A UCLA Health surgical team has performed the first-in-human bladder transplant.
Dr. José J. Escarce, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, is a co-author of new research that found self-employed women have fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to non-self-employed women, suggesting that the work environment may play a role in the development of risk factors that can lead to heart attacks.
Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by Politico about the demographics of the U.S. healthcare workforce.
For many of us, a personal experience early in life plants the seed for our future. For Julio Frenk, UCLA’s chancellor and a pioneering public health researcher, that moment occurred when he was 16 and in his last summer of high school. Weighing whether he wanted to go on to study medicine — like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather — or anthropology, the Mexico City native decided to spend several months in an indigenous community in Chiapas, in southern Mexico, observing the work of a famous anthropologist.
Dr. Mark Litwin, UCLA Fielding School professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and professor and chair of the Department of Urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about prostate cancer.
Dr. Dylan Roby, an associate professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by CNBC about the U.S. health insurance industry.
Dr. Mark Litwin, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, is a co-author of new research that found stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), a form of high-dose radiation delivered in just five sessions, is as safe as conventional treatment of prostate cancer, with similar side effects and a similar impact on quality of life.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Joann Elmore, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored an article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could help detect breast cancers that develop between routine screenings before they become more advanced and harder to treat.
Less than half of children ages 5 and younger in California had regular child care arrangements in 2023, with affordability, lack of available space, or concerns about quality being the main reasons, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR).
Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored a data brief published by the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute on the demographics of Medi-Cal enrollees in California.