UCLA researchers found that patients’ decision-making about how and when to seek treatment for kidney stones was driven by logistical barriers and patients’ reluctance to risk exposure to COVID-19 in health care facilities.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Reddit shows people with kidney stones have been less likely to seek treatment during pandemic
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Older people often incorrectly assume medicines don’t have potential side effects
When physicians failed to verbally provide information about potential side effects, older people incorrectly assumed that about 55% of their prescribed medications had none. When they did provide the information, patients incorrectly assumed there wer…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: ‘Mini brain’ organoids grown in lab mature much like infant brains
A new study from UCLA and Stanford University researchers finds that three-dimensional human stem cell-derived ‘mini brain’ organoids can mature in a manner that is strikingly similar to human brain development.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: UCLA study finds combination therapy suppresses pancreatic tumor growth in mice
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have uncovered a potential new way to target pancreatic tumors that express high intratumoral interferon signaling (IFN).
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Model helps predict which patients will benefit most from PSMA PET scan
A new study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center helps identify which patients with prostate cancer will benefit most from the use of prostate-specific membrane antigen PET imaging, PSMA PET, a novel imaging technique that…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: ACTG Adds Four Promising New Therapies to ACTIV-2 Outpatient Treatment Study
The AIDS Clinical Trials Group has added rapid infusion, intramuscular injection, an inhalant, and an oral agent to its ACTIV-2 phase 2 and 3 evaluations of multiple investigational agents for treating early, symptomatic COVID-19 in a single trial for …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: UCLA Health receives $29 million gift to establish center in precision genomic medicine
The center will build on UCLA’s efforts in precision health to leverage large data sets and genomic technologies such as CRISPR engineering and develop individually targeted treatments for genetic disorders such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, Parki…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: UCLA Health receives $29 million gift to establish center in precision genomic medicine
The center will build on UCLA’s efforts in precision health to leverage large data sets and genomic technologies such as CRISPR engineering and develop individually targeted treatments for genetic disorders such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, Parki…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Combination therapy with radiation shows promise in treating glioblastoma
In a study of mice, researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a new approach that combines an anti-psychotic drug, a statin used to lower high cholesterol levels, and radiation to improve the overall survival in mice w…
