The UC Office of the President's health division has changed its name to reflect its role providing leadership and strategic direction for UC’s five academic medical centers and 17 health professional schools.

Check a box and fund two UC-administered cancer research projects — one helping young women preserve fertility and sexual health, the other creating a safer, more effective tool for early detection of lung cancer.

'Heart-on-a-chip' effectively uses human cardiac muscle cells derived from adult stem cells to model how a human heart reacts to cardiovascular medications.

Community ecologist spotlights how environmental management affects disease emergence.

Gene therapy technique leads to production of healthy blood cells — could be used for other genetic diseases.

Key step toward personalized medicine holds promise for treating many diseases.

Molecule interferes with the internal regulation of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct.

Obesity poses serious health risks for moms and their babies.

It's not just low wages. Study by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health points out another disturbing impact of income inequality: its effect on people’s health.

Additional strains of the parasite — and the disease it transmits — prove a greater risk even to those with healthy immune systems.

Cells are like night club bouncers, says UC San Diego's Amro Hamdoun: With every substance that a cell encounters, it has to decide which to eliminate and which to let in.

Feeling blue? Anxious? Fatigued? Roger Walsh offers ‘Eight Ways to Wellbeing.’