The researchers found that the Hurricane Katrina evacuees' strong family ties had a profound influence on factors affecting evacuation, including transportation decisions, access to shelter and how they perceived evacuation messages. These ties both facilitated and hindered their evacuation.
A rigorous, long-term study of quality of life in patients who underwent one of the three most common treatments for prostate cancer found that each affected men's lives in different ways. The findings provide invaluable information for men with prostate cancer who are facing vital treatment decisions.
The number of Latinos who graduated from dental schools, and hence able to acquire licenses to practice dentistry in California, fell by nearly 80 percent between 1982 and 1999 from 74 to 15 percent, even as the state's Latino population increased by 42.7 percent (7.7 million to 10 million).
April is Foot Health Awareness Month and UCLA podiatrists have provided tips for maintaining healthy feet.
Lactate, long thought to be a mere waste product, may be a key fuel for injured brains.
Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness.
UCLA is offering an intervention program for families and teens in Los Angeles County to stop teens from running away from home due to dissension between parent and child. It is an effort to reduce chronic adolescent homelessness and HIV-related risk behaviors by teaching teens and their parents the necessary skills to deal with unresolved conflict.
UCLA scientists have identified a new molecule that may help regulate the delivery of fats to cells for energy and storage. This could lead to a better understanding of how we utilize fats from the foods that we eat.
Dr. Theodore B. Moore has been selected as the winner of the second annual Today's and Tomorrow's Children's Fund Faculty Presentation Award.
Dr. Richard J. Shemin has been appointed professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at UCLA Medical Center, vice chairman of the UCLA Department of Surgery and co-director of the new Cardiovascular Center at UCLA.
This month a UCLA researcher begins a widespread clinical trial of the female sex hormone estriol, produced during pregnancy, which she's shown sharply reduces the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Tai chi chih, the Westernized version of the 2,000-year-old Chinese martial art characterized by slow movement and meditation, significantly boosts the immune systems of older adults against the virus that leads to the painful, blistery rash known as shingles, according to a new UCLA study.
Detection of precancerous changes (anal dysplasia) by anal cytology "” essentially an anal canal Pap smear "” is a relatively new procedure and one that has yet to enter standard practice. This UCLA study demonstrated that abnormal anal cytology was highly predictive of anal cell abnormalities that were subsequently confirmed by anal biopsy.
UCLA scientists have devised a novel way to correct abnormal gene splicing "“ a common mutation that often leads to disease. They created a custom mask that prevents the cell from seeing the genetic defects and restores splicing to the correct location in the gene.
Researchers have found that Viagra may help patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable disease characterized by progressive scarring in the lungs, which often leads to a lung transplant.
According to UCLA researchers, the current U.S. child health system is failing to produce the kind of health outcomes that it could and should because it is powered by outdated logic, outmoded organization, and inadequate and misaligned finance strategies.
Even as the AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles County has shifted largely to Hispanics, primary care practitioners serving this segment of the population often fail to offer either HIV testing or safer sex advice to their patients, according to a new UCLA AIDS Institute study.
UCLA researchers have uncovered new clues that may explain why Graves' disease (GD) attacks the muscle tissue behind the eyes, often causing them to bulge painfully from their sockets, as in the late actor Marty Feldman. The findings may deepen understanding of how the autoimmune disorder damages the body and offer a new target for treating the disfiguring disease.
With March being Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, UCLA experts offer ten tips to lower risk of colorectal cancer and to help maintain a healthy colon. UCLA experts are also available for interviews.
UCLA scientists received seven of 72 seed grants awarded today by the state to fund stem cell research, the first money distributed for work on human embryonic stem cells since California voters approved Proposition 71 in November 2004. Seed grant funding totaled $45 million.
The first results from a scan of the world's largest collection of DNA samples from families affected by autism point to two new genetic links that may predispose people to the brain disorder. Nature Genetics reports the study's findings in its Feb. 18 online edition.
In the fruit fly Drosophila, the mutated parkin gene causes motor dysfunction and may be key to understanding the cause of familial Parkinson's in humans.
For years, scientists have assumed that the brain possesses an inner clock that allows it to process time. Now a UCLA study in the Feb. 1 edition of Neuron proposes a new model in which a series of physical changes in the brain's cells help the organ to mark the passage of time -- much like counting the rings in a tree stump reveals the age of a fallen tree.
UCLA cardiologists offer healthy heart health tips for adults and children. UCLA will hold heart awareness day event on Feb. 15.
A World Health Organization (WHO) plan to track transmitted resistance to HIV drugs in Botswana could fail because the threshold the organization has set is too high, according to new UCLA research.
UCLA researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate. The finding offers more insight into an observed phenomenon in chronic heart failure called the "˜obesity paradox.'
