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Star-shaped brain cells offer potential drug targets for Huntington's disease
10/20/2020
UCLA scientists discovered that a cell type long implicated in brain diseases is remarkably malleable and shows responses in a mouse model that suggest potential targets for drugs for Huntington's disease.

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UCLA physician-scientist elected to National Academy of Medicine
10/19/2020
A pioneer in cancer immunology, Dr. Antoni Ribas has devoted his career to developing and refining new therapies for malignant melanoma.

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Virus-mimicking drug helps immune system target cunning cancer cells
10/14/2020
The research opens up the possibility of using drugs that simulate viruses to overcome immunotherapy resistance in melanoma.

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Cognitive behavioral therapy normalizes brain abnormality in OCD patients
10/14/2020
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 help to predict who is most likely to respond to CBT.

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Therapy plus medication better than medication alone in bipolar disorder
10/14/2020
A review of 39 randomized clinical trials by scientists from UCLA and their colleagues has found that combining the use medication with psychoeducational therapy is more effective at preventing a recurrence of illness in people with bipolar disorder than medication alone.

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Enhanced common blood test could predict adverse outcomes in pregnancy, study suggests
10/13/2020
Research brief: The new screening method looks for particular bits of DNA that have been shed by the placenta and entered the mother's blood.

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UCLA draws record $1.4 billion in research funding
10/12/2020
Spanning medicine, math and nanomaterials, support for campus scientific studies has grown almost 40% in five years.

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Antibiotics may be a good choice for some, but not all, patients with appendicitis
10/08/2020
The findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Effects of poverty on childhood development seen in children as young as 5
10/08/2020
In a nationwide study, UCLA researchers have found that health inequities can be measured in children as young as 5 years old.

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Answering the call to serve: UCLA Health's humanitarian aid to Beirut takes off
10/07/2020
A team of volunteers gathered hundreds of pounds of supplies — including masks, gurneys and robotic surgical arms — to assist those in need, now two months after the explosion.