Friday, October 16

Editorial: Fight against HIV/AIDS as important as ever

For every medical and societal step forward in the fight against HIV and AIDS, it seems nature and human complacency have an equally significant counterattack. Anti-viral drugs have kept millions of HIV-positive people alive for increasing numbers of years, but AIDS is still deadly ““ and still spreading. Read more...



Breaking barriers

Under the freeway overpass at Pico and Sawtelle boulevards, a trailer sits on the dirt floor, and a group of men wait for work nearby under a white tent that shelters several old couches and a television from the rain. Read more...


School of Law hosts biannual competition

Preparations for the Spring Moot Court Competition oral arguments, which will take place on Feb. 19, are currently underway at the UCLA School of Law. Forty-seven students are participating in the competition, which simulates an appellate court. Read more...



Folk medicine goes online

As a teenager, Professor Michael Owen Jones remembers having a particular wart on his finger. Based on the advice of a farmer, he rubbed the wart with a piece of apple, and buried the apple in the ground. Read more...


Hospital construction over budget

Construction shortfalls and delays at the Westwood Replacement Hospital will cost UCLA an estimated $35 million to $45 million more than anticipated by the time the hospital opens for operation in 2007, said the hospital’s project director Thursday. Read more...