Health + Behavior

Wondering how to woo your crush this Valentine’s Day? When it comes to love, don’t wing it — take a lesson from the birds (and bees) instead.

A UCLA study shows that radiation therapy can be cut from five weeks to five days.

Director of the UCLA Anxiety and Depression Research Center will deliver the 128th Faculty Research Lecture at UCLA on Feb. 19.

UCLA-led research uncovers new details about the Foxp1 gene, which also is involved in timing of neuron production.

The experiments, led by Professor Amander Clark, revealed a detailed timeline for when germ cells form.

The patch significantly prolonged survival and reduced the growth of tumors in mice.

Solutions to lower health risks for students and faculty include stretch breaks and more open classrooms.

Research brief: The drug is made up of compounds produced by plants, including curcumin. Curcumin has been tested to help fight multiple cancers because it is an antioxidant that reduces swelling and inflammation.

Research brief: The Medicaid expansions have improved health-related financial risk protection for low-income adults, which was one of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act.

UCLA-led research also finds that travel-related screening for coronavirus will identify less than half of those infected.

Proteins in the blood can be used to gauge a person’s risk for cerebral small vessel disease, which affects millions of older adults.

Research brief: When tested in mice with melanoma tumors that were unlikely to stimulate an immune response, the approach increased the number of anti-tumor immune cells.

The funds will help the Simms/Mann–UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology expand its reach to community clinics.

UCLA researchers were part of an international team to test gene therapy in people with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease.

Rhinoplasty may make a woman appear to be three years younger, machine learning shows.

Dr. William “Billy” Cunningham, professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and health policy and management in the Fielding School of Public Health, died Jan. 2.

The longtime professor of health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, died of cancer Jan. 5.

A UCLA-led study finds the practice effective and comparable to monitoring by physicians.

Devra and Jeff Schwartz expressed their gratitude to eight of the 100 strangers whose blood donations provided a lifeline for their 3-year-old son, Judah.

More than three-quarters of the adolescents in a family-focused treatment program recovered from their initial symptoms during the study.

Brookmeyer is an expert on how statistical tools can help address global public health challenges.

Scientists have been puzzled about why some people with heart failure live longer than others even after receiving the same treatment.

Research brief: There were no differences in outcomes for common surgical procedures between surgeons trained at foreign medical schools or the United States.

The researchers studied the mechanisms by which insulin may be secreted in the absence of glucose.

UCLA began observing its 100th birthday and delivered new advances in research, health care, the arts, community service and teaching.