Dr. Murray E. Jarvik, emeritus professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at UCLA and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, died May 8 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long struggle with congestive heart failure. He was 84.
The UCLA Technology and Aging Conference will bring together academic and industry experts to highlight the latest medical and consumer technologies leading to longer, healthier lives.
In an innovative study led by Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, a researcher at the UCLA Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, music will be used as a tool to explore the ability of children with autism spectrum disorders to identify emotions in musical excerpts and facial expressions.
With more and more branded consumer products finding their way directly into popular television sitcoms and dramas, are prescription drugs soon to follow? Pharmaceutical product placement in TV shows is a very real possibility that warrants attention from the federal Food and Drug Administration and other policymakers, a new UCLA report argues.
Stem cell researchers at UCLA have grown functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. The finding is the first to show that induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells — which don't involve the use of embryos or eggs — can be differentiated into the three types of cardiovascular cells needed to repair the heart and blood vessels.
Researchers at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA have found that low-dose antidepressant therapy can significantly improve the overall quality of life for adolescents suffering from irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS.
"We are deeply troubled that a former employee may have illegally received payments from a news organization in exchange for providing personal medical information," begins Dr. David T. Feinberg, chief executive officer and interim vice chancellor of the UCLA Hospital System.
Nearly two out of three patients who end up in the hospital for heart failure suffer from at least one "precipitating factor," say researchers who examined data on some 49,000 heart failure patients collected during their...
