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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.

The research could improve scientists’ ability to understand health care, economics and the environment, and to glean much more pertinent insight from data.

In industrial and multi-family housing, the optimism of the past few years continued, according to a survey by the UCLA Anderson Forecast and the Allen Matkins law firm.

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

Mellinkoff, who transformed the fledgling UCLA School of Medicine into a nationally recognized academic institution, died on July 17 at age 96.

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

The gift from the renowned art dealer — the largest single gift made by an alumna to the arts in UC history — will add 40 percent more usable space to the current arts facility.

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.

Large predatory cats live among us, and they’re closer to human development than you might think.

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.

Guided by the findings of an in-depth University of California survey, UC President Janet Napolitano has approved $3.3 million in new funding over the next two years to help students regularly access nutritious food on campus and off, UC announced ...

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.

Grassroots outreach efforts are cited for participation in signing end-of-life documents, but there is room for improvement, a UCLA-led study finds.

Hailing from nearly every county in California, 49 states and 81 countries, the students are the most ethnically, socioeconomically and geographically diverse admitted group in UCLA history.

UCLA’s Dr. Jonathan Fielding chaired panel whose report called for increased coordination both within the Department of Health and Human Services and across federal agencies.

A type of immunotherapy that has shown promising results against cancer could also be used against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

An innovative program that serves low-income and uninsured children in Los Angeles has more than tripled preventive dental visits for children from birth to age 5, according to a new UCLA policy brief.

New five-year grant supports biomedical research that accelerates the translation of laboratory discoveries into more effective treatments for patients.