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Science & Health

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April 7, 11:10 pm

Nack Behavioral Health provides extensive mental health services to UCLA students

For students who need mental health support, UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services partners with Nack Behavioral Health – an outpatient program located in Westwood that caters specifically to college students. Read more...

Photo: Nack Behavioral Health, an intensive outpatient program partnered with UCLA CAPS, specializes in treating UCLA undergraduate and graduate students with primary mental health disorders – conditions that affect mood, thinking and behavior as well as hinder daily functioning. (Courtesy of Nack)

A Closer Look, Academics, News, Science & Health

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April 5, 8:29 pm

Q&A: Dr. Gail Wyatt reflects on career, advocacy after receiving humanitarian award

Gail Wyatt, a distinguished professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, received the Association of Black Women Physicians’ Humanitarian Award in October. Read more...

Photo: Gail Wyatt, who received the Association of Black Women Physicians’ Humanitarian Award in October, is a distinguished professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, which is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)

California, News, Science & Health

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April 5, 8:24 pm

State ballot proposal would approve $8.4 billion in bonds to fund medical research

This post was updated April 5 at 9:54 p.m. California nonprofits are working to put an initiative funding immunology research on the November ballot. The initiative would authorize $8.4 billion of state bonds to support the research – half of which would be required to support developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and heart disease – if 546,651 signatures are collected for it to appear on the ballot. Read more...

Photo: Students are pictured on Bruin Walk, a location where petitioners gather signatures. California nonprofits are working to put an initiative funding immunology research on the November ballot. (Daily Bruin file photo)

Academics, News, Science & Health

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March 30, 5:12 pm

UCLA researchers develop cell therapy for aggressive breast cancer treatment

This post was updated March 31 at 11:21 p.m. UCLA researchers developed a human stem cell-derived cell therapy for an aggressive type of breast cancer. This study focused on modifying natural killer T – or NKT – cells, which are a specialized immune cell that quickly responds to cancer cells, according to the National Cancer Institute. Read more...

Photo: (Ji-Tao Yuen / Daily Bruin)

Los Angeles, News, Regents, Science & Health, UC

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March 18, 2:25 pm

UC approves $298.2 million budget to convert LA building into UCLA Health complex

The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex. The project will convert an office building in El Segundo into UCLA Health South Bay, which will house a Sports Medicine Institute and create community fill and specialty pharmacies. Read more...

Photo: Michael Cohen, the chair of the UC Board of Regent’s finance and capital strategies committee, is pictured. The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex during the committee’s Wednesday meeting. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)

A Closer Look, Academics, California, Campus, News, Science & Health

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March 15, 6:57 pm

UCLA Health is leading the effort to treat and destigmatize addiction

This post was updated April 2 at 10:06 p.m. Dr. Julio Meza lost two family members to addiction-related illnesses when he was a child. Now, as a UCLA Health physician, he leads a program providing doctors with addiction-specific training. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Gonda building, which houses the Brain Research Institute that hosts the UCLA Integrative Center for Addictive Disorders, is pictured. (Michael Gallagher/Assistant Photo editor)


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