Health + Behavior

A new public service campaign will inform apartment tenants about the risks of secondhand smoke and provide tools for working with landlords on smoke-free policies.

UCLA researchers found that workouts, in addition to brain games, appear to trigger a protein that restores connections between neurons.

The approach can help physicians identify disorders that may have gone undiagnosed for years. UCLA has been a leader in using the test since 2012.

UCLA-led study finds that drugs commonly used to combat the condition actually increase the risk of fracture, meaning that taking them is worse than doing nothing at all.

Psychology professor A. Janet Tomiyama notes that some 34.4 million of the 70 million-plus Americans categorized as “overweight” by BMI were perfectly healthy.

The researchers found that an experimental drug called CD532, which changes the structure of a key protein, reduced the size of tumors in mice by 80 percent.

Two-thirds of the Californians who didn’t have health insurance in 2014 were actually eligible for coverage, but many did not enroll because of the cost.

People who performed two tasks that combined seeing and hearing frequently show that vision influenced their hearing, and vice versa.

A new study by UCLA scientists shows that a long-held assumption might have actually impeded research on how to repair spinal cord injuries.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield were part of a panel discussing the downside of the digital revolution at a Zócalo/UCLA event at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Thyrosim can be used by clinicians, researchers and educators to gauge the impacts of thyroid treatments and to develop more effective remedies for thyroid problems.

Technique developed at UCLA automatically readjusts drug-dose combinations to zero in on the most effective ones.

Funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will support work to genetically engineer immune cells to fight cancer.

Psychiatry professor Marco Iacoboni writes about the role empathy-generating mirror neurons play in creating feelings of community in our collective sports fandom.

The initiative will train a new generation to help achieve a set of ambitious U.N.-approved goals to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance education and make cities more sustainable.

Pandemonium broke out today, Match Day, on the terrace at Covel Commons when 165 medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ripped open envelopes to find out where they have been accepted for residency.

How to tell if you’re sleep deprived, how much sleep is optimal and things you can do to make sure you get the rest you need to stay healthy.

By temporarily inactivating a part of the brain involved in impulse control, the researchers discovered compelling evidence that humans are predisposed to be generous to others.

The research provides the first evidence that a mother’s cortisol patterns before conception influence the weight of her baby.

More than 1 in 9 people around the world do not have access to safe, clean drinking water, and the problem is expected to worsen due in part to climate change.

Discovery is an important step in the effort to better understand and treat aggressive childhood leukemia.

Three physicians write about how a determination to breast feed pushed even them to ignore their own advice for new mothers that breastfeeding at all costs might not be the right choice.

Research provides the first analysis and breakdown of California prediabetes rates by county, age and ethnicity.

Statement on behalf of the UCLA community from Chancellor Gene Block and Dr. John Mazziotta, Vice Chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences, and CEO of UCLA Health.

Seth and Lauren Rogen have formed Hilarity for Charity to spread the word about Alzheimer's to millennials.