UCLA researchers awarded $9M contract for study identifiying antibiotic treatment for MRSA
... The study, to be led by co-principal investigators Dr. David A. Talan and Dr. Gregory J. Moran, both of Olive ViewUCLA Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will explor...UCLA, Italian chemists move closer to solving Lou Gehrig's disease mystery
... Joan Selverstone Valentine, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has studied the protein copper-zinc superoxide dismutase since the 1970s, long before it was implicated in ALS in 1993. Since the link was discovered, Valentines laboratory has made more than two dozen...UCLA researchers develop new nanomaterials to deliver anti-cancer drugs to cells
... ... In a paper scheduled to be published...UCLA pediatrician honored with prestigious achievement award
... Dr. E. Richard Stiehm, professor of pediatrics in the division of allergy, immunology and rheumatology at Mattel Childrens Hospital at UCLA, was presented with the 2007 Abbott Laboratories Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in Toronto on May 22. ... The ASMs Scientific A...UCLA imaging study reveals how pure oxygen harms the brain
... ....UCLA Nobel Laureate honored with membership in the American Philosophical Society
... ... ...UCLA Stroke Center receives American Stroke Association's Initial Achievement Award
... ... "With a stroke, time lost is brain lost, and the GWTGStroke Initial Performance Achievement Award addresses the important element of time," said Dr. Jeffrey Saver, professor of neurology and co-director of the UC...Breakdown of myelin implicated in Alzheimer's, UCLA research shows
... Myelination continues sheathing axons until we reach the age of about 50, but in these later stages, the myelin becomes more and more susceptible to damage. Now, in a report in the April issue of the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia, Dr. George Ba...UCLA surgeon honored with American Association for Thoracic Surgery's Achievement Award
... ... Previous recipients of this award are an illustrious group of cardiac surgeons of worldwide eminence that include John Kirklin, Norm...UCLA study finds severe shortage of Latino dentists
... IMPACT: Latino dentists are likely to both speak Spanish and English, and to practice in areas with heavy Latino populations. As a result, there will be fewer dentists to serve this popu...US child health system needs total overhaul, UCLA researchers say
... In their report, which appears in the current issue of the journal Health Affairs, Dr. Neal Halfon, director of the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities at UCLAs School of Public He...UCLA expert to discuss medical consequences of meth abuse at AAAS
At the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Edythe London, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Science, UCLA, will be part of a panel of world-renowned neuroscientists presenting recent advances in brain-imaging that have revolutionized our understanding of addiction as a...UCLA study finds a need for services that help homeless youth obtain health insurance
FINDINGS: Researchers examined health care service use among a group of newly homeless adolescents who had become homeless two years prior to see if differences existed among those who had returned home and those who remained homeless. By the end of that period, 63 percent had returned home, with the rest remaining homeless. The researchers found that most youths in the study sought out health...UCLA neurologist honored with American Heart Association's Stroke Council Award
... The Stroke Council Award recognizes and encourages those who actively work to integrate stroke and heart disease in clinical care, education or research. Individuals committed to promoting wider recognition of stroke in the cardiovascular community and of heart disease in the stroke community are recognized for their uniqu...UCLA cancer researchers develop quality measures for colorectal cancer surgery
... Improving the quality of surgical care for colorectal cancer patients is vital as the number of resections continues to increase in an aging population, said Dr. Clifford Ko, an associate professor of surgery, a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and lead author of the study. About 148,000 people will get colorectal cancer this year alone, and ab...UCLA study reports conflict of interest policies and practices of major journals
... The study, published in the December issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, is one of the largest studies of its kind, and evaluated conflict of interest policies and practices for a wide range of major biomedical journals, including general and specialty...Elsevier and UCLA announce the publication of Carranza's Clinical Periodontology
... The landmark 10th edition is authored by Michael G. Newman, DDS, Henry H. Takei, DDS, MS, Perry R. Klokkevold, DDS, MS and Editor Emeritus, Fermin A. Carranza, DR ODONT. These authors have recruited the top experts from around the world to contrib...UCLA study shows altering fatty acid levels in diet may reduce prostate cancer growth rate
