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'A doctor in your back pocket': Patients participate in their own care via Apple iPad
Hershel D. Sinay, 74, has grappled with ulcerative colitis for years, a debilitating inflammatory condition of the digestive tract that has made it difficult for him to socialize, travel and even get out of bed.
‘A living example of what it means to be an advocate’: UCLA’s Felicia Marie Knaul on breast cancer and women’s health
Listen to Knaul, associate of the UCLA chancellor and a distinguished professor of medicine, on UCLA Health’s “Medically Speaking” podcast.
'Babies by Design: Redefining Humans?' symposium slated at UCLA Jan. 27
AThis free, half-day symposium explores the complex challenges and choices associated with new embryo-testing technologies, which provide parents with increasingly more genetic information and invite them to select only the best traits for their children.
'Bearing witness to daily struggle' is what drew this doctor to medicine
As an AmeriCorps member, Dr. Carlos Oronce saw firsthand how patients struggle to access health care
'Beating heart' technology could revolutionize field of heart transplantation
The heart transplantation team at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical is currently leading a national, multicenter phase 2 clinical study of an experimental organ-preservation system that allows donor hearts to continue functioning in a near-physiologic state outside the body during transport.
'Best' hospitals should be required to deliver tobacco treatment
A UCLA-led report calls for accreditation processes to include data on medical centers' smoking cessation programs.
'Black Minds Matter': UCLA Health experts address mental health needs of the Black community and the role of racism
‘Our ethnicity and the color of our skin can dictate almost everything about our mental health and how we’re perceived by other people,’ says Dr. Gail Wyatt.
'Brain' organoids grown in lab mature much like infant brains
A new study from UCLA and Stanford University researchers finds that three-dimensional human stem cell-derived 'mini brain' organoids can mature in a manner that is strikingly similar to human brain development.
'Carmaheaven': Closure of 405 in 2011 improved air quality up to 83 percent
Take the time to enjoy a deep breath next weekend when the 405 freeway closes for Carmageddon II.
'Competitive greatness' drives 5 years of Parkinson's research breakthroughs at UCLA - Neurology
UCLA Neurology was featured in a UCLA Health article on the 5 year anniversary of the Laurie and Steven C. Gordon's $25 million gift.
‘Competitive greatness’ drives 5 years of Parkinson’s research breakthroughs at UCLA
World Parkinson’s Day 2023, Tuesday, April 11, marks the five-year anniversary of Laurie and Steven C. Gordon’s $25 million gift to UCLA, which established their Commitment to Cure Parkinson’s Disease at the David Geffen School of Medicine. The gift has funded diverse research projects that have contributed to the understanding of the neurodegenerative disease that some experts estimate affects 1 million Americans.
'Confía en la ciencia' video promotes vaccine confidence in L.A. communities
'Vacunarse es fácil, gratuito y abierto a todos.'
‘Crohn’s is not going to derail your life’
UCLA’s Pediatric IBD clinic provides resources and support for young patients.
‘Dirty Dozen’ lists produce to clean extra carefully
A vendor at our weekend farmers market was telling his customers about something called the “Dirty Dozen” list. Apparently it has to do with pesticides and shopping for produce? I would like to know more about this, and I wonder if you think it has merit.
'Do no harm': Patient-centered end-of-life care means happier patients who live longer
New doctors take an oath to do no harm, but many physicians, in their zeal to prolong people's lives, often end up exposing patients to aggressive treatments that don't improve outcomes and that drive up health care costs.