Health + Behavior

Kids with anxiety disorders can perceive neutral information as threatening depending on how it is presented, and when they do, their medial prefrontal cortex kicks into high gear.

Men with prostate cancer who eat a low-fat diet with fish oil supplements have lower levels of pro-inflammatory substances in their blood and, potentially, less aggressive disease, UCLA researchers say.

"The Science of Making Friends," by UCLA's Elizabeth Laugeson, teaches social skills to teens and young adults with autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression and other social impairments.

Thirty years ago, the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. contacted the UCLA School of Nursing with an intriguing request: Would the school be interested in providing services to homeless adults and children staying at the mission?

The new Global Media Center for Social Impact will help screenwriters weave realistic, complex ethics and health issues into their scripts.

The tomatoes, designed to mimic the effect of "good" cholesterol, reduced the negative activity of unsaturated lysophosphatidic acids, which are found in the small intestine.

The multicenter trial is one of the most advanced studies using stem cells to treat angina patients who haven't responded to other therapies.

The findings of the UCLA research team may be relevant to other hormone-driven cancers as well, including breast, prostate and ovarian tumors.

A team of more than 200 UCLA health professionals helped staff a free health care clinic that provided vital basic medical services to approximately 3,000 uninsured and underserved people at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.

UCLA researchers created a multisensory virtual world for rats that allowed them to study for the first time how navigation and the expectation of a reward are connected.

The gift from Patrick Soon-Shiong, executive director of UCLA's Wireless Health Institute, and his wife, Michele, will support cross-campus programs focused on global health.

The drug, called MK-3475, which had already shown effectiveness in treating melanoma, shrank tumors in nearly a fourth of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Using the clock, researchers can gauge the age of diverse human organs and tissues. Unexpectedly, they found some parts of the anatomy, like women's breast tissue, age faster than the rest of the body.

The researchers analyzed subjects' brains using a branch of mathematics known as graph theory, which is often used to study air-traffic patterns.

While the overall number of kids who drink sodas daily has started to decline, there has been an alarming 8 percent jump in consumption among teens.

While only a third of laser hair-removal procedures are performed by non-physicians, 75 percent of hair-removal lawsuits involve non-physicians, said UCLA's H. Ray Jalian.

A study led by UCLA's Dr. Gregg Fonarow found that hospitals recognized by the national Get With The Guildelines program showed greater achievement than others.

An analysis method developed by UCLA's Raphael Levine allows scientists to look at how cancer cells use energy when expressing critical genes that allow them grow.

The new center aims to increase awareness of important public health issues by harnessing the storytelling power of television, film and new media.

UCLA researchers found that the drug stimulated receptors in CD4 T cells that allowed these immune cells to be infected, leading to new production of the virus.

The new Teaching and Learning Center will bring medical instruction into the 21st century, with a focus on cutting-edge technologies and innovative teaching methods.

In a clinical trial, patients whose doctors were given access to early brain scans showed better executive function, memory and overall cognitive ability over a two-year period.

When Terry Dunlap arrived at the ER with a massive clot, doctors gave him two choices: open-heart surgery or a new minimally invasive procedure. But there was a catch.

Researchers find that nanodiamonds can be a less-invasive and longer-lasting method of administering the proteins that aid in bone growth.

The small, lightweight device, which featuresa a color filter, an external lens and a laser diode, can be fabricated using a 3-D printer.