Doctors often recommend antihistamines for women with severe symptoms, but the drugs may carry risks — and may not be very effective for some.

The Confederacion Americana de Urologia (CAU), an organization of 8,000 urologists from Central and South America, Mexico and Spain, has announced that it is establishing the Shlomo Raz Medal and Prize, its highest accolade. The new prize will honor ...

New Staff Assembly Executive Board announced The newly elected members of 2013-14 Staff Assembly Executive Board have been announced and will take office on July 1. Assuming the post of president is Cindy Cordova, who served as president-elect...

Chon A. Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. This column appeared in the Huffington Post on June 7, 2013.      In the...

Working collaboratively with people from different cultures and countries comes naturally to Azeb Tadesse, deputy director of the African Studies Center at UCLA. As a child, she often visited her father at his job at Ethiopian Airlines at postings...

The hospital is part of a select group recognized for excellence in all 10 medical specialty areas reviewed in the magazine's new "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.

General Wesley Clark (ret.) is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations. This op-ed appeared originally in the Washington Post on June 6.       President Obama’s talks with Chinese President Xi...

Massage therapists were kneading away the stress of students studying at the Young Research Library Monday. The complimentary service was offered by FITWELL.  

Dr. Brennan M.R. Spiegel is associate professor of medicine at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health, where he teaches decision analysis. Besides his medical degree from New York Medical College, he has a...

Luisa Iruela-Arispe, professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology, is this year's recipient of the Gold Shield Faculty Prize that awards $30,000 annually to a full professor in mid-academic career in recognition of extraordinary ...

The UCLA Medical Group has earned a four-star ranking, the highest achievement possible, in the California Association of Physician Groups' (CAPG) seventh annual Standards of Excellence survey.

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center received three female victims from today's Santa Monica College shooting. Two of the patients are listed in critical condition and one is listed in serious condition. Check back for updates.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, already among the best medical schools in the nation, is getting ready to break ground on a medical education building that will change the face of the school's teaching and learning efforts.   The...

The California Association of Physician Groups' survey assesses the ability of health care systems to deliver better patient experience, better population health and better affordability.

This copper portrait medal of Hippocrates was designed by Jacques Devigne for the Paris Mint in 1983. It is part of the Ralph R. and Patricia N. Sonnenschein Collection of Medical and Scientific Portrait and Commemorative Medals. The ancient...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection."As we've gotten to this sort of zero-tolerance mentality, that kind of policy has been especially applied to poor kids...

GSE&IS master's student Lawrence Grey Berkowitz won one of the 2013 Rishwain Social Justice Entrepreneurship Awards for his work teaching arts and computer skills to students in low-income neighborhoods through his electronic music class. Watch the video.

A study comparing the gestures of a baby chimpanzee, bonobo and human provides new insights into the origins of language and the co-evolution of gestures and speech.

  Each morning as the gate to fenced-in Gladys Park is unlocked, homeless men and women move in from wherever they have spent the night on downtown L.A.’s skid row. One group gathers near the portable bathroom stalls in the park; others...

The important new scholarship being produced by UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) in disciplines ranging from music and poetry to the visual arts, was recently recognized with 10 International Latino Book Awards. Four books published by ...

The Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences will foster innovative instruction and feature state-of-the-art technology, while providing much-needed amenities for students.

The new pluripotent stem cells, which were isolated as the result of a "scientific accident," could prove a boon to regenerative medicine, UCLA researchers say.

Dr. Roger S. Lo, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member and assistant professor of medicine, divisions of dermatology and molecular and medical pharmacology, has received the 33rd Annual American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Award ...

The former U.N. secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate delivered UCLA's second annual Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership on May 30.