The association between television viewing and childhood obesity is directly related to children's exposure to commercials that advertise unhealthy foods, according to a new UCLA School of Public Health study published in the American...

Using cryo-electron microscopy and advanced image-processing methods, UCLA researchers have developed a model of how the potentially therapeutic vesicular stomatitis virus assembles.

The technology being developed by WaveConnex will potentially enable wide-ranging applications in the areas of 'smart cards,' Internet infrastructure and entertainment electronics.

Charter schools continue to stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country.

The mysterious debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust observed by the Hubble Telescope suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids, NASA says.

While study participants were only moderately accepting of an HIV vaccine overall, researchers hope social marketing and education can help address some of the stumbling blocks to acceptance.

The UCLA Family Commons in Santa Monica is a new neighborhood clinic designed to assist families in becoming, and staying, healthy. Organizers hope it will be the first of many in communities around the country.

In people with body dysmorphic disorder, distorted self-image could be the result of the brain's abnormal processing of visual input, researchers say.