Health + Behavior

Misuse of prescription and illicit drugs is so prevalent in Tijuana and East Los Angeles that community clinics in those areas should routinely, though discreetly, screen for it.

The number of Latino physicians in the U.S. has not kept up with the dramatic increase in the Latino population.

Joan Asarnow is working on a pair of projects aimed at combating rising suicide rates among young people and changing prevention and care throughout the U.S.

The discovery could have important implications for treating white matter strokes, a major cause of dementia that also accelerate Alzheimer’s disease.

There are ways to both enjoy the holidays and keep healthy at the same time, says Erin Morse, chief clinical dietitian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

The team found a way to correct the instability by resetting the stem cells from a later stage of development to an earlier stage. These results could have great impact on the creation of healthy tissues to cure disease.

Nearly half of 125 pregnancies studied resulted in defects among newborns or ended in fetal death.

A simple and inexpensive attachment could help to expand testing to regions with limited resources.

The findings could help improve upon standard behavioral therapy, in which people are exposed to the objects they’re afraid of — which can be frightening enough that some cannot complete treatment.

UCLA researchers have found that Tianshengyuan-1 increased activity of an enzyme that plays a role in regulating cell division, which is a factor in treating blood cell deficiency and cancer.

The California Health Interview Survey data show the rate of uninsured Californians fell to a new low in 2015, and fewer Californians cited cost as a reason to skip needed medical care.

Researchers compared how long babies looked at faces of adult women of different ethnicities to gain more understanding of social development.

The approach being tested at UCLA is designed to boost patients’ abilities to move their own hands; it’s unique because the device is implanted in the spine instead of the brain.

Dr. Ruth Alvarez is now working to complete a certificate in pediatric dentistry at UCLA, a goal she expects to achieve in June 2018.

Researchers from the schools of dentistry, medicine and engineering developed a digital health platform capable of optimizing efficacy and safety during chemotherapy.

UCLA scientists have already established national and international collaborations, begun a series of studies and implemented a program that screens and treats students for depression.

Cassie Mogilner Holmes has been exploring the relationship between happiness, time and money for almost a decade. She’s looked deeply into such intriguing questions as: Does the meaning of happiness change as people age?

Neuroscientists at UCLA have developed a new technique for studying a particular type of cell in the brain known as an astrocyte that may play a role in diseases such as Lou Gehrig’s disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Experts from the UCLA School of Dentistry and Fielding School of Public Health make recommendations based on UCLA-First 5 LA program achievements.

UCLA researchers have discovered a previously unrecognized type of progenitor cell that is found in uncommonly high numbers in inflamed areas of the gland.

UCLA’s Dr. Daniel Geschwind said the findings could point the way to the development of drugs that reverse the specific type of gene activity patterns in the brains of people with the disorder.

The findings could one day lead to improved therapies for people undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment for cancer.

The study is released as the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The project supports interdisciplinary teams in their work to identify and test approaches for curing people infected with HIV who have established latent reservoirs of the virus.

The roots of America’s widespread opioid addiction are multifaceted and extend to the economy, bad medicine and corrupt pharmacists, said UCLA legal scholar and health policy expert Jill Horwitz.