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September 25, 10:28 pm

UCLA Health program aims to improve fitness in LA schools

School-affiliated personnel from 11 middle and high schools in Los Angeles County can use newly furnished fitness centers funded by UCLA Health this year. The UCLA Health Sound Body Sound Mind, which promotes childhood health, aims to reduce obesity rates in the Los Angeles Unified School District by funding fitness centers. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Health Sound Body Sound Mind helps schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District build fitness centers and improve their physical education programs through grants up to $50,000. (Courtesy of UCLA Health Sound Body Sound Mind)

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September 22, 9:09 pm

Students intern in Uganda to grow a safer, cleaner environment

Students in a small Ugandan village jumped from their seats to greet Harveen Sekhon every time she entered the classroom. Sekhon, a third-year human biology and society student, taught menstrual hygiene and sanitation practices this summer at Johnson Nkosi Memorial Primary School, where some members of the community are single mothers, orphans and children living with HIV and AIDS. Read more...

Photo: GlobeMed at UCLA helped fund the building of water sources like boreholes in the Nama sub-county in Uganda, providing villagers with clean water access. (Courtesy of GlobeMed at UCLA)

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September 22, 2:35 am

Microprobes expose mysteries of the solar system, origin of life

In 2006, a NASA-owned rocket landed on Earth after a seven-year journey beyond the orbit of Mars. The rocket flew through the tail of a comet, collecting thousands of dust particles for NASA’s Stardust mission. Read more...

Photo: The SIMS lab uses the IMS-1270 ion microprobe to analyze rock samples and study the history of the solar system. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)

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September 16, 2:57 pm

Lab School, UCLA implement new vaccination policy for future Bruins

New vaccination policies will require some UCLA and UCLA Lab School students to get additional shots to continue their education. The new Senate Bill No. 277, or SB 277, enforces a mandatory vaccination requirement for most public and private K-12 facilities in the state, including preschools and day care centers. Read more...

Photo: The new Senate Bill No. 277 enforces a mandatory vaccination requirement for most public and private K-12 facilities in the state, including preschools and day care centers such as the UCLA Lab School. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)

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September 16, 2:53 pm

Volunteers hearten cardiac transplant patients through art, music

Doctors, nurses and visitors bustle past one another under directory signs in the white, marbled lobby of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. But upstairs on the seventh floor, noises settle into a rhythm of beeping heart monitors and murmuring nurses. Read more...

Photo: UCLA cardiologists partnered with Marymount High School students in April 2014 to establish Heal My HeART, an art and music therapy program that helps relieve patients suffering from heart failure and transplant recovery. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)


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