UCLA physician-scientist elected to National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Antoni Ribas, a world-renowned physician–scientist and professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been named to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
19-Oct-2020 12:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Breast cancer diagnosis decoder: Understanding your new diagnosis

Dr. Erin Chamberlain, a medical oncologist with the UCLA Health San Luis Obispo office, helps decipher common breast cancer terms.
15-Oct-2020 1:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Virus-mimicking drug helps immune system target cunning cancer cells

UCLA researchers have found that a drug that activates the body’s natural defenses by behaving like a virus may also make certain stealthy melanoma tumors visible to the immune system, allowing them to be better targeted by immunotherapy.
12-Oct-2020 11:20 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Therapy plus medication better than medication alone in bipolar disorder

A review of 39 randomized clinical trials by scientists from UCLA and their colleagues from other institutions has found that combining the use medication with psychoeducational therapy is more effective at preventing a recurrence of illness in...
14-Oct-2020 12:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Cognitive behavioral therapy normalizes brain abnormality in OCD patients

UCLA scientists and colleagues studying the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) discovered an abnormality in the brains of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that may also help to predict who is most likely to respond to CBT.
13-Oct-2020 6:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Effects of poverty on childhood development seen in children as young as 5

How kindergarten teachers helped UCLA researchers highlight the impact of socioeconomic barriers on children’s health and development.
8-Oct-2020 6:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists pioneer faster, cheaper COVID-19 testing technology

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for UCLA Health to launch a new method of COVID-19 detection using sequencing technology called SwabSeq. Capable of testing thousands of samples at once, the method...
7-Oct-2020 5:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

‘Brain fog’ following COVID-19 recovery may indicate PTSD

A new report suggests that lingering “brain fog” and other neurological symptoms after COVID -19 recovery may be due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an effect observed in past human coronavirus outbreaks such as SARS and MERS.
6-Oct-2020 4:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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