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A gift from Dr. Bronwyn Bateman will establish a new center at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute.

The device assesses cortisol levels found in sweat accurately, noninvasively and in real time.

The findings could improve doctors’ ability to offer truly personalized cancer therapy.

Heumann will be joined by Andy Imparato and Vivian Haun, both of Disability Rights California, on Feb. 10 at 4 p.m.

Research brief: Additional services to monitor the drug’s potential side effects account for nearly 20% of its total costs, a UCLA-led study shows.

The institute will collaborate with a community of chefs and scholars in pursuit of a healthier population and planet.

While the situation improved, economically disadvantaged patients were far less likely to return to using services at normal, pre-pandemic levels.

UCLA epidemiologist Robert Kim-Farley reflects on how the U.S. has coped with the pandemic.

The UCLA-led analysis, the largest to date on COVID-19 and breast milk, examined samples from 110 lactating women.

UCLA’s new analysis will help guide Medi-Cal as it expands coordinated care to all eligible participants in the state.

The meeting addressed topics ranging from how to get free masks to the factors under consideration for returning to in-person work and learning.

A UCLA study suggests that new small-molecule drugs that inhibit a protein called ATR could be used in combination with interferon “amplification.”

The study, which used mice, could point toward a method for clearing the virus from people who would otherwise depend on medication.

The substance, Tg6F, contains anti-inflammatory and antioxidant peptides.

Campus leaders said they plan to resume in-person classes after this move to promote the health of the Bruin community.

The UCLA-led research also indicates that the primary culprit in smokers’ increased risk is not nicotine but other chemicals in tobacco smoke.

Classes will begin as scheduled on Jan. 3. The moves are designed to reduce the risk of a rise in new COVID-19 cases in light of the omicron variant.

After more than two years, Marley Gaskins, the first child to receive the innovative treatment for LAD-1, remains disease-free.

Professors continued helping us better understand our world with their research, students kept excelling and UCLA showed how it helps make Los Angeles a world-class city.

The gift will in part fund the research of Dr. Deena Goldwater, a UCLA geriatric cardiologist.

Meet the new director of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

Research brief: Adding a protein called viral polymerase to vaccines could potentially create a more robust, enduring immune response, scientists say.

A UCLA study raises the possibility that vaccine boosters may be equally effective in improving antibodies’ ability to target multiple variants of the virus.

Forty years ago, when a UCLA physician published a three-page report first identifying the disease that would become known as AIDS, few imagined the devastating toll that would follow.

UCLA’s Brad Sears has observed how the current pandemic has been shaped by what we did and did not learn in the past 40 years.