Health + Behavior

UCLA researchers found that by attaching drugs to the tiny particles and injecting them directly into tumors, the drugs' efficiency was boosted and damage to surrounding tissue was minimized.

An Institute of Medicine committee chaired by UCLA's Patricia Ganz says urgent changes are needed to improve cancer care as baby boomers age and new therapies arise.

The UCLA-RAND study found that one of every 10 patients in the ICU received care that wouldn't improve or save their lives, at a cost of approximately $4,000 a day.

The new type of IBS, which follows a bout of diverticulitis, may help scientists get closer to the causes of the condition. "It's such a common condition, and there may be different flavors," they say.

As a sports fan with expertise in biomechanical engineering, UCLA professor Vijay Gupta marvels at the efficient, effective way the human body is built. But the head wasn’t designed to withstand the shockwaves resulting from a collision with a 250-pound football player wearing a helmet.

A team led by Aydogan Ozcan has developed a smartphone add-on that would allow people at risk for diabetes, kidney disease and other ailments to test themselves instead of having to visit a doctor.

Los Angeles Laker Jordan Farmar, a former Bruin, stopped by UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, to visit sick kids and cancer patients.

The awarding of $11.6 million in federal funding from the National Cancer Institute to enable a multidisciplinary group of UCLA scientists to continue their important prostate cancer research is just the latest in a string of "big hits" for the team.

The UCLA Specialized Program of Research Excellence team is a multidisciplinary group of scientists striving to find a cure for a cancer that will affect roughly one in six men.

The experimental treatment may also decrease the need for liver or intestinal transplants and lower the risk mortality in young patients suffering intestinal failure, UCLA researchers say.

"These findings suggest that even men with prostate cancer can take control of their disease and moderate its aggressiveness through diet and lifestyle choices," said UCLA's Lenore Arab.

The positive effects of creating websites and blogging were particularly strong for women in active medical treatment, most of whom had metastatic disease, UCLA researchers said.

Easily accessible through an online app, UCLA-developed research maps help neuroscientists quickly scan what is already known in their field and plan their next study.

The biennial survey, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the largest amd most comprehensive state health survey in the nation.

"We are honored to work with the Doheny Eye Institute board in developing a plan to improve patient care throughout Southern California," said UCLA Health System CEO Dr. David Feinberg.

"These findings would represent a major challenge to existing theories of a sex 'addiction,' " said UCLA's Nicole Prause, who studied the brain responses of individuals with hypersexual problems.

In the current American Journal of Public Health, UCLA's Dr. Richard Jackson discusses advances in community design that help make our cities better for our health.

More than half of the world's countries have some constitutional protection of a right to public health and medical care for their citizens -- but not the U.S., a new study shows.

A UCLA-led research team examining Indian immigrants in California found an association between religiosity and obesity in Hindus and Sikhs — but not Muslims.

As part of their collaboration, UCLA and Children's Hospital will establish a nursing research department to give frontline staff the opportunity to get involved in clinical studies.

A new medicinal herb garden on the south side of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, sparks dialogue about the natural healing properties of plants.

Brain aneurysms of all sizes -- even small ones the size of a pea-- are up to 12 times more likely to rupture if they are growing, according to a new UCLA study.

Narcoleptics have far less hypocretin, a chemical linked to alertness, in their brains than healthy people. A new study zeroes in on just what's killing hypocretin cells off.

Today's drugs are designed to target amyloid beta plaques, while the real culprit, researchers say, may be small clumps of amyloid beta called oligomers.

Doctors rarely discuss supplements in detail with patients taking them. But given their popularity, availability and potential risks, more should be done, researchers urge.