This post was updated on Sept. 18 at 5:40 p.m. International pre-health students can now gain experience working in a U.S. hospital through a program launched this summer. Read more...
Photo: The International Health Scholar program, a partnership between COPE Health Solutions and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, allows international students to get clinical experience in the U.S. (Courtesy of Tisa Thomas)
An Ashe Center urgent care clinic that opened in spring has received positive feedback from students. Since its opening in late March, the ASAP Clinic has had more than 4,000 visits from students, said June Hu, data and applications manager for the Ashe Center. Read more...
Photo: The ASAP Clinic is a walk-in urgent care health clinic on the third floor of the Ashe Center. It opened due to complaints of overcrowding from Ashe Center patients.(Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
This post was updated Sept. 1 at 9:25 a.m. UCLA officials announced Wednesday a partnership with the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team that covers in-game health care for players and naming rights to the Lakers’ new training facility. Read more...
Photo: John Mazziotta, vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and CEO of UCLA Health, called the partnership between the Los Angeles Lakers and UCLA Health an opportunity to promote health and fitness. UCLA Health will serve as the exclusive provider of in-game health care for Lakers players and will also name the team’s training center. (Courtesy of UCLA Health)
A pharmaceutical company will be purchasing the seller of Xtandi, a cancer treatment developed by UCLA, for $14 billion. Pfizer Inc. announced Monday that it will buy Medivation Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops disease treatments. Read more...
Graduate students will be able to examine video evidence from body worn cameras in a new course this fall. The UCLA Department of Information Studies’ four-unit seminar, “Special Topics in Information Studies: Archival Practice in the Age of Ubiquitous Surveillance Technologies,” will review policies about audiovisual material and provide training for students pursuing careers in film management, said Jean-François Blanchette, an associate professor in the Department of Information Studies. Read more...
Photo: The four-unit seminar “Management of Digital Records” offered this fall will allow UCLA graduate students to examine video evidence from body worn cameras. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
