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Major depression is a common and disabling brain condition marked not only by the presence of depressed mood but also by its effects on sleep, energy, decision-making, memory and thoughts of death or of suicide.
Major depression affects 15 million adults in the U.S., ...
Published:2 September 2010, 3:00 am
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WHAT: In a free program, UCLA experts will present the latest options in prostate cancer treatments and research. The lecture will focus on robotic surgery as a treatment option. The program is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Urology and the Specialize...
Published:23 August 2010, 9:00 am
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One of the most difficult aspects of working at the nanoscale is actually seeing the object being worked on. Biological structures like viruses, which are smaller than the wavelength of light, are invisible to standard optical microscopes and difficult to capture in their native ...
Published:31 August 2010, 3:00 am
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A majority of adults in California are obese or overweight, and more than 2 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Both conditions — which are related to each other as well as to heart dise...
Published:31 August 2010, 2:00 am
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In the winter of 1979, the world celebrated the end of smallpox, a highly contagious and often fatal viral infection estimated to have caused between 300 and 500 million deaths during the 20th century.
The virus was eradicated through an aggressive worldwide vaccination ca...
Published:30 August 2010, 12:00 am
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Juli Oh Thank You To Jules Stein Eye Institute. I can now have the eye surgery after waiting for the insurance to approve. I am so happy and it really means a lot to me...

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A new fact sheet from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research provides detailed county-by-county estimates of the number of California residents who have lost health insurance during the economic downturn.
Following on a statewide estimate published earlier this year, t...
Published:23 August 2010, 12:00 am
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UCLA RESEARCH ALERT
FINDINGS:
Genes reside along long chains of DNA called chromosomes. UCLA researchers have found that a variation in a gene on the sex chromosome X may enhance an immune response that leads to lupus in men....
Published:23 August 2010, 12:00 am
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Adult stem cells that are vital for airway repair in the lung but that persist in areas where pre-cancerous lesions are found are associated with a poor prognosis in patients who develop cancer, even those with early-stage disease, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Canc...
Published:17 August 2010, 8:00 am
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UCLA Staff Assembly  congratulates Jonathan Wilson as the winner of our raffle (a pair of UCLA vs Stanford game tickets). Do you want another chance to win? Visit us at the Staff Assembly booth at the UCLA Health System Wellness Fair this Wednesday from 11-1pm (RRUCLAMC Dining Patio) to get your secrete phrase.

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 11:00am
Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA

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Scientists from UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Korea's Yonsei University have developed an innovative method that enables nanomachines to release drugs inside living cancer cells when activated remotely by an oscillating magnetic field.
The new system — ...
Published:9 August 2010, 12:00 am
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In one of the first efforts of its kind, UCLA researchers have taken mammalian genome maps, including human maps, one step further by showing not just the order in which genes fall in the genome but which genes actually interact.
The findings, published in the August...
Published:9 August 2010, 12:00 am
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Research has documented that ethnic and socioeconomic disparities exist among patients with conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. Now, a new study by researchers from UCLA and Harvard University has found disparities among children suffering from repeated ear infect...
Published:9 August 2010, 12:00 am
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