A handful of celebrities will be bagging groceries and whipping up free sample foods at the new Westwood Whole Foods Market this Wednesday. The celebrities are participating in a charity event which will send 5 percent of Wednesday’s sales to UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital. Read more...

If there was ever a medical dictionary of bad words, it would have to include the word “Surgery”. Last week, I found myself thinking constantly about the S-word. Read more...

With the help of my neighborhood GNC Nutrition Superstore, I have devised a plan to live forever. It’s simple, really. All I need to do is to eat garlic to prevent heart disease, and have a little folic acid and selenium to keep the cancer at bay. Read more...

Monday marked the official opening for the new Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA. The joint partnership between UCLA and NASA aims to develop a “lab on a chip,” which would carry out the same complex functions of a full-sized scientific lab on a tiny chip. Read more...

Vinh Lam, a fourth-year economics student works out up to three hours a day, six days a week. His exercise regimen is divided between weight lifting, cardio and ab exercises. Read more...

Internet study finds increased household usage The Internet ranks as the most widely-used information source, higher than all other media including television and newspapers according to Year Three of the UCLA Internet Report. Read more...

Do you have more than five registered e-mail addresses? How about more than three AIM screen names? Does the acronym “DC” remind you of a steady flow of current instead of our nation’s capital? Read more...