An 18-year-old hospital patient at UCLA is suing a health care device maker over alleged negligence and fraud after its medical scopes were tied to UCLA’s superbug outbreak, according to the Los Angeles Times. Read more...
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February 25, 12:20 pm
Patient sues scope manufacturer amid UCLA superbug outbreak
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February 23, 5:27 pm
Lawmaker calls for congressional investigation into superbug outbreak
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) called Monday for Congress to investigate sterilization problems with a widely used medical scope linked to the superbug outbreak at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Read more...
Photo: Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) represents the district that includes UCLA and Westwood in the U.S. House of Representatives. (Courtesy of Ted Lieu)
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February 23, 2:18 pm
David Feinberg to step down as UCLA Health System CEO, president
The president and CEO of the UCLA Health System, Dr. David Feinberg, will step down May 1, Chancellor Gene Block announced Monday. Feinberg is leaving to take a position as the president and CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., the email said. Read more...
Photo: The president and CEO of the UCLA Health System, Dr. David Feinberg, will take a position at the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa. (Courtesy of Morgan Glier)
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February 23, 2:00 am
UCLA lab develops Google Glass app for rapid diagnosis of plant health
Bingen Cortazar takes a leaf, slides it into a small plastic box and holds it in front of his face. He looks at it a moment, then presses a button on the side of the red eyeglass frame-turned-computer. Read more...
Photo: Bingen Cortazar, a graduate student in electrical engineering, uses a Google Glass mobile system he helped develop to measure chlorophyll concentrations in plants. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)
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February 20, 3:25 am
UCLA researcher finds link between Huntington’s disease, altered protein
UCLA researchers may have identified a specific protein linked to the cause of Huntington’s disease, a genetic disorder that causes the breakdown of nerve cells and impairs a person’s movement and cognitive abilities. Read more...
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February 20, 3:19 am
Medical student seeks change in LGBT health care
When David Lyons went to his doctor to get a fertility test, the doctor asked him what his wife’s job was. Lyons politely corrected him – his husband worked in management consulting. Read more...
Photo: David Lyons, a second-year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine, said his tumultuous childhood was one of the reasons he decided to go into medicine and focus on LGBT youth. (Kelsey Kong/Daily Bruin)
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February 19, 5:12 pm
UCLA Health officials hold press conference on superbug outbreak
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)