UCLA Newsroom |

Discrimination can be harmful to your mental health

UCLA experts view mental health status of victims as a public health concern.

UC San Francisco |

UC San Francisco Global Food Initiative fellows tackle food insecurity’s impact on infectious diseases

Grants support research by three doctors to better understand the impact of food insecurity and to design interventions.

UCLA |

UCLA researchers make progress toward healing scarred hearts

Findings suggest stem cells may one day be used to regenerate damaged tissue after heart attack.

UC Irvine |

Sue and Bill Gross commit $40 million to establish nursing school at UC Irvine

Largest single gift ever to campus will help address critical health care needs.

UCSF |

Cannabis-based drug reduces seizures in children with treatment resistant epilepsy

First study to examine the safety and efficacy of cannabidiol for children

UCSF |

Poor health: when poverty becomes disease

UCSF doctors and researchers address the impact of poverty on health in research and practice.

UC Irvine |

Put the cellphone away! Fragmented baby care can affect brain development

UC Irvine study shows link between maternal infant-rearing and adolescent depression.

UC San Francisco |

Illuminating depression’s circuitry

UC San Francisco neurosurgeon Edward Chang is studying whether flawed brain circuitry causes mood disorders and how to restore neural processing.

UCLA |

$10 million gift to UCLA is largest to support migraine research

Donation from philanthropists Wendy and Leonard Goldberg could help alleviate suffering for millions worldwide.

UC Davis |

Knuckle cracking looks explosive, but causes no detectable harm

Ultrasound evaluations show that the knuckle-cracking sound occurs when gas bubbles form in joints very quickly, UC Davis study finds.

UC Newsroom |

UC entrepreneurs win funding at first primeUC competition

Twenty of UC's most promising life-science startups competed for seed funding in the first primeUC competition at UCSF.

UCLA |

Scientists design a new method for screening cancer cells

Parallel microfiltration could lead to better treatments for a number of diseases, UCLA-led study says.