Vital Signs

Summer 2023

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UCLA Health Vital Signs is a resource for your health, published four times a year to provide consumers with health news they can use.

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Seven-year-old Leanna is checked in for her triweekly blood transfusion.

What happens to that unit of blood you just donated?

Vital Signs Summer 2023

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Portrait of an african young nurse helping old elderly disable man grandfather to walk using walker equipment in the bedroom. Senior patient of nursing home moving with walking frame and nurse support

Palliative care and hospice care: what’s the difference?

Health care, fitness and weight loss. Child on analytical balance.

Updated guidelines urge pediatricians to take a more proactive approach to treat childhood obesity

For kids to have the most fun in the sun, keep their skin safe

For kids to have the most fun in the sun, keep their skin safe

Illustration: Maitreyee Kalaskar

More exercise is not necessarily better

Colorectal Cancer Screening Graphic

Age to Start Colon Cancer Screening Lowered Following Increase Among Younger Adults

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New strategies to defeat depression

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