Health + Behavior

A team from the UCLA Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory is advancing the prevention and treatment of ACL injuries, which are skyrocketing.

An expert discussion jointly sponsored by UCLA and Zocálo, explored the ethical challenges around death that arise in an age of tremendous advances in medical treatment.

Post-acute care accounts for some $62 billion in annual Medicare spending, but spending varies widely across different parts of the U.S., suggesting that some medical centers may be using these services too often.

The advance could make it much more efficient to build nanoelectronic and nanobioelectronic devices that could measure brain cell and circuit function in real time.

The study is the first to look at disease progression in the synapses, where brain cells transmit impulses.

At an emotional event, the Sincuir family met three of the 27 people who had donated 50 units of blood products to save Jorge Sincuir’s life.

Findings suggest that oversharing personal emotions or information violates the unwritten rules of social media websites.

People who become targets of discrimination can suffer effects ranging from low self-esteem to a higher risk for developing stress-related disorders such as anxiety and depression.

UCLA researchers say that results suggest a possible mental health benefit for some people who have the weight loss surgery.

The research is a significant step forward in the use of human embryonic stem cells for heart regeneration.

UCLA scientists’ finding could lead to new therapies for the disorder, which affects one in 68 children in the United States.

The UCLA Vanpool Program is one of the largest employer-based vanpool programs in California.

Johnese Spisso, a nationally recognized academic health care leader, will oversee all operations of UCLA’s hospitals and clinics as well as the health system’s regional outreach strategy, effective Feb. 8.

The approach focuses on a protein called p53, which is commonly mutated in women who have high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

Through a systematic review of Alzheimer’s studies, Ron Brookmeyer’s team at UCLA has found that the rate of being diagnosed with the disease doubles every five years in older populations.

Data may still underestimate the nation’s homicide rate, researchers say.

The founding director of UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center is now vice chancellor for UCLA Health Sciences and chief executive officer of UCLA Health. And he’s still in awe of the brain and its complicated choreography.

UCLA’s Dr. Steven Dubinett said the vision of philanthropists like Linda and Michael Keston “lays the groundwork for breakthroughs.”

Dr. Vernon Rosario, an expert on LGBT mental health issues, comments on "The Danish Girl," a movie about one of the first individuals to undergo a sex change.

UCLA scientists are working at the forefront of technological advances in an era of personalized health care treatment and research that challenges our imaginations.

The initiative will allow the next generation of leaders and change agents to understand and improve the health of veterans, and of the nation.

Families OverComing Under Stress, or FOCUS, was able to reduce the most problematic psychological and emotional symptoms of men and women in the military, their spouses and their children for half of its participants.

Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa Alvarez, the formerly conjoined Guatemalan twins who were  separated in 2002 in a landmark 23-hour surgery, returned to Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to visit sick children.

The findings could be an important step toward personalized medicine for women with the disease, said UCLA’s Dr. Patricia Ganz.

Of the 47 geographical areas the researchers analyzed, 20 had significantly higher percentages of people with advanced-stage disease than the U.S. norm.