uneven bars.

An innovative organ donation program initiated at UCLA is now being adopted by other medical centers across the United States.

Ren Mao, director of application development, died July 4 in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 37 years old. 

Richard Wain Young, 86, professor emeritus of anatomy, died May 18 surrounded by family members at his home in Hollywood. For more than 55 years, he worked at the medical school at UCLA and published his last book, “Human Origins and Evolution,” in 2014.

UCLA alumna Billie Tsien and her husband, Tod Williams, will lead the design and engineering work needed to build the first presidential library that will be located in a predominantly African-American urban setting.

The study shows the effectiveness of using a vaccine to activate an immune response against advanced brain tumors and it could lead to promising treatments for people with glioblastoma.

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

This professor of art history and Chicana/o studies received the 2016 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, given by the Gold Shield Alumnae of UCLA to a mid-career faculty member with outstanding accomplishments.

"The Center Cannot Hold" tells the life story of Elyn Saks, professor of psychiatry and law, whose schizophrenic episodes began when she was in high school and worsened when she was a student at Yale Law School.

A towering eucalyptus tree fell across Charles E. Young Drive East on Thursday afternoon. No injuries were reported.

In the hands of artist and UCLA professor Judy Baca, the mural is a powerful teaching tool of L.A. history and student empowerment.

Burton is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,.

Hailing from nearly every county in California, 49 states and 81 countries, the students are the most ethnically, socioeconomically and geographically diverse admitted group in UCLA history.

The center offers therapeutic leisure activities, exercise classes, art therapy, cognition improvement strategies, and health and nutrition education to help MS patients.

Sixty-eight students studying in Europe this summer got the opportunity of a lifetime to see immediate reaction to the vote to leave the European Union.

UCLA urban planning professor Brian Taylor has been named National Associate of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, for his longtime service to the organization’s research board.

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.

Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl on how Sufi music — and especially the Sabri Brothers — have been bridging the divide between Islam and the West.