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A new UCLA study examining child health in the context of asset poverty indicates that household wealth is linked more closely to health disparity than income or education level.

The report by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation recommends seven steps to bolster available resources for people who are victims and to aid in prevention.

Politics and media experts from UCLA and Vanderbilt University are providing a data-backed understanding of commercials’ persuasiveness and effectiveness with a new rating system.

UCLA Engineering grad student Gary Li won $1K in the system-wide contest with an exciting, accessible, 3-minute speech about his research on how plasma thrusters could replace conventional rockets for space travel.

A UCLA policy brief recommends that veterans’ mental health status be continuously monitored throughout their lives, not just when emergencies arise.

Combining workouts with traditional behavioral therapy helped people who were addicted to methamphetamine.

An earlier study had suggested that a class of drugs called anthracyclines might increase the risk for neuropsychological issues and cognitive difficulties.

UCLA biologists write that the findings should help guide how endangered species are treated.

The researchers discovered good news as well: An omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid seems to reverse the harmful changes.

The findings also suggest that regardless of a person’s level of fat mass, a higher level of muscle mass helps reduce the risk of death.

A study by UCLA researchers demonstrates other benefits, too, among states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

A new study traces how a largely unfamiliar pathogen led to a global epidemic that has linked the virus to fetal brain-development disorders and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Eventually, doctors might be able to analyze the levels and types of patients’ intestinal bacteria and then prescribe probiotics to bolster the amount of bacteria with anti-inflammatory properties.

The device combines two components invented at UCLA: a photonic time stretch microscope and a deep learning computer program that identifies cancer cells with over 95 percent accuracy.

The new technique uses penny-sized microfluidic chips that are equipped with minuscule DNA “bar codes,” which are no bigger than a single cell.

Already a leader in the field, UCLA will collaborate with five of the nation’s other top cancer centers in the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

UCLA biochemists have devised a way to convert sugar into a variety of useful chemical compounds without using cells and that could lead to the production of biofuels and pharmaceuticals.

The research found that the phenomenon holds true around the world — and that when people hear two women laughing together, they are likely to assume the women are friends.

The new technique assesses how changes in a person’s immune response can help predict the effectiveness of a new therapy in people who have the most common and deadly type of brain cancer.

The new technique can accurately identify a person’s optimal drug and dose combinations throughout an entire course of treatment, without complex, time-consuming genetic analysis.

A new public service campaign will inform apartment tenants about the risks of secondhand smoke and provide tools for working with landlords on smoke-free policies.

New survey by the UCLA Luskin School’s Los Angeles Initiative, led by Zev Yaroslavsky, reveals the depth of financial insecurity among county residents.

UCLA researchers found that workouts, in addition to brain games, appear to trigger a protein that restores connections between neurons.

The approach can help physicians identify disorders that may have gone undiagnosed for years. UCLA has been a leader in using the test since 2012.

UCLA-led study finds that drugs commonly used to combat the condition actually increase the risk of fracture, meaning that taking them is worse than doing nothing at all.