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“Parents should be patient and not expect everything to go back to how it was before,” said UCLA professor Bridget Callaghan.

Research brief: Physicians frequently order preventive medical services that are considered unnecessary and of “low value” by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

A UCLA team recommends state-level policy changes to improve health insurance coverage, participation in clinical trials and access to palliative care.

Kenneth Lange has written four advanced textbooks and published more than 200 scientific papers in the areas of genetic epidemiology, population genetics and other subjects.

Under the proposed policy, the university would require students, faculty, academic appointees and staff who are accessing campus facilities to be immunized against SARS-CoV-2.

A UCLA study identifies a cell therapy that can stop progressive damage and stimulate the brain’s repair processes in mice.

The research also spotlights a significant income gap between white and Black male doctors.

Campus to embrace “flex work” as it plans to ramp up in-person teaching and learning in fall. A student town hall will be held April 26.

The trend was seen across all the racial and ethnic groups studied and could provide insight into improving vaccination rates for COVID-19 and other illnesses.

A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, he also was associate director of the Center for Health Policy Research for 25 years.

UCLA sociologist Patrick Heuveline reports on the dramatic impact in the U.S. and other nations.

Research brief: A UCLA team has demonstrated that altering a key molecule used in the therapy yields superior and longer-lasting results in mouse models.

The project is the first to use the Nobel prize–winning technology to directly correct sickle mutation in blood stem cells.

Dr. Elizabeth Barnert’s research into El Salvador’s “disappeared” children points to a role for genetics in reunification.

UCLA Professor David Shorter’s Archive of Healing is one of the largest databases of medicinal folklore from around the world.

Yang’s research reveals how genetic and environmental factors can disrupt gene networks.

Only 1 in 10 people diagnosed with this aggressive disease live beyond five years, and most current therapies have been unsuccessful in treating it.

Third vaccine OK’d for emergency use is safe, highly effective.

Professors Robert Damoiseaux and Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami led a collaboration among scientists from the U.S. and Germany.

The study, conducted in mice, opens a path for exploring treatments that combine epigenetic approaches with therapies that use the body’s natural immune response.

Study finds bilingual infants become interested in speech at the same age as those learning only one language.

The discussion also included how campus would expand in-person operations as vaccinations increase and infections decline.

A UCLA study suggests that a lack of access to proper outpatient care among Black patients exacerbated existing racial health disparities.

The advance could be a step toward the development of treatments for muscle loss or damage due to injury, age or disease.

Leading the research for UCLA are Istvan Mody, Varghese John and S. Thomas Carmichael.