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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.

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

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

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

Youths, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, experience many similar issues leading to homelessness, but providers of homeless youth services indicate some of these issues are exacerbated for youths who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning.

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 education professor Linda Sax undertook a study to better understand who women’s college students are today and to identify how they’ve changed over time.

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

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 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.

Doctors are encouraged to see that a growing number of cancer patients are being snatched from the precipice by novel immunotherapy treatments.

In its historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court today cited research by Gary Gates, the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.

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 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.

The three-year project aims to fill critical gaps in knowledge about concussion and translate research findings into new safety guidelines for the more than 450,000 U.S. collegiate student-athletes.

A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks — an advance that could redefine the way scientists approach solar cell design.

New research sheds light on the Earth’s climate over geologic time scales.