At first sight, 22 year-old Kimberly Treebs may resemble any average student at UCLA. But there is nothing average about her. Treebs is a fifth-year mechanical engineering student and co-president of the Society of Women Engineers at UCLA. Read more...

With a little help from ancient Far East remedies, the future of medicine in the West is looking sharp. Interest in traditional Chinese medicine and the art of acupuncture has increased dramatically in the last decade. Read more...

Formerly conjoined twins Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez left for Guatemala yesterday after their seven-month stay at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital following separation surgery last August. Read more...

The lump in John Doe’s right testicle wouldn’t go away. He didn’t tell his parents or doctors. He couldn’t tell anybody because it was so embarrassing; he was so ashamed of it. Read more...

Postmenopausal hormone therapy linked to breast cancer Results from the Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions Trial, a study done to examine the effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy, show that women who undergo hormone therapy experience an increase in breast density, one of the risk factors for breast cancer. Read more...

One of the biggest knocks against engineering students is we don’t learn anything in class relevant to daily life. Often times, this is true. But there are exceptions. Read more...

Humans have charted longitude and latitude lines that stretch across the ends of the earth. There remains, however, a final frontier which has yet to be mapped: an extremely complex lump of gray matter known as the human brain. Read more...