Health + Behavior

New findings by UCLA neurophysicists could be significant for people who use virtual reality for gaming, military, commercial, scientific or other purposes.

New research provides a better understanding of how osteonecrosis of the jaw progresses and could guide the development of therapeutic and preventive measures.

Understanding the self-replication mechanisms is critical for improving stem cell therapies for blood-related diseases and cancers.

Dr. Jeremy M. Blumberg, an assistant professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and surgical director of renal transplantation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, reminisces about a past Thanksgiving when he was asked to recover the organs of an infant who had drowned.

For patients who have baffling problems with talking, breathing, singing or swallowing, the UCLA Voice Center for Medicine and the Arts can be an oasis in a desert of inconclusive tests, endless doctors’ appointments and despair.

More than half a million older Californians — 12.6 percent of the state’s senior population — fall more than once a year, but nearly 60 percent of them fail to seek medical attention afterward, according to a UCLA study.

Eighteen children with SCID have been cured of the disease after receiving the therapy in clinical trials at UCLA and the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers assessed 190 U.N. countries’ progress toward fulfilling their commitments to the right to education, protection from child labor and child marriage, and discrimination against children with disabilities.

UCLA is marking the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 20 by introducing a new technology tool to help smokers seen in the UCLA Health System quit for good.

The scientists created the largest protein ever that self-assembles into a molecular “cage.” The protein is hundreds of times smaller than a human cell.

Research from the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine shows how Eastern and Western medicine can blend to find solutions to this common medical problem.

UCLA is one of 20 colleges and universities, and the only postsecondary institution in California, participating in the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Healthier Campus Initiative.

When adult mice with Noonan syndrome were treated with lovastatin, their memory and ability to remember objects and navigate mazes improved dramatically.

UCLA School of Dentistry researchers show that electric field-induced release and measurement is a reliable way to detect tumor-causing mutations that would be more cost-effective and efficient.

The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Heart Failure Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award recognizes the hospital’s work implementing quality improvement measures.

As a tribute to the couple, the UCLA Center for Health Sciences Plaza was renamed the Irma and Norman Switzer Plaza.

A service of UCLA's California Health Interview Survey, AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition allows users to quickly find health disparities within specific cities or legislative districts.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will escort a delegation of Los Angeles leaders to China to attend a Nov. 19 ceremony celebrating UCLA Health’s partnership with Centre Testing International on an advanced medical laboratory in Shanghai.

UCLA study finds that a protein linked to neurological disorders is also associated with head and neck cancer in people who are infected with human papilloma virus.

Researchers suggest that practicing the ancient Chinese martial art could potentially lower the risk for cancer recurrence and other chronic diseases in cancer survivors.

The world has backed away from supporting contraception in the developing world because of politics, said the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress will work with the defense department to train health specialists who work on military bases to provide assistance for military families affected by traumatic stress.

The disease may be more harmful than previously thought, say UCLA researchers, who found genetic damage is present not only in the lungs but also in circulating blood.

UCLA researchers have developed a standard to assess how closely stem cell culture conditions in the lab resemble a developing embryo.

Study by UCLA and Rand Corporation found that three states that enacted malpractice reform saw no change in doctors’ use of expensive imaging tests and rates of hospitalization following emergency visits.