Testing for HIV has long carried a certain stigma that has discouraged some from getting tested. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend HIV screening as a routine part of medical care. Read more...

University of California faculty brought home the Nobel Prize in physics for the 15th time on Tuesday. George F. Smoot, UC Berkeley professor and experimental astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and UC Berkeley alumnus John C. Read more...

As dusk peaked through the curtains of the Grand Horizon Ballroom in Covel Commons on Oct. 2, Yom Kippur observers endured the remaining moments of their 25-hour fast. Read more...

For many years Mustafa Abdul-Hamid has followed the fasting tradition of the Islam religion during Ramadan, but this year he won’t be able to do it. Read more...

With the sun setting on their backs, more than 100 Muslim students gathered at the loading dock behind Kerckhoff on Monday to break their fast, but before they could take their first sip of water since sunrise, they prayed. Read more...

After two pickets and months of contract negotiations, a union representing UCLA trade and technical workers reached an agreement Friday for a new contract with the university. Read more...

Some doctors now say it may be only a matter of time before HIV screening is just as commonplace as testing for blood pressure or cholesterol levels. Read more...