Health + Behavior

NBC News shadowed five UCLA medical students as they trained at an urban hospital near the Amazon jungle.

The discoveries by an interdisciplinary team of UCLA scientists could improve the diagnoses of these aggressive cancers.

Research Brief: An increase in the state's HPV vaccination rate would reduce the number of preventable cancers and the financial burden that treatment for these cases would create, the study found.

50% of treatments could have been avoided using the new tool, a UCLA-led study finds.

The UCLA study highlights the importance of understanding risks near other natural gas storage facilities.

Langer was a long-time faculty member and administrator at UCLA who went on to establish a college-readiness program for underprivileged youth.

The gift will help bridge the so-called “valley of death” in laboratory research, when lack of funding prevents promising discoveries from reaching clinical trials.

Center will bring together academic researchers, students and health care executives and practitioners to explore critical issues in the management of health care organizations.

Q&A with the newly appointed director of cancer population genetics at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Study, which is the first to demonstrate a causal link, shows the connection is strongest in states with least restrictive gun laws.

The program will train future primary care physicians to help ensure they are able to address the physical and mental health care needs of people who are LGBTQ.

The team also found that the dominant animal’s behavior tends to drive synchronization more than behavior of the subordinate.

It is listed in all pediatric specialties assessed by U.S. News & World Report.

Dr. Zhijian (James) Chen of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas is the recipient. Chen has performed groundbreaking work on the mechanisms underlying the cellular response to infection.

All four UCLA hospitals were recognized for a commitment to LGBTQ-centered care.

Combining biopsy strategies allowed doctors to find up to 33% more cancers.

Research brief: The work also revealed new details on how IBD can develop and what other types of drugs may work to treat the disease.

A UCLA study found that many countries have taken important steps to align national laws with a 2006 treaty, but others have not gone far enough.

Chancellor Gene Block and Vice Chancellor John Mazziotta sent the following message to the UCLA campus community.

UCLA researchers have developed a much faster and more accurate method to evaluate the formation of a bacterial community, known as a microbiome.

The approach shows promise for extending the lives of people with a type of melanoma that contains a potent gene mutation, BRAF V600E.

Bath is credited with inventing the Laserphaco Probe, a device she patented in 1988 to improve cataract surgery.

At Hippocratic oath ceremony, Dr. Lisa Sanders charges graduates to “be the doctor we aspire to be.”

“This trial was unique because it looks at younger women who haven’t gone through menopause,” said Dr. Sara Hurvitz, the study’s lead author.

“We can no longer look at this disease as one in which we should always be measuring survival in months,” said UCLA’s Dr. Edward Garon, the lead author.