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Researchers led by UCLA’s Dr. Edward Garon compared pembrolizumab to the chemotherapy drug docetaxel in a clinical trial involving more than 1,000 people.

The designation means that people with the disease will have greater access to the drug without first having to receive other treatments.

UCLA Newsroom revisits some of our favorite news items from the year. Publishing resumes on Jan. 4.

Terahertz waves can be used to analyze plastics, clothing, semiconductors and works of art without damaging them and to investigate the formation of stars, among other applications.

Families OverComing Under Stress, or FOCUS, was able to reduce the most problematic psychological and emotional symptoms of men and women in the military, their spouses and their children for half of its participants.

Discovery could aid in the creation of vaccines and drug treatments for bluetongue disease.

Global climate models vary in how much they show rain and other precipitation changing due to climate change. UCLA researchers discovered a way to reduce these differences by 35 percent.

The findings could be an important step toward personalized medicine for women with the disease, said UCLA’s Dr. Patricia Ganz.

Of the 47 geographical areas the researchers analyzed, 20 had significantly higher percentages of people with advanced-stage disease than the U.S. norm.

Logic would suggest that millions of years of evolution would have perfected spatial localization in humans. A new UCLA study helps explain why that’s not the case.

The $1.75 million grant will be used to create a toolkit to analyze genomics data, allowing researchers to understand how threatened populations respond to changes in habitats and climate.

Technique allows researchers to test many different small molecules at once.

According to senior economist David Shulman, with the economy generating jobs at a 200,000-a-month clip, the unemployment rate should soon drop to 4.6 percent.

The discovery could point the way toward new drugs that slow or stop the disease from spreading.

Less than 5 percent of men who chose to forgo aggressive treatment are being monitored as closely as they should be

Findings provide conclusive evidence of disproportionately high rates of dental disease in methamphetamine abusers.

The platform will be designed to use information about users’ previous asthma attacks to alert them when conditions might be right for another one.

Researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research have received a $400,000 grant to find out why individuals who receive both Medi-Cal and Medicare benefits are rejecting the new state-managed health care pilot program.

The study, by researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute, could be an important step in the effort to satisfy the world’s need for clean water.

Ten UCLA students completed the UCLA Labor Center’s “I Am a #YoungWorker” multimedia research project documenting the experiences of young people working in Los Angeles County.

The analysis is one of a series of studies led by Daniel Blumstein that address questions about wild animals’ fear responses to humans.

Therapy targets not cancer cells but macrophages, a special type of immune cell, in order to prevent them from helping the cancer take root in the abdomen.

UC Global Food Initiative researchers recently published a report highlighting ways UC research, including a study at UCLA, has been used to inform or affect policies in food and agriculture.

Dylan Miceli-Nelson, 14, and his “co-stars” Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson headline a video for an online humor site to help raise awareness and money to fight the deadly disease.

UCLA professor Teresa McCarty has done extensive work with Native-American communities on language education policy and youth language and literacy learning.