Health + Behavior

Finding may have implications for preventing stroke and diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease earlier.

Dr. Gary Mathern, an expert in complicated seizure disorders, was selected as the chair holder. His accomplishments have built upon the work of his mentor, Dr. Paul Crandall.

The voluntary credentialing program for hospitals recognizes excellence in professional nursing practice.

A new UCLA program offers hope and potential answers for people who have undergone extensive medical testing but still don’t know what is causing their symptoms.

One of the three variations appears to be fundamentally a different condition than the other two, said Dr. Dale Bredesen, a UCLA professor of neurology.

Dr. Mario Deng writes about a new smaller artificial heart that could holds promise for smaller-sized people, including children.

In fitness-crazed Southern California, two UCLA Anderson School of Management classmates developed a business using DXA scanners that give people a comprehensive analysis identifying both the amount and location of fat and lean tissue in their bodies.

New UCLA-led research may produce a new way to predict health declines and, potentially, intervene to delay them.

The findings could lead to better early detection of drug-resistant tumor cells and new therapies to suppress resistance as soon as therapy begins.

Men under stress provide worse emotional support to their partners than women do, an international team of psychologists reports today.

For his courage dealing with sickle cell anemia, 9-year-old Luc Bodden was designated the fourth “Kid Captain” by Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and the football team.

Other diagnostic tools may be more efficient and cost-effective for the general population, although genetic screening remains valuable for women in groups known to carry certain genetic mutations.

The effort will be based at five academic research centers in three states, including California, but is intended to be a national resource.

Until doctors filled a tiny hole in her inner ear, Rachel Pyne suffered from superior semicircular canal dehiscence, which made her suffer through the sounds of her heart beating, her food digesting and even the shifting of her eyes.

Aided by a “robotic exoskeleton” device, the 39-year-old man was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles and take thousands of steps.

Method combines the chemotherapy drug decitabine with adoptive cell transfer, in which a patient’s own immune cells are reprogrammed to target brain cancer.

The study found that obstructive sleep apnea contributes to a breakdown of the blood–brain barrier, which protects brain tissue.

The UCLA Blood and Platelet Center has grown remarkably since accepting its first blood donation 40 years ago. Today, it’s the largest hospital-based donor center of its kind in the western United States.

Men who buy sex have less empathy for women in prostitution than men who don’t buy sex, and they are more likely to report having committed rape and other acts of sexual aggression.

Nearly 1 in 5 older adults in California live in an economic no-man’s land, unable to afford basic needs, according to a study by the UCLA Center of Health Policy Research.

The sports network told the story of how Andrew Goldstein’s courageous story of coming out as gay to his college lacrosse teammates many years ago led to a friendship with a boy who contemplated suicide after coming out.

Dr. Kelsey Martin, a senior administrator and longtime faculty member who specializes in understanding how the brain stores memories, has been named interim dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, campus officials said today.

At UCLA, there's a small but growing field of study looking into sex and gender biology.

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released the California Health Interview Survey for both 2013 and 2014, which contain data about a wide range of health care topics from surveys of more than 20,000 participants each year.

UCLA-led study draws data from national database of more than 100,000 people treated for heart failure between 2005 and 2014.