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PPE Highly Effective at Protecting Emergency Department Workers from COVID
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UCLA, UI Health Care, CDC Researchers Find PPE Highly Effective at Protecting Emergency Department Workers from COVID

Emergency department health care workers' risk of infection in the early stages of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic was largely related to household...

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UCLA Researchers Identify Previously Unobserved Type of White Blood Cell Involved in Development of Pimples
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UCLA Researchers Identify Previously Unobserved Type of White Blood Cell Involved in Development of Pimples

Acne affects more than 45 million people and is ranked third among chronic skin conditions that cause disability....

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DNA Sequencing
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UCLA researchers awarded Department of Defense funding to improve prostate cancer treatment outcomes

A team led by Paul C Boutros, PhD, MBA has been awarded over $2.7 million in research funding from the U.S. Department of Defense....

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Initiative seeks to adapt SwabSeq technology to detect all novel pathogens
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UCLA Launches Effort to Expand Its COVID Test to Detect Other Emerging Viruses

CLA Health is joining a new effort to increase the ability to quickly respond to emerging pathogens by creating the capability to detect all existing ...

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UCLA Health’s TechQuity Accelerator
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UCLA Health’s TechQuity Accelerator Announces Inaugural Cohort Advancing Equitable Innovations

The inaugural cohort of innovators has been selected to participate in UCLA Health’s new TechQuity Accelerator....

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Sensory interneurons derived from mouse stem cells
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Scientists develop blueprint for turning stem cells into sensory interneurons

The findings represent an important step toward cell therapies to restore sensation in people with spinal cord injuries...

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Burnout rates among physicians are rising
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Comparing Physicians’ Performance to Peers Decreases Job Satisfaction and Increases Burnout

A commonly used behavioral intervention-informing primary care physicians about how their performance compares to that of their peers-has no statistic...

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UCLA’s Institute for Precision Health and the Department of Computational Medicine
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New Biomedical Data Science Training Program Focuses on Precision Health Equity

UCLA's Institute for Precision Health and the Department of Computational Medicine have launched a new training program for predoctoral and postdoct...

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UCLA study indicates RNA might be a better biomarker than DNA to analyze biopsies
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RNA May Be an Informative Biomarker for Head and Neck Cancer Treatment, UCLA Study Says

Liquid biopsies for certain cancers are gaining popularity because they’re less invasive than traditional ones....

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Even in sleep, your brain’s neurons are humming along to Mozart
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Even in Sleep, Your Brain’s Neurons are Humming Along to Mozart

You're fast asleep....

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DESTINY-Breast04 Results are ‘Practice-Changing’
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NEJM Editorial by UCLA’s Sara Hurvitz: DESTINY-Breast04 Results are ‘Practice-Changing’

A Phase 3 trial showing positive results for a drug given to breast cancer patients who have low levels of the HER2 protein is "immediately practice-c...

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UCLA study linking protein to long-term damage following brain injuries
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UCLA Research Contributes to Study Linking Protein to Long-Term Damage Following Brain Injuries

Blocking a key function of cells known as astrocytes in the brain's thalamus can prevent the risk of seizures in mice with brain injuries, according t...

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O. Joe Hines, MD
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Joe Hines, MD Honored with Sherman M. Mellinkoff Faculty Award

Dr. O. Joe Hines, interim chair of the surgery department and UCLA’s Robert and Kelly Day Professor of General Surgery, was selected as the 2022 She...

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Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and a giraffe at the zoo
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Studying animal evolution to advance women’s health

Understanding the physical changes that protect female animals - from giraffes and sharks to bats and bears - may help humans too, UCLA research sugge...

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ucla research students
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UCLA research team receives $1M grant to study long COVID

A team of researchers at UCLA Health has received a $1 million research grant from the American Heart Association to study the cardiovascular effects ...

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