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UC Riverside-led research shows how deportation acts as a social determinant of health

UC Riverside mouse study finds paternal exposure to phthalates increases risk of metabolic diseases in progeny

Health of Southern California’s farmworkers needs to be a priority, says UC Riverside study

UC Riverside study has health implications for people living around California’s largest lake

UC Riverside researcher argues important post-treatment information is concealed

Data from the California Health Interview Survey and the American Community Survey highlight diversity and needs of California’s fastest growing population groups.

UC Riverside will begin construction this week on a Student Health and Counseling Center that will bring together health and wellness services at an accessible, modern facility. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Friday, Feb. 18 for the planned two-story building located on the western portion of Parking Lot 21...

Five-year, $16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help launch Center for Health Disparities Research at UC Riverside

Nutrition education programs for children should incorporate all family members who act as caregivers

UC Riverside researchers show that in parasitic worm infection both the host and the worm produce cannabis-like molecules

UC Riverside doctors share their thoughts on a growing medical crisis

A person’s general intelligence and ability to understand language are reliant on the brain’s ability to maintain precise information acquired over a short period of time. To understand how these types of natural vision and cognitive functions are achieved in both healthy populations and individuals at high risk for psychosis...

Focusing on hookworms, UC Riverside mouse study identifies role infection-fighting cells play in inflamed and damaged tissue

UC Riverside-led study in Southern California finds stigma, risk perceptions, and cost among major factors contributing to adults’ willingness to get HIV tested

Substantive dialogue may help, but emotional exchanges likely don't. Research finds that substantive conversation – conversation about news and ideas – is reflective of greater well-being among breast cancer patients.

RIVERSIDE, Calif.( www.ucr.edu) – Carolyn B. Murray, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the 2018 Dr. William Montague Cobb Award for special achievements in public health at the local level, presented annually by the National Health Committee of the National Association for the...

UC Riverside’s Maurizio Pellecchia receives grants totaling nearly $2.5 million from National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

UC Riverside biomedical scientists offer simple advice: keep the brain active

Research yields some advice on how to, and how not to, coach children before vaccinations

UC Riverside-led study shows that ‘good inflammation’ promotes axon myelination