UCLA researchers found that women with IBS cannot effectively turn-off a pain modulation mechanism in the brain, which causes them to be more sensitive to abdominal pain, compared to women without IBS. The findings may lead to a greater understanding of irritable bowel syndrome and new treatment approaches.
Newly homeless youth are likelier to engage in risky sexual behavior if they stay in nonfamily settings "” such as friends' homes, abandoned buildings or the streets "”because they lack supervision and social support.
A UCLA study demonstrates that the nervous system can reorganize itself after spinal cord injury and use new pathways to restore the cellular communication required for walking. Published in the January edition of Nature Medicine, the discovery could lead to new therapies for the estimated 250,000 Americans who suffer from paralysis following traumatic spinal cord injuries.
UCLA researchers report that omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), found in fish oil, increases the production of LR11, a protein that is found at reduced levels in Alzheimer's patients and which is known to destroy the the "plaques" associated with the disease.
Using fMRI, UCLA researchers reveal clear differences in the areas of the brain involved in belief, disbelief, and uncertainty. Their results suggest that the differences among these cognitive states may one day be distinguished reliably, in real time, by techniques of neuroimaging.
A new UCLA study has found that elementary schools can significantly increase the frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption among low-income students by providing a lunch salad bar.
The Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA has named University of Arizona's Richard Lane as the recipient of its annual Mani Bhaumik Award. The award was established last year to support scientists who advance the understanding of the brain and the conscious mind in healing.
Though they look normal, people suffering from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) see themselves as ugly and disfigured. New imaging research reveals that the brains of people with BDD function abnormally when processing visual details. Reported in December's Archives of General Psychiatry, the UCLA findings are the first to demonstrate a biological reason for patients' distorted self-image.
A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists were able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples using leading-edge nanotechnology that measures the softness of the cells.
Robert and Kelly Day have donated $30 million to endow the UCLA Department of Surgery through The UCLA Foundation. The combined gift, made through two family foundations, establishes the Robert and Kelly Day Surgical Endowment, which will greatly enhance the surgical research, teaching and patient care mission of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
A Los Angeles countywide research study examining whether magnesium sulfate can protect stroke victims' brains when administered by paramedics within two hours of stroke onset is now expanding to include patients who cannot give their immediate consent.
In 1996, a unique collaboration of leading UCLA scientists led by Dr. Arie Belldegrun founded the biotechnology company Agensys Inc. "” and the company now stands to reap $537 million through an acquisition by Astellas Pharma Inc., making it one of the largest Los Angeles-based private biotech firms poised to tackle therapeutic, fully human monoclonal antibody oncology research and drug development.
Older adults often carry a deeply ingrained belief that inactive, sedentary lives are an inevitable part of aging. In a new UCLA study, researchers show that older adults who participated in a pilot test for a program aimed at changing this mindset became more physically active, increasing their walking levels by about 24 percent
People who do not have HIV but seek antiretroviral medications following high-risk sexual encounters are very likely to complete the full monthlong drug regimen. Moreover, there is a strong demand for publicly available post-exposure prophylaxis among high-risk populations in Los Angeles County.
When Patti Taylor learned that Marine Cpl. Aaron Mankin, a U.S. soldier badly burned in Iraq, would be coming to UCLA Medical Center for facial reconstructive surgery, the former Army nurse's patriotic instincts kicked in. She insisted on volunteering as his case manager and rallied her quilting group to create a special gift to comfort him: a red-white-and-blue "quilt of valor."
A new report reveals that California ranks in the bottom half of the nation "” 42nd out of 50 states and the District of Columbia "” in the percentage of children who are read to daily by their parents.
A novel mechanism to predict survival in older women with early stage lung cancer has been uncovered by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a discovery that may have significant implications for new treatment approaches.
Researchers at UCLA have determined the brain circuits involved in hunger that are influenced by a hormone called leptin. In previous clinical trials, supplementation of leptin, the signaling molecule produced by fat cells, produced moderate weight loss in some obese patients. This new work suggests possible new targets for treating obesity.
Early results of a new outpatient procedure for varicose veins, called Light-Assisted Stab Phlebectomy (LASP), are published in the October issue of the journal, American Surgeon. Over 250 patients at UCLA have undergone the procedure, designed to remove branch varicose veins in the thighs, calves, and ankles.
Watching comedy shows helped children tolerate pain for longer periods of time, suggesting that humorous distraction could be used in clinical settings to help children and adolescents better handle painful procedures, according to a study which teamed UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center with the nonprofit organization Rx Laughter.
A panel discussion hosted by the UCLA School of Public Health on the potential impact changes in climate could have on people's health warned of a rise in water-and food-borne illness and infectious diseases. The panelists discussed what individuals, the public health community, and state and local government can do to prepare.
Using quality-of-care measurements developed by the Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) project, UCLA researchers found that vulnerable elderly patients received only 65 percent of the tests and other diagnostic evaluations and treatments recommended for a variety of illnesses and conditions, including diabetes and heart disease.
UCLA researchers found that survival with bone marrow transplant was greater than 75 percent, similar to thymic transplantation, to treat complete DiGeorge syndrome.
A pediatric cardiologist from Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA will lead a team of more than 40 volunteers traveling to Peru to help several hundred children suffering from heart conditions from Oct. 20 to Nov. 4.
