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A new donation of 40 historical texts from Paul Chrzanowski further bolsters an already remarkable collection of early English texts at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.The newly added items — including a 17th-century…

Doctors at the UCLA Gender Health Program have developed a technique to reduce an Adam’s apple bump without leaving a scar on the patient’s neck.The advance could be an important and welcome one for transgender women and nonbinary people,…

Heat can be deadly.As summer temperatures climb — and as climate change contributes to more 100-degree days each year — heat illnesses become a more serious risk, particularly for young children, older adults, outdoor workers, athletes…

This month, Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix all posted record high temperatures. And across the nation, Americans are ramping up for a scorching summer. Yet despite more frequent and intense heat waves on the horizon, cities are…

A majority of American men who die by suicide don’t have any known history of mental health problems, according to new research by UCLA professor Mark Kaplan and colleagues.“What’s striking about our study is the conspicuous absence of…

A new study by UCLA researchers reveals that adult flu vaccination rates have declined in U.S. states where COVID-19 vaccination rates are also low.The research suggests declining trust in public health, indicating that COVID-19…

The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind — known as a white dwarf — is sucking in debris from both the system’s inner and outer reaches, UCLA astronomers and…

Regardless of race, ethnicity and even political party preference, two separate UCLA-led surveys reveal that majorities of people in each group support access to legal abortion in the United States.Recent large-scale surveys of voters and…

UCLA researchers and UC-affiliated corresponding authors now have greater opportunities for open access publishing, thanks to an agreement between the University of California and SAGE Publishing, one of the largest publishers of UC…

Breast cancer, osteoporosis and infertility don’t just affect women — they also strike animals across the female tree of life.Yet many species have developed physical changes over millions of years that protect them from these conditions,…