Health + Behavior

Across medicine, environmental studies, public policy, the social sciences and beyond, UCLA scholars in 2025 continued turning discovery into real-world impact.

Check out 13 of the year's most unusual discoveries, which prove groundbreaking science doesn’t always look serious at first glance.

The collaboration will accelerate clinical trial readiness and implementation for people with autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions.

The news of deadly shootings near and far is devastating. 

Meet Maher El-Kady, working toward a more sustainable energy future, and Dr. Dennis Slamon, groundbreaking breast cancer researcher and clinician.

The gift will support the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program by funding an endowed chair and a fellowship.

The study is the first large-scale clinical trial to show that a new oral endocrine therapy outperforms the long-standing standard therapies used for early-stage HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.

California Health Interview Survey data show many lack the therapeutic, legal or workplace support they desired.

Novel research reveals that supportive relationships influence weight through oxytocin pathways linking brain, gut microbiome and eating behaviors.

The UCLA study quantifies the benefits of federal programs that fund contraception for low-income Americans.

UCLA’s Osvaldo Gutierrez is working to make sure everyone has access to game-changing drugs.

Shorter courses of androgen deprivation therapy could reduce risks while still effectively controlling cancer.

Simms/Mann dietitian Deborah Hong discusses the link between excessive sugar and cancer risk.

This novel therapy can be mass-produced and stored ready-to-use at a fraction of the cost.

The new grant will fund the enrollment of 10 additional patients in the trial and support research into the science behind immune tolerance.

Peer-reviewed studies detail use of techniques to better track the spread of disease and highlight UCLA Fielding’s work on public health methodology.

UCLA research shows antidepressants can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease caused by PTSD.

Listen to Knaul, associate of the UCLA chancellor and a distinguished professor of medicine, on UCLA Health’s “Medically Speaking” podcast.

The study calls for inclusion of unseen but real health risks in understanding the effects of disasters.

Following the team’s discovery, researchers have identified a strategy to possibly prevent treatment relapses.

The findings point to a growing public health concern for younger Americans.

New research by the UCLA Pritzker Center for Children and Families examined the impact on the disaster on the educational experiences of children and youths involved with the child welfare system. 

These insights into bugs behind lethal illnesses could help with antibiotic treatment and even problems in industry.

A UCLA-led research team has reconstructed how the shape and reach of the methane plumes from the 2015–16 Aliso Canyon gas blowout evolved over 112 days.

The findings mark the first time this regimen has demonstrated a survival benefit in the vast majority of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.