Los Angeles County received a C+ on a report card from UCLA yesterday for multiple environmental factors. The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability graded the entire county together on multiple factors relating to environmental health, such as water, air, ecosystems, waste, energy and quality of life. Read more...
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April 8, 6:18 pm
LA County receives C-plus on environmental health report
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April 6, 12:28 am
Share the Journey app collects data for breast cancer study
Purple peaks on a virtual graph track Patricia Ganz’s daily exercise levels, rising and falling with the steps her iPhone sensor records each day. But Ganz’s new app isn’t just a pedometer; it allows female Apple users across the United States to log their daily mood swings and sleep habits as part of a mobile-driven research study on the effects of breast cancer treatment. Read more...
Photo: UCLA cancer researcher Dr. Patricia Ganz recently launched a patient-centered mobile app that allows women to track their symptoms and disease progress in collaboration with Apple and Sage Bionetworks. (Sonja Bartlett/Daily Bruin)
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April 3, 4:18 pm
UC student health center doctors to hold second strike
Doctors at the University of California student health centers will go on their second strike in three months starting Thursday, claiming the UC has not provided the financial information that the union needs. Read more...
Photo: University of California doctors in the Union of American Physicians and Dentists went on a one-day strike in January. The union will go on another strike starting Thursday. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
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April 3, 1:18 am
UCLA students unable to recognize and reproduce the Apple logo
UCLA psychologists found that out of 85 UCLA students, only one could correctly reproduce the Apple logo when asked to draw it. Less than half of these students could identify the logo when shown it, leading the psychologists to conclude that our brains have led us to not remember specific details. Read more...
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April 2, 1:57 am
UCLA professor combines expertise in public health, bioterrorism
Peter Katona spends his spare time giving talks on biological weapons and terrorism across the country. Otherwise, he can be found doing clinical rounds in the halls of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Read more...
Photo: Peter Katona gives talks on bioterrorism and weapons of mass destruction apart from working as a doctor at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
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April 1, 8:08 am
Health agency report indicates scope cleaning guidelines insufficient
A Seattle health agency warned Monday that the scopes that caused a superbug outbreak at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have caused even more infections than those currently known. Read more...
Photo: (Daily Bruin file photo)
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March 28, 9:41 pm
Olympus issues new scope cleaning guidelines after superbug outbreak
The manufacturer of medical scopes linked to last month’s superbug outbreak at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center released new cleaning guidelines for its scopes Thursday. Read more...