Health + Behavior

Distinguished Professor Ronald Harper developed a device that signals the brain to breathe because it thinks the body is running.

First-year medical students enrolled in Doctoring 1 join in hospital chaplain rounds.

A team of scientists including researchers from UCLA has developed an RNA sequencing technique that could advance scientists’ use of stem cells in regenerative medicine.

UCLA researchers found that physical activity particularly affected the size of the hippocampus, which is the part of the brain controlling short-term memory.

UCLA placed highly in 15 of the 16 specialties evaluated by U.S. News and World Report. Only 3 percent of all hospitals were ranked nationally in even one specialty.

Saving a life was the last thing Dr. Stephanie Brenman, a fourth-year emergency medicine resident, expected to do as she rode on the last leg of a seven-day charity bike event.

UCLA researchers found that a drug, which has shown promise as a treatment for advanced melanoma, could also help regenerate the epidermis.

Dr. Kelsey Martin joined the medical school’s faculty in 1999, and has served in various leadership roles including as interim dean since September 2015.

Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have discovered that a certain metabolic molecule helps pluripotent stem cells mature faster.

UCLA researchers find that while a majority of adults do not get a flu shot each year, Koreans and Vietnamese have highest rates, African-Americans lowest.

The findings by UCLA researchers suggest that both factors could increase women’s risk for aging-related diseases and contribute to increasing evidence of the biological clock’s variability.

The UCLA-designed platform uses holographic imaging to produce high-resolution images of the crystal-like objects that are the telltale signs of gout.

The two-year, $2.15 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will fund research by April Pyle, Melissa Spencer and Huan Meng.

School’s out for summer and that means no PE classes for students. But PE teachers affiliated with UCLA suggest ways to keep kids fit during the break.

The finding could help reduce the number of deaths from drug-resistant infections — currently about 700,000 each year.

The milestone is a national record and it highlights the growth of the 32-year-old transplant program.

Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA is focusing on a simple aspect of patient care that's often overlooked: sleep.

Researchers have identified mechanisms that determine how the deadliest form of skin cancer can become resistant to immune checkpoint inhibitors, which could lead to the development of new treatments.

Artificial receptors kill cells infected with the virus that causes AIDS, UCLA research finds.

UCLA researchers say the study sheds new light on the way cancer survivors should be monitored during follow-up care.

UCLA study shows men and women had opposite responses in a part of the brain related to emotions and blood pressure control during blood pressure trials.

Dr. Bartly Mondino of the Jules Stein Eye Institute writes that a proposal in the state legislature to permit optometrists to perform eye surgeries risks far too much harm.

Researchers found that advertising placed on the app has a high potential to reach untested high-risk populations and reduce the spread of HIV.

An innovative organ donation program initiated at UCLA is now being adopted by other medical centers across the United States.

The study shows the effectiveness of using a vaccine to activate an immune response against advanced brain tumors and it could lead to promising treatments for people with glioblastoma.