Gail Wyatt, a distinguished professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, received the Association of Black Women Physicians’ Humanitarian Award in October.

This post was updated April 5 at 9:54 p.m.
California nonprofits are working to put an initiative funding immunology research on the November ballot.
The initiative would authorize $8.4 billion of state bonds to support the research – half of which would be required to support developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and heart disease – if 546,651 signatures are collected for it to appear on the ballot.

This post was edited March 31 at 11:24 p.m.
What many dismiss as harmless hemorrhoids – or just too much time on the toilet – can sometimes be an early warning sign of something more serious.

This post was updated March 31 at 11:21 p.m.
UCLA researchers developed a human stem cell-derived cell therapy for an aggressive type of breast cancer.
This study focused on modifying natural killer T – or NKT – cells, which are a specialized immune cell that quickly responds to cancer cells, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex.
The project will convert an office building in El Segundo into UCLA Health South Bay, which will house a Sports Medicine Institute and create community fill and specialty pharmacies.

This post was updated April 2 at 10:06 p.m.
Dr. Julio Meza lost two family members to addiction-related illnesses when he was a child.
Now, as a UCLA Health physician, he leads a program providing doctors with addiction-specific training.

Science advocates and UCLA Faculty Association members called on Californians to support a bill that would put scientific research funding on the 2026 ballot at a Saturday protest in Westwood.