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UCLA researchers’ findings could work against a broad range of viruses and protect against Zika and its associated neurological defects in mice and human brain models.

A committed partner for more than 20 years, the company now has provided more than $80 million to UCLA in support of the university and health care system.

The study could pave the way for understanding and treating neurological disorders, and for developing computers that “think” more like humans.

UCLA researchers found that a combination therapy going after stem cells and chemotherapy resulted in better outcomes.

Dr. David Talan is on a research team that's studying whether treating appendicitis solely with antibiotics can be a safe, effective and less expensive alternative to surgery.

UCLA study shows that delivering weight-management services online offers a convenient way to produce substantial improvements in health, at a relatively low cost.

Manipulating the stiffness or softness of T cells could help doctors harness the immune system to control disease.

The researchers identified genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, depression and several other disorders.

The Companion Care Program provides specially trained volunteers who offer individualized companionship to older adult patients while they are hospitalized.

Twenty-three high school students are getting a unique opportunity to launch their future careers in the health care field, thanks to a new hands-on internship program.

New recommendations are needed in part because people with cancer are living longer thanks to improved treatments, giving tumors more time to spread to other parts of the body.

Researchers found that exposure to the pollution caused mice to experience changes in the normal composition of gut bacteria. This in turn produced a cascade of negative health effects.

UCLA-led study of DNA patterns in tumor cells suggests that the abundance of aberrant genetic signatures common in more aggressive cancers is not random.

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos has woven together his interests in global health, medicine and culture into a career as a medical anthropologist.

Dr. Richard Boxer, a visiting professor of urology at UCLA, argues that giving states money to provide high-deductible plans with health savings accounts could save Medicaid.

While boxes of decadent chocolate treats, celebratory champagne and romantic, high-calorie dinners may dance in your mind as a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, your heart may be pining for something else.

UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Larissa Mooney explains in this Q&A how allowing pharmacies to dispense naloxone leads to a reduction in overdoses.

Researchers at UCLA found the same types of abnormalities in the study’s e-cigarette users that are found in tobacco cigarette users. These abnormalities are associated with increased cardiac risk.

The new protocol opens the door to researchers who want to make muscle, bone and cartilage cells in the lab; the scientists plan to study whether the method could be help treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

UCLA biologists are exploring ways to defeat antibiotic-resistant bacteria; a mathematical formula they created can help predict which combinations of drugs will be most effective.

UCLA researchers determined for the first time why some people with advanced melanoma or advanced colon cancer will not respond to pembrolizumab.

For generations, doctors told women who were born with complex congenital heart defects that the physical demands of pregnancy would be too difficult for them.

The study is the first to evaluate the medication as a possible treatment for alcoholism.

A UCLA-led research team has identified a drug and dose regimen that may cut the time by as much as 75 percent, while simultaneously reducing the risk that patients could develop drug-resistant TB.

Researchers have demonstrated how specialized proteins are able to change the cellular characteristics of skin cells and create induced pluripotent stem cells, which have the ability to turn into any cell type in the body. The findings could influence the creation of healthy tissues to cure disease.