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Environmental law report suggests policies that could help San Joaquin Valley gain from high-speed rail, but the region must plan now to reap the benefits.

A suite of intimate, thematic exhibitions mounted this fall will highlight more than 800 artworks from the UCLA Fowler Museum's vast, acclaimed global collections.

For third consecutive year, the magazine names UCLA among the nation's best, based on measures such as social mobility, research and service.

A team led by Aydogan Ozcan has developed a smartphone add-on that would allow people at risk for diabetes, kidney disease and other ailments to test themselves instead of having to visit a doctor.

The research findings support the need to incorporate better diets and regular exercise, as opposed to concentrating on weight loss alone, to improve children's long-term well-being.

UCLA expert on marijuana policy proposes that the U.S. attorney general allow state-licensed production and sales, and focus resources on cooperating with states to shut down illegal growing.

UCLA researchers found that each Part D patient, as well as the government, could save hundreds by substituting generic or therapeutic alternatives for brand-name drugs.

Developed by researchers at UCLA and Charles R. Drew University of Science and Medicine, the intervention takes a holistic, culturally sensitive approach.

Nearly 58,000 donors contributed to help UCLA surpass the campus's ambitious $500 million goal, strengthening progress toward a more self-reliant future.

Using an advanced MRI technique, researchers determined that elevated iron levels in the hippocampus were associated with the destruction of myelin and tissue damage characteristic of the disease.

Ever wish Los Angeles traffic moved better? It might if more commuters followed the lead of UCLA, where only about half of campus commuters drive alone to work.

UCLA is named second among U.S. public universities and 12th among all universities internationally, holding both positions for the third consecutive year.

Feuer, a partner at the firm of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, has handled a broad range of complex business law and corporate governance matters. He begins his tenure on Sept. 1.

The downloadable report and map, which details more than 1,200 urban agriculture sites, will aid city planners, food policy advocates and local growers.

The experimental treatment may also decrease the need for liver or intestinal transplants and lower the risk mortality in young patients suffering intestinal failure, UCLA researchers say.

"These findings suggest that even men with prostate cancer can take control of their disease and moderate its aggressiveness through diet and lifestyle choices," said UCLA's Lenore Arab.

The positive effects of creating websites and blogging were particularly strong for women in active medical treatment, most of whom had metastatic disease, UCLA researchers said.

The research could help show that saliva can be used to detect life-threatening diseases, including diabetes and cancers of the pancreas, breasts, ovaries and stomach.

Easily accessible through an online app, UCLA-developed research maps help neuroscientists quickly scan what is already known in their field and plan their next study.

The biennial survey, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the largest amd most comprehensive state health survey in the nation.

Patricia Greenfield's analysis of some 1.5 million books published between 1800 and 2000 shows how human psychology has evolved in response to historical change.

The five-year grant will support UCLA scientists' interdisciplinary efforts to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of prostate cancer.

UCLA researchers have helped to uncover a biological link between schizophrenia and Fragile X syndrome, a disorder associated with intellectual impairment and autism.

UCLA researchers have found that a new treatment approach incorporating both cellular and gene therapies significantly reduced brain tumor size in a model system.

With the Thirty Meter Telescope project in Hawaii, UCLA and the University of California have moved a step closer to peering deeper into the cosmos than ever before.