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UCLA researchers reconstitute enzyme that synthesizes cholesterol drug lovastatin

November 3, 2009

Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the block

Colon cancer screening more effective earlier in day, UCLA study finds

November 3, 2009

The effectiveness of a screening colonoscopy may depend on the time of day it is performed.

Study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat

November 2, 2009

A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by

For dialysis patients, skinny is dangerous

October 31, 2009

Dialysis patients with low body fat are at increased risk of death -- even compared to patients at the highest level of body fat percentage, according to research being presented at the American So

Biofield therapies: Helpful or full of hype?

October 29, 2009

Biofield therapies, which claim to use subtle energy to stimulate the body's healing process, are promising complementary interventions for reducing the intensity of pain in a number of conditions,

Not a healthy state for all Latinos in the US

October 28, 2009

Where Latinos are born and their immigration status affect the quality of health care they receive in the US, according to Professor Michael Rodríguez and colleagues from the UCLA Department of Fam

Nearly all Californians would potentially be insured under national health care reform

October 25, 2009

If national health care reform is enacted, 93 percent of California's non-elderly population would have access to health insurance — a nearly 13 percentage-point increase in statewide coverage — according to a new fact sheet released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Feelings of stigmatization may discourage HIV patients from proper care

October 21, 2009

The feeling of stigmatization that people living with HIV often experience doesn't only exact a psychological toll -- new UCLA research suggests it can also lead to quantifiably negative health outcomes.

Loss of tumor supressor gene essential to transforming benign nerve tumors into cancers

October 13, 2009

Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center showed for the first time that the loss or decreased expression of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN plays a central role in the malignant transformation of benign nerve tumors called neurofibromas into a malignant and extremely deadly form of sarcoma.

Breast tenderness during hormone replacement therapy linked to elevated cancer risk

October 12, 2009

Women who developed new-onset breast tenderness after starting estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement therapy were at significantly higher risk for developing breast cancer than women on the combination therapy who didn't experience such tenderness, according to a new UCLA study.

Insured African-Americans more likely to use emergency room than other insured groups

October 7, 2009

Health insurance, and the access it provides to a primary care physician, should reduce the use of a major driver of health care costs: the emergency room.

Where religious belief and disbelief meet

October 5, 2009

When it comes to religion, believers and nonbelievers appear to think very differently. But at the level of the brain, is believing in God different from believing that the sun is a star or that 4 is an even number?

Half-million low-income elderly affected by sweeping cuts to state safety net

October 1, 2009

An 81-year-old San Francisco woman with dementia, little money and an equally aged caregiver sister who is suffering from cancer.

A 72-year-old Riverside woman with Alzheimer's who cannot be left safely on her own, forcing her son to cut back his working hours to care for her.

University of Louisville neuroscientists hope to get people walking again

October 1, 2009

Neuroscience researchers at the University of Louisville will be the only team collaborating with an international group of scientists that last week announced they had enabled paralyzed rats to walk while supporting their own weight.



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