Health + Behavior

Research brief: The advance could accelerate large-scale testing and diagnosis of people with genetic and metabolic disorders.

Dr. Abbas Ardehali said the success will provide valuable insights for other transplant programs.

The former Bruins basketball player has committed $500,000 through his foundation — matched by a $500,000 UCLA Centennial Term Chair Match.

Research brief: The study used data on 20,000 people hospitalized for influenza in New York.

UCLA is closely monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19 and departments are working closely with local, state and national officials.

The film collects chemical signals from sweat and converts them into electrical ones that can be processed and displayed on a watch.

U.S. News & World Report has recognized the hospital for its national excellence in seven pediatric specialties.

Researchers will focus on an immunotherapy known as CAR T, which uses genetically modified stem cells to target and destroy the virus.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor Marc Suchard will co-lead the effort, which has received funding from the National Institutes of Health.

A unique approach developed at UCLA suggests a possible path toward treatments for other types of severe infection.

As professors were forced to change how they teach, the Fiat Lux seminars provided a platform to also change what they taught to help students understand the crisis.

Researchers also found that cognitive behavior therapy was the most effective approach for boosting the immune system.

Research brief: Findings from a UCLA study indicate some men may not require the intensive treatment they have traditionally received.

Yalda Uhls writes that people shouldn’t obsessively fear that screen time is stunting kids’ emotional development.

TranslateCovid.org is an effort by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Asian American Studies Center to help vulnerable communities.

Amita Sehgal, a neuroscientist at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, won the award honoring excellence in basic science research.

The award from the National Cancer Institute will fund a series of collaborative research projects over five years at UCLA.

The blood cells, part of the body's first line of defense against infection, have been notoriously difficult to genetically engineer.

A study in zebrafish identified how air pollutants contribute to the buildup of toxic proteins associated with the disease.

UCLA and five other Los Angeles medical centers launch a public service campaign.

The program, called SuEIR, takes into account the number of cases categorized as susceptible, unreported, exposed, infectious and recovered.

Half of apartment dwellers in the city say they have been exposed to unwanted secondhand smoke in their homes in the last year.

Thousands of individuals across the state will be trained in public health techniques and strategies, including contact tracing and case investigation.

The United States is one of 11 countries that do not mandate some form of paid leave at the national level.

The immunotherapy drug combination is currently being reviewed for approval under a new FDA pilot program.