There are at least some UCLA researchers who believe that religion is not a topic inviolable by science.

When a team of Japanese researchers approached Edwin Cooper seven years ago about becoming the editor in chief of a new journal on complementary and alternative medicine, he had his doubts.

Although 100 years have passed since Chagas was formally documented, little is known about the disease or how to treat it.

Effective treatments and vaccines for HIV have so far been elusive, and UCLA researchers said they do not believe a solution for either will present itself in the next few years.

Jerome Siegel, professor in residence at the David Geffen School of Medicine, said he believes our society has a negatively distorted perception of sleep.

Alice Wexler, a research scholar at UCLA who has written two books on Huntington’s Disease, said there was a time when the disease was heavily stigmatized and physicians saw no purpose in treating it.

Thirty-five teachers from abroad and around the country gathered today at Hedrick Hall to begin a three-day workshop in statistics education.