Health + Behavior

A majority of doctors surveyed believe ACA will steer the country’s health care in the right direction. Doctors’ stance on the law appeared to be closely correlated with their political affiliations and medical specialties.

Political science professor Michael Chwe writes about having his book “Rational Ritual,” which is about the popularization of knowledge, chosen by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a book club selection.

UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology is holding its first-ever, grand-scale robotic surgical training sessions over two days, concluding today. 

A social psychologist at UCLA Anderson explores how human behavior can be modified by bringing people closer to their future selves.

Students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television made the videos to provide insight into how young adults can handle circumstances related to alcohol use and sexual consent, micro-aggressions and body image.

Wealthier women living in communities with larger income gaps are most likely to get a test that can help determine the best way to treat early-stage breast cancer.

The research is another step toward the early diagnosis of CTE, a degenerative brain condition that affects athletes in contact sports who are exposed to repetitive brain injuries.

New research might explain why people with HIV develop age-related illnesses about 14 years before their peers who do not have the virus.

UCLA researchers showed that shock treatment changes certain areas of the brain that play a role in how people feel, learn and respond to environmental factors.

Triathlete Greg Parks and actor Larry Miller recently appeared at the Reagan UCLA Medical Center to share the experience of recovering from a major brain injury.

Of 85 UCLA undergraduate students, only one correctly recalled the Apple logo when asked to draw it on a blank sheet of paper. Fewer than half correctly identified the logo when shown several options.

The study provides the most detailed information to date about the timing of the immune system’s recovery in school-age children with HIV.

The finding marks the final step in an international consortium’s successful effort to develop a unified and reliable approach to assessing signs of Alzheimer’s-related neurodegeneration through structural imaging tests.

The information collected from this statistically representative sample of transgender-identified individuals led by researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law could be used to help craft better public policy.

New treatment platform may solve some of the problems of treating pancreas cancer with chemotherapy.

To reach a vulnerable population largely unaware of the health risks, a team from the Fielding School of Public Health held small group discussions in more than 50 Los Angeles-area Korean churches.

Although the implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems to have helped, public health experts expect that Latinos will continue to have problems accessing high-quality health care.

UCLA researchers discovered that visual cues associated with overweight or obese people can influence one’s sense of smell.

The combination of two cancer-targeted therapies and immunotherapy helps a person’s immune system attack cancerous tumors and does so with fewer side effects.

The center, to be led by Michael Fanselow, will focus on brain health and developing novel methods to get the unhealthy brain back to the healthy state.

A series of mental training exercises has been shown to help mitigate the effects of “chemo brain,” which affects up to 35 percent of women after their treatments for breast cancer.

The new program will provide opportunities for nurses and physicians to serve as full partners in health care redesign, improvement and research.

The doctors developed a predictive “calculator” called a nomogram after analyzing 30 years’ worth of data from liver transplants for people with liver cancer.

The study, led by UCLA’s Dr. Alan Kaplan, was the first to describe cost across the entire care process for the condition.

Inventors hope the device can help people battle obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other problems related to nutrition.