Health + Behavior

New research shows that the accuracy of genetically based disease predictions varies from person to person.

The program, housed in the school’s department of biostatistics, is designed for both current professionals and recent college graduates.

A study in mice shows that scarring of collagen pathways prevent stem cells from healing damaged tissue in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

UCLA psychologists suggest that by 25, one’s mode of evaluating the truthfulness of information is pretty much set.

The May 4 event raised funds for UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital.

Back after COVID, the unique partnership has fostered educational, research and cultural opportunities on both sides of the Pacific.

The two-year grants are meant to further scientific understanding of cannabis and inform efforts to shape public policy.

Among California veterans who had considered suicide, nearly 1 in 5 reported living in a home with at least one firearm stored loaded and unlocked.

A new approach developed by UCLA has already improved recruitment for research studies on mental health.

An international team including UCLA sociologist Giovanni Rossi found that people rely on each other for help constantly.

For over 20 years, the institute that bears his name has been at the forefront of research on issues involving LGBTQ people.

Baljit Khakh will discuss the long-overlooked role of astrocytes in health and disease during his Faculty Research Lecture on April 19.

New UCLA-led findings could help officials tailor health and safety policies to appeal to populations with a variety of social views.

The findings suggest a need for better public health policies aimed at mental health and substance use disorders.

A UCLA-developed technology could also provide a platform for fighting other allergies and autoimmune disorders.

A UCLA-led study predicts that an equitable ‘greening’ plan could add up to a million years in collective life expectancy.

The findings suggest that efforts to encourage vaccination might do well to take advantage of positive feelings between different social groups.

Except among its oldest citizens, the U.S. has higher death rates in all age groups than five high-income European nations.

Both tend to judge the co-occurrence of two events as more probable than one event alone. Could mental shortcuts be to blame?

The school intends to recruit more students from Hispanic-serving institutions to its doctoral programs and, ultimately, its faculty.

The newly minted UCLA professor is dedicated to improving testing for tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.

Two years after she first joined a UCLA lab, Grace McAuley identified a critical step toward a possible therapy for a rare disease.

A UCLA study suggests emissions from basic American diet are equivalent to driving a car up to 20 miles per day.

The condition, CD3 delta SCID, is caused by a mutation that prevents the production of the CD3 delta protein that is needed for the normal development of T cells

Nearly 180 students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA celebrate Match Day 2023.