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Prescribing antibiotics to patients who don’t need them can create problems so how do we get doctors to change their behaviors? Start by remembering that doctors are human, so not always perfectly rational.

L.A.’s only species of newt is showing signs of severe distress, troubling researchers and raising questions about the impacts of the drought and climate change.

Alison Wu, a graduate student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was last seen by her roommate April 10.

Professor Emeritus Dean Stoddard Worth died after a long illness on Feb. 29 at the age of 88 in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He retired from UCLA in 1994 after 37 years as a professor of Slavic languages.

Whether she’s studying Wall Street or Equatorial Guinea, Hannah Appel uses the lens of anthropology to understand how people create and make sense of their economic lives.

The findings also suggest that regardless of a person’s level of fat mass, a higher level of muscle mass helps reduce the risk of death.

    For more than 40 years, issues surrounding genetically modified organisms—GMOs—have been full of controversy, curiosity and confusion. On Tuesday, April 19, four experts will debate the environmental, social and health impacts of GMO foods.

More than 15,700 prospective students and their families sampled faculty lectures, toured residence halls and asked questions about life at UCLA.

A study by UCLA researchers demonstrates other benefits, too, among states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

With support from the UC Global Food Initiative, Savannah Gardner and Tyler Watson are leading efforts to bring fresh produce and healthy eating to cash-strapped Bruins.

High winds gusting at 45 and 50 miles per hour toppled a pine tree at UCLA sometime during the night and snapped a eucalyptus branch in Royce Quad.

A new study traces how a largely unfamiliar pathogen led to a global epidemic that has linked the virus to fetal brain-development disorders and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Fink, who received both a bachelor’s degree and M.B.A. from UCLA, is regarded as one of the most influential individuals in business and finance.

Daniel Pearl’s tragic death was only the first in a wave of violence that has targeted journalists all over the world, said Christiane Amanpour as she delivered the annual lecture given in memory of the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in Pakistan.

Economics professor Lee Ohanian co-writes an op-ed that criticizes Donald Trump’s ideas on international trade because they would lead to less commerce with the rest of the world.

UCLA will be abuzz with activity on Saturday, April 16, when an anticipated 14,000 prospective students and their families come to campus for Bruin Day.

The President’s Public Service Law Fellowships will award $4.5 million annually to students who want to pursue public interest legal careers but might otherwise — out of financial need — seek private sector jobs.

Eventually, doctors might be able to analyze the levels and types of patients’ intestinal bacteria and then prescribe probiotics to bolster the amount of bacteria with anti-inflammatory properties.

The device combines two components invented at UCLA: a photonic time stretch microscope and a deep learning computer program that identifies cancer cells with over 95 percent accuracy.

The new technique uses penny-sized microfluidic chips that are equipped with minuscule DNA “bar codes,” which are no bigger than a single cell.

Participants will have access to highly individualized, intensive treatment that draws on UCLA’s nationally recognized expertise in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and integrative medicine.

Already a leader in the field, UCLA will collaborate with five of the nation’s other top cancer centers in the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

The on-campus stadium, which will host men’s and women’s soccer in addition to club sports, will be named for Wallis Annenberg.

On Monday, April 11 the UCLA baseball program hosted Veteran Appreciation Day at Jackie Robinson Stadium, with more than 100 veterans from all across Southern California coming out to take part in the day’s activities.

A player for the Bruins in the 1990s, Roberts sat for a conversation with fellow alumnus Eric Karros and spoke with L.A. youth and veterans.