UCLA Health's Healthy Years (HY)
Volume 21 • Number 5 • May 2024
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world, just behind cataracts. It’s an insidiously subtle disease. Unless you have regular comprehensive eye exams, you may not even realize you’ve lost some peripheral vision, which is a key indicator of glaucoma. And once that vision is lost, you …
Issue Highlights
Humans are hosts to trillions of microbes that live in and on the body. Inside the gut, the microbes signal …
With all the political wrangling about climate change, it may feel like there’s little one person can do to make …
Every 40 seconds someone in the United States has a stroke. That person is more than likely age 65 or …
At its core, anger serves an important purpose. It signals a threat and demands a reaction. Defining the threat and …
According to dietitians, essential nutrients should, ideally, come from food. In particular, whole foods are recommended because nutrients combine with …