Using an advanced three-dimensional mapping technique developed by UCLA researchers, the team analyzed magnetic resonance imaging data from 24 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 25 others with mild Alzheimer's disease. They found that patients with mild Alzheimer's had 10 to 20 percent more atrophy in most cortical areas than did MCI patients.
The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities has been selected as one of 22 new study centers for the National Children's Study, a nationwide project designed to assess the effects of environmental and genetic factors on children's health in the United States.
"Operation Mend," a unique new partnership between UCLA Medical Center and Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, has been established to help treat several U.S. military personnel wounded during service in Iraq and Afghanistan.
UCLA Medical Center on Sept. 20 performed its first living donor kidney "swap," a procedure in which a loved one of a kidney transplant patient who is not compatible as a donor exchanges organs with another incompatible pair under an innovative new paired donation program.
Changes in the immune system may explain why social factors like loneliness are linked to an increased risk of heart disease, viral infections and cancer.
Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, GeneFluidics Inc. and the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have received a five-year, $3.2 million award from the National Institutes of Health to help rapidly diagnose and treat urinary tract infections "” the most common cause of hospital-associated infection in the United States.
Researchers found that when HIV patients lead chaotic lives "” meaning they are disorganized or experience too many unexpected events "” that chaos can act as a barrier to regular medical care. The researchers also developed a new scale to gauge the level of chaos in an adult's life.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is donating $20 million to fund adult and embryonic stem cell research at UCLA, enhancing a program that brings together biologists, chemists, engineers, geneticists and other scientists to develop new and more effective treatments for cancer, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson's, metabolic disorders and other medical conditions.
A $22.5 million grant to UCLA will establish the Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics (CNP), an effort to discern the underlying biology of mental disorders.
A new joint UCLA/Rand study shows that more than half of children with an HIV-infected parent are not consistently in that parent's custody.
The new study finds that up to one-fourth of patients surveyed in the Los Angeles area reported feeling stigmatized by their health care providers. This perception was also linked to low access to care among these patients, a large proportion of whom are low-income and minorities.
A $10-million gift from the Annenberg Foundation has been awarded to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, which will feature the most advanced medical technology in the world. To acknowledge the grant, the hospital's main concourse connecting the Reagan Hospital, the neuropsychiatric hospital and the Mattel Children's Hospital will be named the Wallis Annenberg Concourse.
UCLA scientists discovered that a specific form of estrogen can protect the brain from degeneration yet not increase the risk for hormone-induced cancers of the breast and uterus.
Angiogenesis inhibitors that block a tumor's development of an independent blood supply have been touted as effective cancer fighters that result in fewer side effects than traditional chemotherapy. However, a new study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center showed that one method of blocking blood supply development could result in serious and potentially deadly side effects.
Jennie Ching-I Tsao, associate professor of pediatrics in the Pediatric Pain Program at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, has been selected as one of six winners of the 2007"“08 Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship.
Researchers at UCLA have developed a model that mimics a nasty and ongoing outbreak occurring in the Los Angeles County Jail, among others, of a flesh eating bacteria.
In a large scale, multiethnic study, researchers at UCLA have confirmed the role played by three molecules known as cytokines as a cause of Type 2 diabetes, and further, have identified these molecules as early biological markers that may be used to more accurately predict future incidences of diabetes among apparently healthy individuals.
New and innovative programs to obtain donor organs have the potential to revolutionize kidney transplantation. At UCLA, for example, transplant experts are studying a program they call "living donor swap." This program enables the relative or friend of a kidney-transplant patient who is not compatible as a donor to "swap" organs with another potential donor who also may be an incompatible match for his or her relative or friend. This greatly broadens the pool of organs available from living donors.
Scientists with the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to produce from human embryonic stem cells a highly pure, large quantity of functioning neurons that will allow them to create models of and study diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prefrontal dementia and schizophrenia.
Researchers found that 23 percent of 3,552 hospital-based physicians surveyed were smokers, substantially higher than in the United States (3.3 percent), where the smoking prevalence in the general population is 20.9 percent, and the United Kingdom (6.8 percent), with 25 percent prevalence in the general population.
New research suggests that women have a faster trigger than men for activating waves of brain activity thought to underlie migraines. If correct, this triggering mechanism may be a new target for migraine treatment. In a separate report, the researchers report preliminary success in preventing migraines using a drug that blocks these waves.
An endowed chair in cardiothoracic transplantation surgery at UCLA was established by the University of California Foundation Limited and a generous donation from businessman William E. (Chip) Connor.
A new UCLA study shows that at least 100 of the 599 documented cigarette additives have "pharmacological" actions, many of which enhance or maintain the delivery of nicotine and may increase the addictiveness of cigarettes.
A new UCLA study links diesel exhaust to hardening of the arteries, which significantly increases one's risk for heart attack and stroke. Published in the July 26 edition of the online journal Genome Biology, the findings are the first to explain how fine particles in air pollution conspire with artery-clogging fats to switch on the genes that cause blood vessel inflammation and lead to cardiovascular disease.
A national initiative designed to improve heart-failure patient care in hospitals proved effective at increasing hospital adherence to key quality-of-care performance measures and reducing the length of hospital stays for patients. It also resulted in favorable trends for in-hospital and post-discharge mortality rates.
The brain's mirror neuron network responds differently depending on whether we are looking at someone who shares our culture, or someone who doesn't.
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