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Targeted therapy drug helps women with aggressive breast cancer live longer
12/12/2019
UCLA researchers found that adding ribociclib, a targeted therapy drug, to standard hormone therapy significantly improves overall survival in postmenopausal women with advanced hormone-receptor positive/HER2- breast cancer, one of the most common types of the disease.

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Taming chronic inflammation may reduce illness, save lives
12/05/2019
Scientists from 22 institutions, including UCLA, are recommending early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of severe chronic inflammation to reduce the risk of chronic disease and death worldwide. The group of international experts, which also includes scientists from the National Institutes of Health, Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, Columbia University Medical Center and University College London, point to inflammation-related diseases as the cause of 50 percent of all deaths worldwide.

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Dozens of UCLA scientists rank among world’s most-cited researchers
11/27/2019
The 2019 list of the world’s most influential scientific researchers includes 47 UCLA scholars. In its annual list, the Web of Science Group, which is a Clarivate Analytics company, names the most highly cited researchers — those whose work was most often referenced by other scientific research papers published from 2008 through 2018 in 21 fields across the sciences and social sciences.

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Planning a trip abroad? Before you pack, check the air pollution levels
11/20/2019
There are many things people research when planning a vacation or business trip abroad — such as the weather, how to get around a city and where to access free Wi-Fi. But one important piece of information that some people don’t look at is a city’s air pollution levels.

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$20 million fundraising initiative will support efforts to improve treatment for lung disease
11/15/2019
UCLA Health has launched a $20 million fundraising initiative to create a new center for advanced lung disease at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA . To date, the initiative has secured $4.37 million for the Lung Health Research Accelerator Fund, including three gifts of $1 million each from Michael and Linda Keston, William Pierpoint, and Jeffrey and Robin Raich, and a total of $1.37 million from nine other donors.

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UCLA Health partners with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on health and wellness
11/08/2019
UCLA legend and NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is teaming up with UCLA Health for a wide variety of new health and wellness initiatives designed to improve health and prevent disease. The partnership will be announced at the 2019 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Los Angeles Light the Night Walk, an event for which UCLA Health is the presenting sponsor.

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National Cancer Institute awards UCLA prostate cancer program an $8.7 million grant
10/31/2019
The prostate cancer program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCLA Health has been awarded an $8.7 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence, or SPORE, grant from the National Cancer Institute. The grant will support the development of new and innovative approaches for improving the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

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UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital helps kids trick-or-treat
10/31/2019
Three-year-old Harmon Jones strutted in his “Black Panther” costume as he prowled the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital hallways and main lobby for treats. After watching a special magic show and playing some tunes led by music therapists, he wanted some Halloween candy.

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Two UCLA doctors named to National Academy of Medicine
10/21/2019
Two UCLA professors, Dr. Denise Aberle and Dr. Carol Mangione, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.

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3D virtual reality models help yield better surgical outcomes
09/30/2019
A UCLA-led study has found that using three-dimensional virtual reality models to prepare for kidney tumor surgeries resulted in substantial improvements, including shorter operating times, less blood loss during surgery and a shorter stay in the hospital afterward.