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New mobile device, created with a 3D printer, analyzes blood samples and delivers results in under a minute.

Two UCLA health care researchers say it’s about time that Medicare reimburse health providers for consulting with patients about treatment near the end of their lives.

Camp Leg Power combines creative therapeutic activities in a fun camp atmosphere with a pilot study to see if changes in the brain can be identified in children with spastic cerebral palsy.

An assessment tool developed jointly by psychiatrists at UCLA and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will be the first to help identify maladaptive grief in youth between 8 and 18.

Located in a courtyard next to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a fountain was dedicated to honor those who become organ, eye and tissue donors at the time of their deaths.

A University of California initiative to reduce costs and improve quality across UC’s five academic medical centers has saved more than $70 million in its first year.

Best Hospitals Honor Roll recognizes excellence in treating patients who need an especially high level of care.

More than 100 UCLA Health employees will be staffing two clinics to ensure the health and well-being of spectators, Olympians, their coaches and chaperones.

Researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Fielding School of Public Health are participating in a new study of children with autism spectrum disorders that could help physicians diagnose and track ASD and assess treatments.

Identity protection services will be offered free of charge to potentially impacted individuals.

With less of the protein, called p53, older epithelial cells have a hard time maintaining the integrity of their genetic material when they encounter carcinogens, which allows cancer to develop.

Dr. Edward Zaragoza, UCLA clinical director of imaging informatics and chief of acute care imaging, practices aerialist acts of derring-do several nights a week at the Cirque School in West Hollywood.

Why do some youngsters bounce back quickly, while others suffer devastating side effects for years? Damage to the fatty sheaths around the brain’s nerve fibers may explain the difference.

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

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

UCLA’s Dr. Matthew Waxman writes about the two months he spent in Sierra Leone treating people suffering from the deadly Ebola virus.

The UCLA campus has become a place where mind-body programs are being developed to help people deal with stress as well as maintain a healthy lifestyle through the Healthy Campus Initiative.

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.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health team, in partnership with public- and private-sector organizations, is spearheading community action to reduce exposure to smoking in Los Angeles apartment buildings.

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.

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.

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