Health + Behavior

UCLA study finds that only 3.7 percent of people with pre-diabetes were prescribed metformin.

Study by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research finds that elderly Japanese-Americans could provide clues about how all Americans can stay healthier longer.

Students at a high school in La Cañada Flintridge participate in a School of Nursing research project on congenital heart disease at the request of a beloved teacher.

Women who experience extreme morning sickness during pregnancy are three times more likely to have children with developmental issues, according to a UCLA study.

Using a tumor rejection antigen to identify stem cells could help ensure stem cell research studies are accurate.

Launched in 2013, the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative will celebrate its successes and honor individuals who have helped to promote health in many different ways across the campus.

The results “have the potential to substantively change the way that lung cancer is treated,” said Dr. Edward Garon, a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Developed under the leadership of UCLA’s Dr. Antoni Ribas, the drug has signaled a paradigm shift in the way melanoma is treated.

The UCLA Center for World Health and its partners currently participate in 170 projects in 65 countries worldwide. It focuses not only on education, training and capacity building to improve health, but projects also include research and clinical care initiatives.

Using a new stent retriever device in addition to a clot-busting drug led to a significant increase in the percentage of stroke sufferers who could function independently three months later.

Only 9 percent of academic medical practices in the U.S. have procedures to connect patients with LGBT-competent physicians; only 4 percent had policies to identify those physicians.

A majority of doctors surveyed believe ACA will steer the country’s health care in the right direction. Doctors’ stance on the law appeared to be closely correlated with their political affiliations and medical specialties.

Political science professor Michael Chwe writes about having his book “Rational Ritual,” which is about the popularization of knowledge, chosen by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a book club selection.

UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology is holding its first-ever, grand-scale robotic surgical training sessions over two days, concluding today. 

A social psychologist at UCLA Anderson explores how human behavior can be modified by bringing people closer to their future selves.

Students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television made the videos to provide insight into how young adults can handle circumstances related to alcohol use and sexual consent, micro-aggressions and body image.

Wealthier women living in communities with larger income gaps are most likely to get a test that can help determine the best way to treat early-stage breast cancer.

The research is another step toward the early diagnosis of CTE, a degenerative brain condition that affects athletes in contact sports who are exposed to repetitive brain injuries.

New research might explain why people with HIV develop age-related illnesses about 14 years before their peers who do not have the virus.

UCLA researchers showed that shock treatment changes certain areas of the brain that play a role in how people feel, learn and respond to environmental factors.

Triathlete Greg Parks and actor Larry Miller recently appeared at the Reagan UCLA Medical Center to share the experience of recovering from a major brain injury.

Of 85 UCLA undergraduate students, only one correctly recalled the Apple logo when asked to draw it on a blank sheet of paper. Fewer than half correctly identified the logo when shown several options.

The study provides the most detailed information to date about the timing of the immune system’s recovery in school-age children with HIV.

The finding marks the final step in an international consortium’s successful effort to develop a unified and reliable approach to assessing signs of Alzheimer’s-related neurodegeneration through structural imaging tests.

The information collected from this statistically representative sample of transgender-identified individuals led by researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law could be used to help craft better public policy.