Health + Behavior

Hair follicle stem cells, the cells of origin for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, a common skin cancer, cannot initiate cancer growth during their quiescent phase, UCLA researchers found.

In the city of Oxnard, one of the largest suppliers of strawberries for California, the majority of the pickers are indigenous farmworkers from one of the poorest regions in Mexico.

Nanomedicine has proven to be promising in fighting cancer, offering the prospect of safer and more effective imaging and drug delivery, and the ability to target tumor cells while sparing patients' healthy tissue.

Researchers studying mice found no evidence of an association between iron levels and the hardening of the arteries that leads to often deadly cardiovascular disease.

Researchers have recived nearly $21 million from California's stem cell agency to support clinical trials testing stem cell-focused therapies for cancer and sickle cell disease.

The study pinpoints the progenitor cells of human cartilage and provides a biological roadmap for potential therapies to repair cartilage defects and damage from osteoarthritis.

Mark Wise, a former infantry platoon leader who was wounded in 2009 by an IED in Afghanistan and underwent reconstructive surgery with UCLA’s Operation Mend, has completed his 200-mile trek to the South Pole along with 12 of his...

UCLA researchers hope “face-to-face” checkups by computer will free patients, especially low-income ones, from having to travel to appointments, which can be a barrier to care.

The findings may help doctors learn how to time the delivery of drugs to battle glioblastoma and, eventually, other types of cancer.

“This is the worst pain ever!” screams a woman in the delivery ward, her eyelids fluttering as the baby’s skull crowns between her legs.

Scientists could use the knowledge that prostate cancer stem cells can change their physical appearance to develop drugs that more effectively target the disease.

Only about 1 percent of patients with diverticulosis -- not the widely cited 25 percent from previous studies -- will develop the condition known as diverticulitis, which causes pain and infection in the abdomen.

  Dirna Mayasari, who is getting her master's at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, spent much of this past summer in Myanmar working with a refugee community. In the video, Mayasari, who was a medical student at the time,...

The facility will provide highly specialized care, advanced treatment and leading-edge technologies to treat spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, strokes and other acute conditions.

UCLA researchers have found that older HIV-positive men who have sex with men and who smoke are at much higher risk of being infected with the HPVs that most often cause anal cancer.

About 100 kidney transplant recipients and their donors — all participants in various living donor transplant "chains" — reunited today at Reagan UCLA Medical Center for a holiday celebration of giving and receiving the gift of life. The...

Children who spent time in an orphanage also tended to display "indiscriminate friendliness," an inappropriate willingness to approach adults, including strangers.

The discovery of the cells that contribute to the healthy growth of the placenta could help scientists track fetal development — and identify factors that cause it to go awry.

Gudelia Bustamante is thinking big when it comes to planning for the future. Camping, fishing and a trip to visit her son stationed at an Air Force base in Germany are on her to-do list.      While that may not sound all that...

Professor Ann Williams and Dr. Roger Detels began collaborating on AIDS research and treatment in China 15 years ago — around the same time that World AIDS Day, marked every year on Dec. 1, was established to unite people around the globe in the...

A study by researchers at UCLA and the University of Texas reveals gender differences in sexual regret and traces them back to our evolutionary past.

Study results shed light on how genetic changes cause autism on a molecular level and will help scientists identify targets for future autism research.

About 60 percent of all children between the ages of 2 and 5, and 70 percent of Latino kids, eat fast food regularly, and many don't get enough fruits and vegetables, a UCLA study shows.

The company's $4 million gift will help foster better consultation, collaboration and care among UCLA doctors, medical institutions and the military for the benefit of severely wounded warriors.

The biomarker could help doctors predict early on, just after the onset of motor symptoms, how rapidly the disease will progress.