Health + Behavior

The Heal My HeART program provides patients with a creative outlet that allows them to express their feelings and help them regain physical and emotional health with a new sense of optimism.

Think “scientific research” and one may imagine doctors, Ph.D.s or technicians toiling away in the lab. But many people don’t realize that nurses do research as well.

UCLA-led researchers recommend development of new medications and new guidelines for treatment with different types and combinations of antibiotics.

The laboratory-grown tissue can be used to study diseases including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which has traditionally been difficult to study using conventional methods.

The UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program is training residents to qualify for jobs testing and handling hazardous waste materials in a multimillion-dollar cleanup of lead dust contamination.

Window washers dressed as Batman, Captain America, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and the Hulk descended from the roof of Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to greet patients.

Hendey, who completed his internship in medicine and residency in emergency medicine at UCLA 23 years ago, served as chief of emergency medicine at UC San Francisco School of Medicine's Fresno campus.

Though the test reduces the number of women undergoing radiation, researchers say doctors and policy makers should further discuss the value of using Oncotype DX DCIS.

Mindfulness, a practice that’s growing in popularity, has made its way into classrooms in Watts, thanks to the UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience and Support.

Spisso talks with U Magazine editor David Greenwald about the opportunities ahead for UCLA Health and her vision for the future.

The findings could provide scientists with a better understanding of how the brain goes awry in conditions like learning disorders and social anxiety disorder.

Parents doing things like isolating a child from all activity or waking a child from sleep to check in could actually be making their child’s symptoms worse.

The discovery opens up a new avenue of research into autism’s causes and potential therapies.

UCLA researchers say that given the dominance of public spending in health care, a single-payer system might be more feasible than previously thought.

The technique involved amplifying a protein signal without using enzymes, which takes the process from two to four hours down to 10 minutes.

Scientists find new autism-linked gene, and discover that autistic siblings don’t always have the same disease-related mutations.

A 25-year-old man made remarkable progress following a treatment at UCLA that uses sonic stimulation to excite the neurons in the thalamus.

Because the U.N. peacekeepers introduced cholera to Haiti, it’s imperative that the United Nations do whatever it can to prevent the disease from further ravaging the country.

The findings could also help speed research of CTE, helping scientists better understand its prevalence in the population and in studying potential therapies.

Professor Jonathan Fielding writes that without the necessary funds, fighting Zika, Ebola and other infectious diseases is a losing battle.

Findings from analyzing the body’s biological clock suggest that genetic or environmental factors linked to ethnicity may influence how quickly a person ages.

The research is the first to demonstrate how lifestyle factors directly influence abnormal proteins in people with subtle memory loss who have not yet been diagnosed with dementia.

The findings are a major step toward confirming an unusual theory of how some cancer cells metastasize, and the study could lead to new strategies for keeping melanoma from spreading.

Using the technology could improve nursing education by reducing the role of subjective assessments and by providing more consistent evaluations.

Dr. Jeffrey Veale writes that a program pioneered at UCLA could encourage more donations and reduce the number of deaths of those waiting for transplants.