The UCLA Health System recently implemented a program to use antibiotic-free meat in an effort to have the hospitals serve healthier food. Thirty percent of the meat university hospitals now use is antibiotic-free as a part of Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Food in Health Care program and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative said Patricia Oliver, the director of nutrition for the UCLA Health System. Read more...
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April 16, 12:54 am
UCLA Health System introduces antibiotic-free meat
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April 14, 2:16 am
LA Hacks gathers about 1,300 participants at UCLA for hackathon
Aspiring web producers and app developers exclaimed as they held their smartphones up to capture the impressive scene of having more than a thousand hackers gathered in one space to spend the next 36 hours innovating and developing new ideas together. Read more...
Photo: Fourteen-year-old Ankur Jain works on his project during LA Hacks. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin staff)
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April 9, 12:49 pm
Cyber Mural combines art and science for interactive education
A 5-year-old boy ran, laughing, across the room toward his friends, causing portraits of his classmates’ faces to flash up on the wall. The excited voices of kindergartners quickly filled the room. Read more...
Photo: Noel Enyedy, an associate professor of education, worked with kindergartners at the UCLA Lab School for a new interactive visual teaching system called the Cyber Mural. (Kelsey Kong/Daily Bruin)
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April 7, 2:33 am
UCLA patient celebrates 80th thanks to unlikely procedure
James Manzi was supposed to have an evening of celebration. He was out to dinner with family and friends for their daughter’s birthday, when his wife turned around and saw him slumped over and unconscious in his chair. Read more...
Photo: James Manzi is embraced by his wife Barbara. (Courtesy of James Manzi)
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April 7, 2:21 am
Teams of hackers to fill Pauley for LA Hacks competition
A hackathon will take place in Pauley Pavilion this weekend, bringing together coders from across the country to collaborate and compete in building apps, websites and hardware. Read more...
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April 5, 8:35 pm
Student injured by oven explosion in engineering building
A UCLA student was injured in an explosion while reportedly conducting an experiment in a lab in the Engineering V building Saturday evening, officials said. The student’s face, chest and neck were burned when an oven exploded at about 6:30 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Read more...
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April 1, 12:56 am
Medical tattooing helps patients feel whole again
Laura Albano dipped her hand tool into dark brown ink and applied it to the upper lip of the retired Army captain, covering up the scars from a deep burn he obtained on a tour of duty in Iraq eight years ago. Read more...
Photo: Capt. Jabari White was sitting as a passenger in a vehicle when a bomb detonated, burning 60 percent of his body. He now comes to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center from Washington, D.C. for tattooing to blend the pigmentation on his face. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin staff)