BYLINE: Enrique Rivero EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL: 7:30 A.M. (ET) ON JANUARY 6, 2024 About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from overdoses in 2022,…
Read more About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from overdoses in 2022, driven by fentanyl-laced prescription pillsBYLINE: Denise Heady Newswise — Treatment with datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd), a novel Trop-2 directed antibody-drug conjugate, was found to significantly improve progression-free survival in patients with metastatic non-small…
Read more Antibody-drug conjugate helps patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer live longer, delaying disease progressionEMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL: 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Sept. 14, 2023 Newswise — Overdose deaths from fentanyl laced stimulants have risen 50-fold since 2010 The trend…
Read more Overdose deaths from fentanyl laced stimulants have risen 50-fold since 2010BYLINE: Denise Heady Newswise — A study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center sheds new light on why tumors that have spread to the…
Read more Study could help explain why certain brain tumors don’t respond well to immunotherapyNewswise — E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and executive medical director of the UCLA Health…
Read more E. Dale Abel Receives Endocrine Society Lifetime Achievement AwardEMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL: 1:30 p.m. (EDT) on June 24, 2023 Newswise — Monthly cash payments to eligible families under the temporary pandemic-era expansion of the federal Child…
Read more The expanded Child Tax Credit led to improved health and nutrition among adultsNewswise — UCLA Health is now accepting applications for a new cohort of innovators to be part of its TechQuity Accelerator for 2023, an initiative that supports startups…
Read more UCLA Health seeks applicants for next TechQuity Accelerator to support startups with solutions for health inequityEMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL 5 P.M. (EDT) ON MAY 29, 2023 Newswise — New UCLA-led research suggests that patient mortality rates, readmissions, length of stay, and health care spending…
Read more UCLA-led research suggests no difference in health outcomes, care costs for patients treated by traditional MDs or osteopathsUCLA Health Tip Sheet Feb. 21, 2023 Below is a brief roundup of news and story ideas from the experts at UCLA Health. For more information on these…
Read more UCLA Health tip sheet: Pesticides & Parkinson’s symptoms; Gender-affirming hormones improve mental health; Body composition & cardiovascular diseaseEMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 Newswise — New UCLA research suggests that smoking tobacco and vaping electronic cigarettes may increase…
Read more Tobacco and e-cigs may put healthy young people at risk of severe COVID illness, new UCLA research suggestsFINDINGS New UCLA-led research suggests that antiretroviral drugs called TAF and TDF directly reduce energy production by mitochondria, structures inside cells that generate the power that cells use…
Read more Commonly used antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV and hepatitis B reduce immune cells’ energy productionNewswise — New onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with diabetes is highest among racial and ethnic minority groups compared with white persons, a UCLA-Providence study finds.…
Read more New Onset Chronic Kidney Disease in People with Diabetes Highest Among Ethnic, Racial MinoritiesNewswise — UCLA Research Brief BOTTOM LINE: Men with prostate cancer who are receiving radiation often benefit from adding to the treatment androgen deprivation therapy, a form of…
Read more New Analysis Led by Ucla Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Finds Timing Androgen-Deprivation Therapy with Radiation Therapy Improves Outcomes in Localized Prostate Cancer
