Health + Behavior

Researchers found that youth with Type 1 diabetes who had moved from pediatric to adult care were more than twice as likely to have chronically high blood glucose levels.

For UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the FDA approved what it called “the first bionic eye for the blind.”

Even after genetically modified T cells stop fighting cancer, they seem to give rise to a new batch of tumor-killing T cells.

Closure-device therapy may be a useful strategy for younger patients with a history of strokes potentially caused by a hole in the wall of the heart.

"We can improve care while reducing costs by making sure that everything we do is centered on what the patient wants," says UCLA's Dr. Jonathan Bergman.

Pulmonary fibrosis was slowly destroying Fernando Padilla's lungs. But an experimental transplant technology at UCLA left the 57-year-old grandpa breathing a whole lot easier.

Nurses and midwives can play a critical role in lessening people's risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, according to a groundbreaking new report issued by the World Health Organization and co-authored...

Scientisits found that consuming the genetically engineered fruit helped curb inflammation, boost antioxidant activity and reduce plaques that can lead to atherosclerosis.

The new guidelines, co-developed by UCLA's Christopher Giza, are aimed at protecting the more than 1 million athletes who suffer concussions each year in the U.S.

The new approach to ventricular arrhythmias is part of a trend toward using the same cutting-edge medical techniques on different areas of the body, researchers say.

A major pandemic could occur if bird flu were to become highly contagious among humans. UCLA scientists are making sure we get a leg up on the threat.

Despite high hopes for clot-removal devices, doctors discovered that patients treated with them showed no improvement over those who received standard post-stroke care.

The certification, which confirms that the center has met the highest national standards for safety and quality, further enhances UCLA's reputation as an innovator in clinical care.

UCLA is well-positioned to play a significant role in a national effort to map the brain, as the home of the Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center and more.

"Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries 10 times more powerful. ... Now is the time to reach a level of research ...

The gift, from philanthropists Dr. Mick Dragoo and his wife, Mary, is the largest single donation from an individual or couple the dental school has ever received.

UCLA scientists have found that hypocretin, a peptide neurotransmitter, is increased during positive experiences, suggesting it could be useful in potential treatments for depression.

By combining, for the first time, "connectome" brain scans, extensive genomic screening and high-powered computing, scientists quickly zeroed in on a faulty gene.

Overlapping financial, cultural and communication barriers often prevent Latino men with prostate cancer from accessing the care they need, UCLA researchers say.

The encouraging results of Project Access, which involved 48 communities in Africa and Thailand, have "major health benefit implications," said UCLA's Thomas J. Coates.

Those who reported the greatest support also had the smallest increases in a pregnancy-related stress hormone that has been associated with depression after birth.

Long thought to be just genetic "garbage," mutant viruses can tag along with their normal cousins and, in some cases, increase disease transmission by up to 10 percent.

In findings that have implications for L.A.'s recent TB outbreak, researchers show that certain bacteria pretend to be viruses -- a tactic that allows them to hide out inside our cells.

Providers need to make sure patients with limited English proficiency have access to interpreters and translated materials to assure high-quality care, a UCLA report says.

UCLA researchers and colleagues have discovered that acne bacteria contain "bad" strains associated with pimples and "good" strains that may protect the skin.