Research & Labs

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...

Neurofeedback shows promise for addressing ‘chemo brain’ in UCLA pilot study

Restoring normal functioning in the brains of cancer patients through neurofeedback could potentially alleviate the mental fogginess that many report ...

New AI model efficiently reaches clinical-expert-level accuracy in complex medical scans

New AI framework teaches itself to analyze MRIs and other 3D medical images with accuracy matching that of medical specialists in a fraction of the time.

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...

New CDC report shows large jump in gun-related deaths

Gun violence isn’t just a criminal justice issue, it’s a public health issue, says Michael Rodriguez, MD, MPH, a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicin

New onset chronic kidney disease in people with diabetes highest among ethnic, racial minorities

New onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with diabetes is highest among racial and ethnic minority groups compared with white persons, a UCLA-...

New research presented in tackling gun violence as a public health epidemic

New Sleep Research Into Primitive Sleep Wake Patterns

Studying indigenous cultures and their sleep-wake patterns shows how older generations of humans slept prior to the advent of modern technology.

New technique allows scientists to measure mitochondrial respiration in frozen tissue

New technique allows scientists to measure mitochondrial respiration in frozen tissue

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....

New treatment extends lives of people with most common type of liver cancer

For the first time in over a decade, scientists have identified a first-line treatment that significantly improves survival for people with hepatocell...

New UCLA center promotes reproductive science and sexual health

A new center at UCLA will bring together students, scientists, educators and physicians across a wide range of disciplines.

Off-the-shelf cancer vaccine elicits strong immune response in patients with pancreatic and colorectal cancer

A new novel cancer vaccine can trigger powerful and lasting immune responses and may help prevent or delay cancer recurrence in high-risk patients.

Older Black men are likelier to die after surgery than others, particularly following elective procedures, new UCLA research suggests

Older Black men have a higher chance of dying within 30 days of surgery than do Black women and white men and women.

Overweight older adults face lower risk of death after major surgery, new research finds

A new UCLA study points to surprising outcomes in elective surgery on older adults who are overweight.