... ... The omega-6 fatty acids contained in corn, safflower oi...Multi-tasking adversely affects brain's learning, UCLA psychologists report
Multi-tasking affects the brain's learning systems, and as a result, we do not learn as well when we are distracted, UCLA psychologists report this week in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.... "Multi-tasking adversely affects how you learn," said Russell Poldrack, UCLA associate professor of psychology and co-author of the study. "Even if you learn while mult...UCLA develops unique nerve-stimulation epilepsy treatment
... ... The trigeminal nerve extends into the brain from the face and forehead, and is known to play a role in seizure inhib...UCLA leads national effort to address New Orleans' mental health needs
... "There has rightfully been a lot of attention on ensuring that the people of New Orleans have safety, shelter, food and medicine, but in addition to issues of survival, many people in New Orleans in response to Katrina have very serious mental disorders as well as severe emotional distress," said Mays, director...UCLA/VA study: Many patients not receiving follow-up tests after positive screening for colon cancer
A UCLA/Veteran's Affairs study showed that more than 40 percent of patients who initially had received a positive result on a fecal occult blood test (FOBT) -- an initial screening tool for colon cancer -- did not receive appropriate diagnostic follow-up tests such as a colonoscopy or barium enema in 2002. According to the authors, the study may even underestimate this problem in the United State...UCLA study finds that simple lifestyle changes may improve cognitive function and brain efficiency
A UCLA research study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry found that people may be able to improve their cognitive function and brain efficiency by making simple lifestyle changes such as incorporating memory exercises, healthy eating, physical fitness and stress reduction into their daily lives....... "We've known for several years that diet and exercise c...Students feel safer in ethnically diverse schools, UCLA psychologists report
Middle school students are more likely to feel safer, less bullied and less lonely in ethnically diverse schools, psychologists from UCLA and UC Davis report in a new study of more than 70 sixth-grade classrooms in 11 Los Angeles public middle schools with predominantly minority and low-income students....... "Bullying happens in every school, and many students are concerned about their safety,"...UCLA researchers discover how drug binds to neurons to stop drunken symptoms of alcohol
FINDINGS: UCLA researchers discovered how an experimental drug, called Ro15-4513, binds to specific receptors on brain neurons, which helps explain how this drug stops the drunken behavioral symptoms of alcohol such as impaired motor coordination, memory loss and drowsiness. ...... The team showed in the lab that Ro15-4513 binds to and blocks alcohol action on these highly alcohol-sensitive recep...UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center named Survivorship Center of Excellence
UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center has been named a LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence by the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) and will join a network of five leading centers nationwide that will work together to address the needs of the growing number of cancer survivors in the United States....... A five-year, $1.7-million grant from the foundation will establish UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Cent...UCLA finds cancer drug may improve progeria; genetic disease causes accelerated aging in children
UCLA researchers found that an experimental cancer drug improves the signs of progeria in a mouse model. Progeria is a rare genetic disease causing accelerated aging and cardiovascular disease in children. The new UCLA findings help to define a new strategy for treating children with progeria. ... ...One in four million children are born with progeria that can result in dwarfism, baldness, wri...UCLA researches heart disease-glucose connection
Men with cardiovascular disease may be at considerably increased risk for death even when their blood sugar level remains in the "normal" range, suggests a new study by a team of scientists at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The study, a statistical analysis examining the connection between glucose (blood sugar) levels and death in patients with cardiovascular disease, will b...UCLA develops new method to track neuron cell death leading to Alzheimer's disease
: UCLA researchers developed a new brain imaging strategy that tracks neural cell loss in the hippocampus, a key memory center of the brain. Using a chemical marker called MPPF and positron emission tomography (PET), researchers measured the amount of serotonin receptors 1A found in neurons abundantly present in the hippocampus. In Alzheimer's disease these neural cells die, causing the hippoc...UCLA paper examines how one disease may prevent another
