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Students’ confidence levels, P.E. enjoyment, and knowledge about fitness also increased following the program.

The finding is a major advance because the high-energy particles can be harmful for satellites and humans in space.

The chemistry professor engages students in part by showing how the subject is relevant to everyday life, medicine and even pop culture.

Results of the study provide evidence that drugs used to treat diabetes could be used to reduce tumor growth in pancreatic and prostate cancers.

The nine-day program, in its eighth year at UCLA, covers the basics of business ownership.

New study focuses on rare DNA mutations that affect protein function.

Sepsis accounts for roughly the same percentage of hospital readmissions in California as heart attacks and congestive heart failure — and it costs the health care system more than both of them combined.

The researchers tracked the behavior of patients and doctors before and after a 2009 policy change in a county-run health program in Orange County, California.

Scientists from UCLA and City of Hope have become the first to inhibit the mechanism of a protein that regulates a key process that causes cancer to grow.

UCLA admits 16,027 high school seniors remarkable for their achievements both inside and outside the classroom.

New version of device, designed for smaller patients, provides mechanical support until a donor heart can be found.

Doctors needed to determine prior to surgery whether a replacement valve would fit, given the unusual structure of the patient’s heart.

The findings strongly suggest that stem cell-based gene therapy with a chimeric antigen receptor may be an effective treatment for chronic HIV infection in humans.

Comedian Kate Clinton’s “coming out” remembrance, coverage of the watershed 1993 march on Washington and the story of murdered transgender teen Fred Martinez are just a few examples of the remarkable new digital portal.

The Congo Basin Institute in Cameroon will provide a one-of-a-kind center to address the challenges of food and water security, climate change, biodiversity loss, public health and emerging diseases.

The research may identify drug targets that lead to new treatments for acne.

Results could one day have an impact on the development of a treatment for osteoporosis as well as potentially help those with traumatic bone injuries.

“Hyperentanglement” allows each paired photons to carry much more data than was possible with previous methods.

The gift will go toward the Terasaki Center’s program endowment allowing for new initiatives that focus on community engagement.

Newer, more targeted method, called partial breast irradiation, takes less time to complete and is less likely to expose vital organs to potentially harmful radiation.

Adult obesity rates varied widely by county: San Francisco County had the lowest, 11.3 percent, and Imperial County the highest, 41.7 percent.

“The idea of the summit is that the youth take the lead and the adults listen,” said UCLA’s Darnell Hunt.

The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, concluded that doctors should consider prescribing the long-lasting injectable much earlier in the course of treatment than they typically do today.

Tens of millions of Americans will suffer at some point in their lifetime from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Functional MRI might help doctors predict who responds best to one of the most common treatments.

“Much of the psychological distress stemming from chronic life stress and trauma remains undetected and untreated,” said Gail Wyatt, a UCLA psychiatry professor.