Category Archives: Science & Health

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. The same researchers, hailing from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and biobehavioral sciences department, are now […]

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. They begin lining up on the deck of the white-washed veranda at dawn throughout the week. By 8:30 in the morning, […]

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. Holding their lights and hugging, the participants of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life fund-raiser ““ the first ever at UCLA ““ shared a lap around the […]

Relay for Life to raise funds for cancer research The American Cancer Society will host the Relay for Life in Drake Stadium on Saturday, May 8. Participants, including cancer survivors and their families, can attend the 24- hour fund-raising event for cancer research. Survivors of cancer will open the event with the first lap at […]

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. Gene therapies are currently administered to the body in a variety of ways, such as intravenously ““ injecting genetic material into the veins ““ or intralymphatically ““ injecting it into […]

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. Speakers at the “For Women Only” forum discussed the wide gamut of contraceptive options ““ conventional as well as new methods ““ Thursday evening. “Our goal is to inform […]

Correction appended It is only five minutes into the lecture, but you realize you already made two mistakes ““ coming to the class and sitting in the front row. You really have to go to the bathroom. Again. Eventually, your urge to pee overcomes your fear of social inadequacy. But on your fourth trip to […]