Each year millions of patients check into hospitals for treatment and instead get a completely different medical condition than they came in with ““ a hospital-acquired infection.

By day, she studies and teaches chemistry, but by night, Robin Higgins commands the audiences of bars and clubs with her humor.

To aid patients with severe facial abnormalities, the UCLA Health System launched a face transplantation program last week ““ the first in the western United States.

Earth has more of it than scientists can explain. And if it exists on nearby planets, it could mean that there are other life forms in solar systems elsewhere in the universe.

The morning after his lonely flight to America from Iran, Omid Yousefian, a graduate of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education, stood in the UCLA admissions office, feeling terrible.

Every Tuesday and Thursday at noon, the rapid crunch of grass and competitiveness on the North Athletic Field is countered by the occasional soccer player casually leaving for a meeting.

For UCLA premedical students, months of studying and the five-and-a-half-hour-long exam could determine whether or not they can pursue careers as medical doctors.

All University of California facilities will be required to go tobacco-free beginning in 2014, according to a letter UC President Mark Yudof sent to UC chancellors on Monday.

The newly announced ban extends to the sale and advertisement of tobacco on campus.

On a flat section of grass beside Janss Steps, a couple lounged on a blanket and a few students curled up with books.

Tobacco companies have deliberately ignored startling tobacco cancer risks since 1959, according to newly released internal documents, UCLA researchers say.