News Releases

Health and Behavior
Decades later, man meets the UCLA doctor who saved his life
09/18/2018
Maurice Elias reunited with Dr. Richard Stiehm, who 48 years ago used a then-experimental treatment, to cure him of “bubble baby” syndrome.

Health and Behavior
Plans to change federal Medi-Cal funding could force some California counties to slash health coverage
09/18/2018
Counties such as San Bernardino, Riverside and Fresno could see public health care take a bigger bite of their budgets, the study reports.

Health and Behavior
Researchers find adult stem cell characteristics in aggressive cancers from different tissues
09/18/2018
The study could lead to new treatments for a range of advanced epithelial cancers such as lung, prostate and bladder cancers.

Health and Behavior
First CDC guidelines for treating children’s concussions offer valuable tools for doctors, UCLA researchers report
09/17/2018
The recommendations are based on a comprehensive review of the science related to pediatric concussions.

Health and Behavior
UCLA researchers develop mechanism for characterizing function of rare tumor cells
09/17/2018
“With this type of measurement tool, you could potentially figure out which drugs would work best for each person before even starting treatment,” said UCLA professor Dino Di Carlo.