Health + Behavior

The discovery of the cells that contribute to the healthy growth of the placenta could help scientists track fetal development — and identify factors that cause it to go awry.

Gudelia Bustamante is thinking big when it comes to planning for the future. Camping, fishing and a trip to visit her son stationed at an Air Force base in Germany are on her to-do list.      While that may not sound all that...

Professor Ann Williams and Dr. Roger Detels began collaborating on AIDS research and treatment in China 15 years ago — around the same time that World AIDS Day, marked every year on Dec. 1, was established to unite people around the globe in the...

A study by researchers at UCLA and the University of Texas reveals gender differences in sexual regret and traces them back to our evolutionary past.

Study results shed light on how genetic changes cause autism on a molecular level and will help scientists identify targets for future autism research.

About 60 percent of all children between the ages of 2 and 5, and 70 percent of Latino kids, eat fast food regularly, and many don't get enough fruits and vegetables, a UCLA study shows.

The company's $4 million gift will help foster better consultation, collaboration and care among UCLA doctors, medical institutions and the military for the benefit of severely wounded warriors.

The biomarker could help doctors predict early on, just after the onset of motor symptoms, how rapidly the disease will progress.

Method could make initial cancer screenings easier for doctors with limited resources, and could help determine cancer cells' drug sensitivity.

Results of the study, led by UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, should help oncologists make better use of BRAF inhibitor drugs in combination with other drugs for melanoma patients.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which represents 18,726 University of California employees, including 4000 at UCLA, has asked its members to strike at UC campuses on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Check here for news updates.

Flexible smartphone screens, room-illuminating curtains and nanodiamonds that deliver chemotherapy directly into tumors are among the innovations resulting from the joint work of UCLA and private industry.

Los Angeles, is a city of two food worlds that collide at the Grand Central Market downtown. Thinking L.A., sponsored by UCLA, took up the topic.

Kids with anxiety disorders can perceive neutral information as threatening depending on how it is presented, and when they do, their medial prefrontal cortex kicks into high gear.

Men with prostate cancer who eat a low-fat diet with fish oil supplements have lower levels of pro-inflammatory substances in their blood and, potentially, less aggressive disease, UCLA researchers say.

"The Science of Making Friends," by UCLA's Elizabeth Laugeson, teaches social skills to teens and young adults with autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression and other social impairments.

The UCLA scientists' technique uses two types of nanoparticles, the first clearing a path into tumor cells for the second, which delivers chemotherapy drugs.

Thirty years ago, the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. contacted the UCLA School of Nursing with an intriguing request: Would the school be interested in providing services to homeless adults and children staying at the mission?

The new Global Media Center for Social Impact will help screenwriters weave realistic, complex ethics and health issues into their scripts.

The tomatoes, designed to mimic the effect of "good" cholesterol, reduced the negative activity of unsaturated lysophosphatidic acids, which are found in the small intestine.

The multicenter trial is one of the most advanced studies using stem cells to treat angina patients who haven't responded to other therapies.

The findings of the UCLA research team may be relevant to other hormone-driven cancers as well, including breast, prostate and ovarian tumors.

A team of more than 200 UCLA health professionals helped staff a free health care clinic that provided vital basic medical services to approximately 3,000 uninsured and underserved people at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.

UCLA researchers created a multisensory virtual world for rats that allowed them to study for the first time how navigation and the expectation of a reward are connected.

The gift from Patrick Soon-Shiong, executive director of UCLA's Wireless Health Institute, and his wife, Michele, will support cross-campus programs focused on global health.