Four teams of researchers focused on COVID-19 related data analysis and modeling received grants from the University of California Health and California Department of Public Health (CDPH) COVID Modeling Consortium, an innovative consortium launched last year to ensure…

The ingredients in premium cigars make them inherently as harmful as cigarettes and other types of cigars, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Because the majority of premium cigar smokers are nondaily or…

Dr. Carol Mangione, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and the Barbara A. Levey M.D., and Gerald S. Levey, M.D., Endowed chair in medicine and chief of the UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services…

Dr. Lara Cushing, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Jonathan and Karin Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity and an assistant professor of environmental health sciences, will serve on a panel overseeing California’s efforts to monitor environmental…

Dr. Patricia Ganz, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health distinguished professor of health policy and management, has been elected a fellow of the Philadelphia-based American Association for Cancer Research Academy.

Election to the American Association for…

We hear the term “gut health” a lot, and while it can sound super science-y on the surface, the concept is pretty simple. It refers to the balance of trillions (!) of microorganisms in your digestive tract.

When you have good ​gut health, you’ll experience regular…

Everyone is looking for a way to relieve stress, especially since nearly half of Americans — 47% — report an increase in their stress levels since the pandemic started. One growing (but not new) trend in stress relief involves taking adaptogens – herbs or plants thought…

Cases of COVID-19 are trending down nationally, and many states and cities are lifting mask and vaccine restrictions. But before you rush out to book your next vacation, experts say that the pandemic is not over yet. 

Nothing about the future course of the…

The families of the people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have reached a historic $73 million dollar settlement in a decade-long lawsuit against the maker of the AR-15 weapon the gunman used.

“Twenty children were killed and six adults…

The BBC interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, about the future of the pandemic response in the United States and globally.…

Medi-Cal, the state’s safety net health program, isn’t free for everyone.

More than half a million of California’s lowest-income children, pregnant individuals and working disabled adults are required to pay health insurance premiums, ranging from $13 a month to…

Seventeen years ago this month, I met a musician who slept on L.A.'s skid row and talked about trying to get back on track and join an orchestra. Like many homeless people, he fought a daily battle with mental illness that, for him, first surfaced 35 years earlier, when…

KALW-FM, an NPR affiliate in San Francisco, interviewed Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, for the syndicated NPR program "Your Call," about mental health issues for college…

Public health officials say California’s strict coronavirus policies in schools in recent months have resulted in relatively few pandemic-related campus closures.

Moreover, California’s rates of pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations are the lowest among the nation’s…

It’s been more than two years now since the coronavirus pandemic first arrived in the U.S., and it’s no surprise that “COVID fatigue” is setting in among many Americans who are ready to move on from the pandemic.

Roughly three in four adults across age, gender,…

Over two-thirds of Americans believe they pay too much for the quality of health care they receive, according to a 2021 West Health-Gallup Poll. Almost half of Americans feel even worse about the U.S. health care system as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost one-…

The maternal mortality rate in the United States exceeds that of any other developed country and it increased significantly in 2020, according to a new analysis. Outcomes are particular troubling for Black women, who face a risk nearly three times that of white women,…

Over a million Ukrainians have fled the country amid Russia's invasion so far. Public health experts told Insider that there's a correlation between war and public health. They're concerned that infectious diseases could spread and chronic illnesses will get…

Palliative care can be a godsend in the final days of one's life, but new research shows that Black and Hispanic nursing home residents are far less likely to receive it than their white peers are.

Overall, nursing homes in the Northeast provided the most…

In grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve understandably had to place most of our focus on studying and combating the disease upending society. But beyond the direct health impacts of the virus, the pandemic has had reverberations that have thrown cities, workplaces…