The knowledge that one disease may prevent the onset of another is not new. For example, the discovery that cowpox vaccines can prevent smallpox dates back to 1798.... ...Dr. E. Richard Stiehm, a professor of pediatrics at the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, researched examples throughout medical history of ways that one disease prevents another.... ...His findings suggest that genetic, infec...Alzheimer patients treated with testosterone in UCLA-led study show improved quality of life
The first study of the effects of testosterone on mood, behavior and psychological health in men with mild Alzheimer disease finds significant improvements in quality of life, as assessed by caregivers....... Led by neuroscientists at the UCLA Alzheimer Disease Research Center and detailed in an early online release of the peer-reviewed journal Archives of Neurology, the double blind, placebo-con...UCLA scientists discover immune response to HIV differs, even in identical twins
In findings illustrating the difficulty of developing an AIDS vaccine, UCLA AIDS Institute researchers report the immune systems in two HIV-positive identical twins responded to the infection in different ways....... ), the findings show that the body's defenses against the virus are random rather than genetically determined....... The researchers followed the cases of male twins who were infecte...UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system
New imaging research at UCLA detailed Dec. 4 as an advance online publication of the journal Nature Neuroscience shows children with autism have virtually no activity in a key part of the brain's mirror neuron system while imitating and observing emotions....... Mirror neurons fire when a person performs a goal-directed action and while he or she observes the same action performed by others. Neur...UCLA study identifies $7 in societal savings for every $1 spent on drug abuse treatment
Published Oct. 20 in the online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Health Services Research, the study finds that the average $1,583 cost of substance abuse treatment is offset by monetary benefits such as reduced costs of crime and increased employment earnings totaling $11,487. ......The researcher team used detailed data from 2,567 clients admitted to 43 treatment providers in 13 California...UCLA/VA research analysis in journal Nature explains wide variations in animal sleep habits
An extensive research analysis by a neuroscientist at UCLA's Semel Institute and the Veterans Affairs' Neurobiology Research Laboratory concludes that environment and diet largely determine sleep needs. ......Appearing in the Oct. 27 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Nature, the analysis shows that meat-eating species sleep the most and grazing animals the least. Sleep amounts range from 20 ho...AIDS inflicts specific pattern of brain damage, reveals UCLA/Pittsburgh imaging study
A new UCLA/University of Pittsburgh imaging study for the first time shows the selective pattern of destruction inflicted by AIDS on brain regions that control motor, language and sensory functions. High-resolution 3-D color scans created from magnetic resonance images (MRI) vividly illustrate the damage. ...... Published Oct. 10 by the online Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, th...Seniors with low age expectations likelier to lead sedentary lives, new UCLA study finds
...... A new UCLA study found that seniors with the lowest expectations for aging --that is, for what one can do at an advanced age -- were the most likely to lead sedentary lifestyles. Seniors with the lowest age expectations were more than twice as likely to report engaging in less than 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity during the previous week than those with higher age expectation...UCLA study tackles aging issues of adults with developmental disabilities
Some 4.5 million Americans have a developmental disability. As people live longer, adults with developmental disabilities are no exception, yet their conditions also bring aging-related challenges. A new study by UCLA and Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation reports that a geriatric evaluation and follow-up visits by a nurse practitioner can detect and reduce health problems in this populatio...UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs
Researchers at UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System conducted the largest and most comprehensive study in comparing the cost-effectiveness of current modern drugs for treating hepatitis B -- a disease affecting 350 million worldwide....... Published in the May 17 Annals of Internal Medicine, the study may help physicians worldwide in making treatment decisions. Res...UCLA researchers find common gastrointestinal condition keeps patients up at night
Los Angeles, May 16, 2005 A multinational survey of almost 2,000 people with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) found that approximately half have trouble sleeping, which affects their work productivity and leisure activities. The results were presented today by UCLA researchers at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in Chicago, IL. ...... ...... Approximately 61 million...