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Behavioral Health
New postpartum depression pill acts more quickly than other treatments.
August 15, 2023
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6 min read
Behavioral Health
Routine screening for anxiety in asymptomatic adults recommended
August 11, 2023
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3 min read
Cancer,
News about UCLA Health
Dr. Kymora Scotland awarded grant by Urology Care Foundation
August 11, 2023
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1 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
Cancer researcher awarded dermatology fellowship
Xiao Zhang, a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Roger Lo’s laboratory at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was named a dermatology fellow by the Melanoma Research Alliance.
August 8, 2023
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1 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
Cost of translating consent documents may serve as a barrier to participation of members of underrepresented groups in clinical trials
Cancer centers conducting clinical trials could enroll more patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups by placing greater emphasis on relieving investigators of the costs of translating consent documents into languages other than English.
August 2, 2023
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5 min read
Cancer,
Healthy Lifestyle
UCLA physician-scientist awarded $400,000 for pediatric cancer research by Hyundai Hope on Wheels
A $400,000 grant will support the pediatric cancer research being conducted by Dr. Steven Jonas.
July 27, 2023
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3 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
Dr. Tanya Stoyanova awarded $1.5 million to uncover new ways to treat advanced prostate cancer
Dr. Tanya Stoyanova was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to identify new treatment strategies for neuroendocrine prostate cancer, a highly aggressive form of the disease.
July 27, 2023
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2 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
PSMA PET imaging improves accuracy of predicting prostate cancer recurrence
A molecular imaging tool developed by researchers at UCLA and UCSF helps improve the accuracy of predicting the risk of cancer recurrence in patients with intermediate to high-risk prostate cancer who undergo surgery.
July 25, 2023
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4 min read
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer diet: How to eat for your symptoms
For people undergoing cancer treatment, it's just as important to know what to add to their diets as it is to be aware of what to avoid.
July 20, 2023
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3 min read
Cancer,
Healthy Lifestyle
Summer skin safety tips for kids
With summer upon us, it is important for families to learn about and practice safe skin behaviors, particularly when it comes to children.
July 19, 2023
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3 min read
Behavioral Health
A new depression treatment: Transcranial magnetic stimulation
New techniques developed at UCLA can relieve symptoms of depression in as quickly as one week. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applies a series of gentle electromagnetic pulses, similar to those in an MRI machine, to targeted areas of the brain.
July 19, 2023
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3 min read
Cancer
Pelvic floor: What it is and how to keep it healthy
The problems that arise when the pelvic floor muscles aren’t working properly can be uncomfortable to discuss.
July 19, 2023
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5 min read
Cancer
Age to Start Colon Cancer Screening Lowered Following Increase Among Younger Adults
Colorectal cancer-screening guidelines, which previously recommended starting at age 50, have been lowered to 45 for average-risk adults.
July 19, 2023
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4 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
Dr. Roger Lo receives grant to find ways to prevent melanoma resistance
Dr. Roger Lo received an $800,000 grant from the V Foundation to study new ways to defeat malignant melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer that often becomes resistant to current cancer treatments.
July 18, 2023
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2 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
Gene mutations linked to hereditary kidney cancer predisposition but potential Achilles' heel identified
Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have confirmed that a large number of genetic variants of unknown significance are in fact verified mutations that predispose patients to a rare hereditary syndrome that increases the risk of kidney cancer.
July 12, 2023
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5 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
Researchers awarded $2 million grant from National Cancer Institute
Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to design better combination therapies that target the immune system to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, which continues to spread even when testosterone levels are significantly reduced.
July 11, 2023
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2 min read
Behavioral Health
Dual diagnosis program at Resnick Hospital treats people coping simultaneously with mental health and addiction disorders
The Dual Diagnosis Program at the Stewart & Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital is one of relatively few programs in the country structured to treat addictive disorders and often underlying mental health conditions at the same time.
July 10, 2023
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7 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
UCLA researchers receive grant from National Institutes of Health
Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center — including Dr. Yazhen Zhu, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, Hsian-Rong Tseng, professor of molecular and medical pharmacology, and Dr. Vatche Agopian, director of the Dumont-UCLA Liver Cancer Center — received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to find a more effective way to detect hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, which often has a poor prognosis.
July 10, 2023
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2 min read
Cancer
Faculty: Serving Memory
GROWING UP, GARY J. SCHILLER, MD (RES ’87, FEL ’90), listened to the stories his father told of the terrible years as a teenager he spent in Poland’s Lodz Ghetto during World War II and then surviving the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, among others.
July 3, 2023
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5 min read
Cancer,
Science & Research
Researchers develop tool that could improve liquid biopsy
A research team led by Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, PhD, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has made an important advancement to address one of the major challenges in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, also known as liquid biopsy by identifying specific methylation patterns unique to each tissue, potentially helping to Identify the specific tissue or organ associated with cfDNA alterations picked up by testing, a critical challenge for accurate diagnosis and monitoring of diseases.
July 3, 2023
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2 min read