Health + Behavior

Now available for iPad, 'Plan ABC' lists birth control methods in order of effectiveness and is designed to provide women with current, medically accurate information.

Study is the first to identify bacteria's 'strategy' for forming the micro-colonies that become biofilms, which can cause seemingly routine bacterial infections to become lethal.

A strike by AFSCME patient care and service workers could involve more than 4,000 UCLA Health System and medical school employees, most of whom take care of patients and their families.

Findings from UCLA School of Dentistry researchers could pave the way toward new treatments for head and neck cancers.

UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson's disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies.

With a simple push of an iPad button, UCLA physicians can send the robot gliding down the hall to a patient's room to perform an examination in real time.

Facebook was by far the most popular platform, followed by LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube -- particularly among those in private practice who perform cosmetic procedures.

Using virtual reality, neurophysicists have determined how environmental stimuli and brain rhythms generate our neuronal maps of the world.

Those in underserved communities are not only at greater stroke risk, but they face more barriers to achieving healthy lifestyle changes, researchers say.

This study and others indicate a greater severity of addiction among female abusers, suggesting that new treatment approaches may be needed for girls and women.

UCLA scientists say people with body dysmorphic disorder, a condition in which they see themselves as disfigured even when they're not, have less-effcient brain connections.

The Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America will draw on UCLA's cross-disciplinary strengths and partnerships with other institutions to address key issues in the region.

A multidisplinary UCLA research team will lead a national effort to determine within weeks, rather than years, if certain drug compounds hold promise for treating the disorder.

UCLA scientits have discovered a molecule that kills potentially dangerous stem cells that fail to differentiate while leaving their differentiated progeny unharmed.

The new research lends weight to the idea that the mental fogginess experienced by patients, often referred to as as "chemo brain," may involve neurophysiological changes.

By understanding how aggressive or likely to spread certain subtypes are, oncologists can tailor therapies that are more effective and potentially less damaging.

A drug-delivery system utilizing nanodiamonds, byproducts of mining and refining operations, significantly reduced the size of tumors in mice with "triple-negative" breast cancer.

The FDA designation should speed development for a promising breast cancer treatment being tested at UCLA.

"Everyone in the field wants to know what telomerase looks like, and there it was. I was so excited, I could hardly breathe," said UCLA biochemist Juli Feigon.

The "entirely illogical" finding from a new UCLA study suggests new approaches for treating persistent viral infections like HIV and hepatitis C.

Doctors at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center have become the first on the West Coast to perform a new, less-invasive procedure to help clear plaque-ridden carotid arteries.

Faculty and students from the UCLA School of Nursing will present new findings at the annual Western Institute of Nursing Conference, which runs from April 11 to 13 in Anaheim, Calif.

It is critical to study different populations to understand if current genetic findings in autism can be generalized to a broader population, said Dr. Daniel Geschwind.

The funds will establish the UCLA–First 5 LA Children's Dental Care Program, which will benefit residents of underserved communities, who are at high risk for dental disease.

Researchers found that individuals with higher stroke risk performed worse on cognitive tests, and their brain scans showed evidence of plaques and tangles found Alzheimer's.