Health + Behavior

Symptoms to look out for during and after the election include heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath and tremors.

The advance will enable scientists to follow the precise path by which T cells are formed from blood stem cells inside the thymus.

The longtime pediatric dentist, community volunteer and UCLA instructor has spent a half-century preparing budding dentists for the profession.

New data from the California Health Interview Survey also covers health topics related to social media, sexual violence and veterans.

Brown, a UCLA alumna and member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, died Oct. 4 at her home in Los Angeles.

The scientists were brought together by their shared belief that genetics could be a key to finding better approaches to the pandemic.

Since first appearing in 2011, #BCSM has been used on the social media platform more than 830,000 times.

The longer COVID-19 continues, the more entrenched these psychological, social and societal changes are likely to be, the study authors suggest.

Research brief: Even successfully treated HIV-infected adults are at increased of many diseases more commonly associated with aging.

UCLA testing found that AMBMP allowed mouse muscles to work and grow the way healthy muscle cells do.

UCLA Health’s Dr. Annabelle de St. Maurice tells us what the public needs to know about casting ballots during COVID-19.

A pioneer in cancer immunology, Dr. Antoni Ribas has devoted his career to developing and refining new therapies for malignant melanoma.

The research opens up the possibility of using drugs that simulate viruses to overcome immunotherapy resistance in melanoma.

Research brief: The new screening method looks for particular bits of DNA that have been shed by the placenta and entered the mother's blood.

Spanning medicine, math and nanomaterials, support for campus scientific studies has grown almost 40% in five years.

The findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The new platform, called SwabSeq, can pool thousands of individual test samples and return accurate results in less than a day.

A team of volunteers gathered hundreds of pounds of supplies — including masks, gurneys and robotic surgical arms — to assist those in need, now two months after the explosion.

The group, whose 11 partners include seven UC campuses, will work to overcome challenges and barriers to prevention, treatment and vaccination.

Based on research in the California Health Interview Survey, UCLA researchers found the trend was especially pronounced among young adults.

The team will investigate the mechanisms of treatment resistance, laying the groundwork for new and improved combination therapies.

Research brief: Before the ACA, a new study shows, 35.6% of the lowest-income families experienced burdensome costs, but this fell to 23.7% post-ACA.

In pregnant mice, the maternal gut microbiata plays a key role in regulating which genes are activated in the growing brain, UCLA biologists say.

Research brief: In mice, a neural sequence in the brain's striatum acts like falling dominoes, allowing them to precisely measure short intervals.

One of the most effective preventive measures is germline sequencing, which can detect gene mutations known to increase disease risk.