UCLA officials have known since late January about the link between a “superbug” outbreak and two patient deaths at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, officials said at a press conference outside the hospital Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Zachary Rubin, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center’s medical director of clinical epidemiology and infection prevention, spoke at a press conference Thursday about the superbug. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety warning Thursday that the design of a widely used medical scope may prevent it from being effectively sterilized and lead to the transmission of bacteria between patients. Read more...
Photo: More than 100 patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have been exposed to a “superbug” between October and January. (Daily Bruin file photo)
More than 100 patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have been exposed to a superbug between October and January, according to a statement from the UCLA Health System. Read more...
Photo: More than 100 patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have been exposed to a “superbug” between October and January. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Kim McGill thought analyzing data on police violence was more important than celebrating romance on Valentine’s Day. McGill, co-founder of Youth Justice Coalition and activist in grassroots movements to battle inequities in the police system, worked to do this along with 50 other UCLA students and community members. Read more...
Photo: Participants of the Hackathon on Police Brutality Data in Los Angeles County hosted by the UCLA information studies departments discuss strategies on how to begin mining data. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. Dr. Chia Soo turns on a video filled with the faces of injured war veterans. Read more...
Photo: UCLA researchers and graduate students Dr. Eric Chen (back left), Greg Asatrian (back right), Dr. Benjamin Wu, Dr. Chia Soo, Dr. Jin Hee Kwak and Dr. Kang Ting (front left to right), are studying the effects of osteoporosis in rodents to find a new way to help people suffering from the disease. (Maryrose Kulick/Daily Bruin)
Researchers at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science recently developed an elastic, flexible and transparent lighting panel out of organic materials. Organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, run electricity through carbon-based, solid-state polymers to emit light. Read more...
Richard Finn transferred to UCLA as an undergraduate freshman from UC San Diego in the late 1970s to be closer to home after his mother died of breast cancer when he was a college freshman. Read more...
Photo: Dennis Slamon (left) and Richard Finn (right) developed Ibrance, a breast cancer drug that has been recently approved by the FDA. (UCLA Newsroom)
