Opioid drug overdoses now claim almost as many lives each year as car accidents in the U.S. In the last 10 years, opioid-related deaths have nearly tripled and opioid addiction is now regarded as a nationwide epidemic by the Center for Disease Control. Read more...
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A few years ago, paths on campus were littered with cigarettes and the air was not as fresh. The nursing school’s new dean helped change that when she led the effort to make UCLA a tobacco-free campus. Read more...
Photo: Linda Sarna, the new dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, began her career in healthcare as an undergraduate student in nursing at UCLA and later helped ban tobacco on campus. (Esmeralda Lopez/Daily Bruin)
A consultant for a pharmaceutical company falsely claimed to be a UCLA professor in a paper about EpiPen pricing. The American Journal of Medicine published the paper by Leonard Fromer, a former volunteer assistant professor of family medicine, in December that advocated for adding the allergy medication EpiPen to a federal list of preventive medical services. Read more...
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UCLA researchers will help lead a project that will culminate in global policy recommendations to address sexual violence against men and boys. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, a research institute that focuses on sexual orientation and gender identity, will work with the United Nations and other humanitarian groups to carry out the All Survivors Project. Read more...
This post was updated on Dec. 5 at 11:32 a.m. Tony, a robot equipped with mechanical arms that resemble those of a human, glides over to a nearby person holding an empty cup of water. Read more...
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California students will receive a more engineering design-based science education in a few years that will connect experiments more closely with concepts. The California State Board of Education approved in early November a framework that will help teachers implement curricula based on the Next Generation Science Standards. Read more...
Bill Dorfman transformed people’s smiles through dental surgeries when he was featured on the television show “Extreme Makeover.” “What I realized is, when you save a lot of teeth, you save a smile,” Dorfman said. Read more...
Photo: Bill Dorfman, a UCLA alumnus, is a media personality and celebrity cosmetic dentist. He is also involved with LEAP, a nonprofit education foundation that organizes youth leadership programs at UCLA. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)
