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Steepest Annual Rise in Advanced Cervical Cancer
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Steepest Annual Rise in Advanced Cervical Cancer in US Among White Women

The steepest annual rise in new cases of advanced womb (cervical) cancer in the US is among white women, who are significantly less likely to have the...

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Researchers Examine Link Between Pesticides and Thyroid Cancer Risk in Central California
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Researchers Examine Link Between Pesticides and Thyroid Cancer Risk in Central California Area

In single pollutant models and within a 20-year period, 10 out of 29 reviewed pesticides were associated with thyroid cancer, including several of the...

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Brain Illustration
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Study identifies new dementia risk genes through novel testing approach

A new UCLA-led study has identified multiple new risk genes for Alzheimer's disease and a rare, related brain disorder called progressive supranuclear...

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John N. Mafi, MD, MPH
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UCLA receives $500,000 to study the impact of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic

UCLA has received $500,000 from Arnold Ventures to study how the use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic affected access to, utilization of a...

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UCLA Mental Health Researchers Offer Insights on Overcoming Trauma
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Learning from Disaster: UCLA Mental Health Researchers Offer Insights on Overcoming Trauma

On a December morning in 1988, a massive earthquake tore through northern Armenia, devastating the small Caucasus country....

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UCLA cancer researchers and study co-authors Evan Abt PhD, Thuc Le PhD and Khalid Rashid PhD
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Determining How Nucleoside Metabolism Regulates Contrasting Immune Functions in the Rare Disease PNP Deficiency

The metabolic enzyme purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) protects against immunodeficiency and regulates innate immune signaling via previously unkn...

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STING-activating drugs stimulate potent anti-tumor responses
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PET Scan Visualization can Measure Effects of STING-Activating Drugs and Could Help Guide Clinical Development of this Potential Anti-Tumor Therapy

Stimulator of interferon genes, or STING, helps regulate immune activation....

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Artificial Intelligence Tools Speed Critical Information on Drug Overdose Deaths
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UCLA Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence Tools to Speed Critical Information on Drug Overdose Deaths

An automated process based on computer algorithms that can read text from medical examiners' death certificates can substantially speed up data collec...

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UCLA study demonstrates doctors can be influenced by the first diagnoses
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Want a Second opinion? UCLA Study Demonstrates Doctors can be Influenced by the First Diagnoses – Sometimes Towards Misdiagnosis

You hear that we should get a second opinion a lot, particularly if a test result or medical diagnosis is challenging or unclear....

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A new technology called PSMA might help identify men at risk
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Analysis Finds Most Distant Metastasis in Prostate Cancer Not Preceded by a Local Recurrence

A new analysis appearing in European Urology led by Martin Ma, MD, PhD, resident in Radiation Oncology at UCLA, finds that among men receiving radiati...

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Dr. Vatche Agopian, Director, Dumont-UCLA Liver Cancer Center; Dr. Yazhen Zhu, co-director of the liquid biopsy laboratory at UCLA; and Hsian-Rong Tseng of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
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New Technology Aims Toward Earlier Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Primary liver cancer, the third-leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, takes more than 30,000 lives in the United States each year....

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Telepathy Illustration
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With $12 million in federal funding, UCLA to expand reach of its depression treatment

Faculty with the Depression Grand Challenge have created a system for managing mental health that they hope can be scaled and customized...

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Self-Employed Women Report Lower Risk of High Blood Pressure and Obesity
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Self-Employed Women Report Lower Risk of High Blood Pressure and Obesity Compared to Women Who Work for Wages

Self-employed women report a lower risk of developing high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes compared to women who have a salary or work for wages...

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New Framework for Studying Brain Organization
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UCLA Researchers Provide New Framework for Studying Brain Organization

UCLA researchers and colleagues at Emory University and other research centers have combined data simulation and experimental observation to bridge a ...

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Doctors performing transplant
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UCLA awarded $11.5 million to improve organ, hand and face transplantation

The Dumont–UCLA Transplant Center has received two grants totaling $11.5 million from the federal government for research aimed at making donated or...

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