Increasing numbers of Californians worry about paying their housing costs and consequently have run up credit card debt, taken on additional work to make ends meet and stopped saving for retirement, according to 2024 data released today by UCLA’s California Health Interview Survey, or CHIS.
New research warns that the failure to build resilience within primary health care (PHC) in Latin America and the Caribbean could lead to significant preventable losses in both lives and long-term economic development and have tremendous impacts across the Western Hemisphere.
Transgender and bisexual adults in California are more likely than other LGBT adults to report serious thoughts of suicide and moderate or serious psychological distress, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Res
For the first time in history, one out of every five people in the U.S. are Latino, according to a new data analysis by the Latino GDP Project from UCLA and California Lutheran University.
College students’ reports of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts have continued to move in a positive direction, the third year in a row of such improvements since 2022, researchers have found.
The UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed new leadership to several of its programs, bringing together a team of experts poised to advance cancer discoveries, education and patient care.
UCLA and UC Davis will co-lead a newly funded, multi-institutional clinical trial to evaluate whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help support radiologists in interpreting mammograms more accurately, with the goal of improving breast cancer screening and reducing unnecessary callbacks and anxiety for patients.
The daughter of San Joaquin Valley farmworkers has earned the opportunity to study alongside a nationally prominent UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researcher to improve the health of California’s agricultural laborers.
Inside Higher Ed interviewed Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, about the 2024-2025 Healthy Minds Survey.
College students continue to report poor mental health, with more than one in three students saying they experience moderate anxiety or depression.