Stroke Center receives research grant The UCLA Stroke Center has received a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research in therapies and treatments of stroke. Read more...

You just got back from a midterm that you know you failed. Walking down your hall in a daze, you are greeted by your roommate. “Dude, sorry about what happened,” he says with a smirk. Read more...

Sufferers of a common psychiatric illness can make a conscious decision to change their biology. Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder can change their brain activity through cognitive behavioral therapy over the course of a year, according to a recent UCLA study. Read more...

The small medical clinic off the highway in Falmouth, Jamaica could be overlooked in a blink of an eye, yet some patients drive six hours across the island to visit the clinic’s medical staff. Read more...

At least a hundred lights were flickering in Drake Stadium at 9 p.m. on Saturday night. Each one stood aglow in the name of someone with cancer. Read more...

UCLA researchers might have overcome one of the major hurdles in using gene therapy to treat cancer: the question of how to best administer the treatment. Read more...

In its long history, contraception has come a long way, from dangerous and bizarre methods like drinking mercury to the comparably simple once-a-day birth control pill. Read more...