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About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from overdoses in 2022, driven by fentanyl-laced prescription pills
[ad_1] BYLINE: Enrique Rivero EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL: 7:30 A.M. (ET) ON JANUARY 6, 2024 About 22 high school…
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Researchers awarded $3 million to develop AI to better detect aggressive prostate cancer
[ad_1] BYLINE: Denise Heady Newswise — Researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a five-year, $3…
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Should you stop taking Ozempic to participate in the festivities of this holiday season?
[ad_1] With the increasing number of people choosing Ozempic as the latest solution for weight loss, some are questioning the…
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Surgeon and thoracic surgical oncologist Dr. Bryan Burt named chief of thoracic surgery at UCLA Health
[ad_1] BYLINE: Denise Heady Newswise — Dr. Bryan Burt, an internationally recognized surgeon-scientist and surgical oncologist, has joined UCLA Health…
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Does patient-surgeon gender concordance lead to lower patient mortality? Mostly no, UCLA-led research suggests
[ad_1] BYLINE: Enrique Rivero Newswise — New research finds little evidence that post-surgical patient mortality is lower when patient and…
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AI model can help predict survival outcomes for patients with cancer
[ad_1] BYLINE: Denise Heady Newswise — Investigators from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence…
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Study finds possible early predictor of successful transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for major depression
[ad_1] Newswise — A new study from UCLA Health researchers demonstrates that a novel treatment is effective in most patients…
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Researchers identify previously unknown step in cholesterol absorption in the gut
[ad_1] Newswise — UCLA researchers have described a previously unknown step in the complex process by which dietary cholesterol is…
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Conversational artificial intelligence/large language model can accurately diagnose and triage health conditions, without introducing racial and ethnic biases
[ad_1] FINDINGS GPT-4 conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has the ability to diagnose and triage health conditions comparable to that…
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NIH grants support UCLA and Charles Drew University researchers’ efforts to end HIV epidemic
[ad_1] Newswise — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted $2.1 million to UCLA’s Center for HIV Identification, Prevention,…
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