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The study could pave the way for understanding and treating neurological disorders, and for developing computers that “think” more like humans.

UCLA researchers found that a combination therapy going after stem cells and chemotherapy resulted in better outcomes.

Dr. David Talan is on a research team that's studying whether treating appendicitis solely with antibiotics can be a safe, effective and less expensive alternative to surgery.

UCLA study shows that delivering weight-management services online offers a convenient way to produce substantial improvements in health, at a relatively low cost.

Manipulating the stiffness or softness of T cells could help doctors harness the immune system to control disease.

The researchers identified genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, depression and several other disorders.

The Companion Care Program provides specially trained volunteers who offer individualized companionship to older adult patients while they are hospitalized.

Twenty-three high school students are getting a unique opportunity to launch their future careers in the health care field, thanks to a new hands-on internship program.

New recommendations are needed in part because people with cancer are living longer thanks to improved treatments, giving tumors more time to spread to other parts of the body.

Researchers found that exposure to the pollution caused mice to experience changes in the normal composition of gut bacteria. This in turn produced a cascade of negative health effects.

UCLA School of Nursing researchers found that people with a certain genetic variation who took donepezil for the condition had a faster cognitive decline than those who took a placebo.

UCLA-led study of DNA patterns in tumor cells suggests that the abundance of aberrant genetic signatures common in more aggressive cancers is not random.

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos has woven together his interests in global health, medicine and culture into a career as a medical anthropologist.

Dr. Richard Boxer, a visiting professor of urology at UCLA, argues that giving states money to provide high-deductible plans with health savings accounts could save Medicaid.

New UCLA-led research shows which strains of viruses that are transmitted depend on whether transmission occurs during pregnancy or through breastfeeding.

While boxes of decadent chocolate treats, celebratory champagne and romantic, high-calorie dinners may dance in your mind as a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, your heart may be pining for something else.

UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Larissa Mooney explains in this Q&A how allowing pharmacies to dispense naloxone leads to a reduction in overdoses.

Researchers at UCLA found the same types of abnormalities in the study’s e-cigarette users that are found in tobacco cigarette users. These abnormalities are associated with increased cardiac risk.

The new protocol opens the door to researchers who want to make muscle, bone and cartilage cells in the lab; the scientists plan to study whether the method could be help treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

UCLA biologists are exploring ways to defeat antibiotic-resistant bacteria; a mathematical formula they created can help predict which combinations of drugs will be most effective.

UCLA researchers determined for the first time why some people with advanced melanoma or advanced colon cancer will not respond to pembrolizumab.

For generations, doctors told women who were born with complex congenital heart defects that the physical demands of pregnancy would be too difficult for them.

The study is the first to evaluate the medication as a possible treatment for alcoholism.

The researchers will identify biomarkers associated with the development of epilepsy and develop therapies designed to prevent or modify the condition.

Researchers found that combining a vaccine developed at UCLA with two drugs that modulate distinct aspects of the immune system was more effective at allowing T cells to attack glioblastoma than the vaccine alone.