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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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A new technology called PSMA might help identify men at risk
Research & Labs

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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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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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
Research & Labs

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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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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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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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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Doctors performing transplant
Research & Labs

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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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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