Academic researchers reported that all five standard hospital-based performance measures used to gauge quality of care for hospitalized heart failure patients may not be the best benchmarks since none were significant predictors of patient mortality during the critical first 60 to 90 days immediately following hospital discharge.
The findings suggest that facilitating health insurance coverage for homeless youths may lead to increased use of outpatient care services, which may prevent costly emergency room services for conditions that could have been treated in the outpatient setting.
After stroke, new blood vessels form and newly born neurons migrate to the damaged area to aid in the regeneration process of the brain. In mice, UCLA neurologists identified the cellular cues that start this process, casually linking angiogenesis, the development of blood vessels, and neurogenesis, the birth of neurons.
UCLA researchers used innovative brain scan technology with a new imaging molecule, invented at UCLA, to show that abnormal brain protein deposits that define Alzheimer's disease can be detected in people with mild cognitive impairment, a condition affecting 15-20 million Americans that increases risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. The new imaging technique helped researchers track disease progression over a two-year period and may be helpful in detecting pre-Alzheimer's conditions.
Dr. William J. Dignam, a founding member of the UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and former senior associate dean for Academic Affairs at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, died Dec. 5.
The UCLA Department of Family Medicine is receiving $300,000 from Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, a National Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that evaluates interventions aimed at eliminating racial and ethnic health care disparities in local communities.
UCLA experts are available today for interviews regarding U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson and the condition known as arteriovenous malformation.
Dr. Raffi Tachdjian, a third-year pediatric fellow in the division of allergy and immunology at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, founded the nonprofit Children's Music Fund to help bring music to his patients.
Neurologist George Bartzokis argues that the brain's miles of myelin are a key evolutionary change that may make us vulnerable to highly prevalent neuropsychiatric disorders. He argues that viewing the brain as myelin-dependent may be key to developing new and novel treatments against disease.
A new study showed that it can be safe and cost-efficient to discharge pediatric tonsillectomy patients after a short post-operative recovery period at an outpatient surgery center.
Doctors at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute have pioneered the first technique to biopsy tumor tissue from the living eye and test it for a genetic marker linked to aggressive metastasis. The new test is life-changing, because ocular melanoma doesn't just cause blindness -- it can kill you in as quickly as a year.
Six million years ago, chimpanzees and humans diverged from a common ancestor and evolved into unique species. Now UCLA scientists have identified a new way to pinpoint the genes that separate us from our closest living relative "“ and make us uniquely human.
A new UCLA study has found that physicians discuss cost and aspects of obtaining newly prescribed medications only about one-third of the time during patient/doctor interactions. But questions about pricing and prescription drug insurance coverage are critical "” the high costs of drugs, including out-of-pocket payouts such as co-payments, are linked to patient non-adherence.
A team of academic researchers report that systolic blood pressure taken at hospital admission may be a key factor in predicting mortality risk and revealing important disease characteristics for heart failure patients.
UCLA AIDS Institute experts are available for interviews about the following news story: Dec. 1, 2006 is World AIDS Day, when the world unites to fight AIDS and HIV.
On Dec. 1, 2006 UCLA will present a day-long, campus-wide, cross-departmental commemoration of World AIDS Day 2006, including the opening of two major art installations: "˜Dress Up Against AIDS: Condom Couture by Adriana Bertini' on display at the Fowler Museum, and "˜The Keiskamma Altarpiece: Transcending AIDS in South Africa'.
In a first-of-its-kind study, UCLA researchers have shown that segments of the HIV-infected population who have little to no consistent outpatient medical care "” and yet are most in need of such services "” are overwhelmingly minorities, the poor and substance abusers.
Using an innovative three-dimensional imaging technique, a team of UCLA researchers have tracked how Alzheimer's disease spreads through the hippocampus, the area of the brain linked with memory.
The NIH has awarded Dr. Peter Anton, professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, a $4.5-million supplemental grant to expand the Center for HIV Prevention and Research's ongoing efforts to develop microbicides to combat the transmission of HIV.
UCLA/VA researchers found that curcumin "“ a chemical found in curry and tumeric "“ may help the immune system clear the brain of amyloid beta, which form the plaques found in Alzheimer's disease. These early laboratory findings may lead to a new approach in treating Alzheimer's disease by enhancing the natural function of the immune system using curcumin, known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties.
A new study found that in too many instances, physicians did not address such things as the purpose of a medication, potential adverse side effects or even the names of drugs they were prescribing to their patients. This can lead to serious problems.
Using a technique called recursive partitioning, the researchers found that combinations of neuroendocrine and immune markers frequently appeared in high-risk male pathways, while systolic blood pressure was present, in combination with other biomarkers, in high-risk female pathways.
Researchers have uncovered a natural protective mechanism against neuronal death in Alzheimer's and similar neurodegenerative diseases. They discovered that a particular enzyme snips apart the abnormal tangles of protein called tau that are associated with cognitive decline; The enzyme, called PSA, may prove to be a promising drug target.
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