An Ashe Center physician recently completed a training in transgender health education, in an attempt to improve medical services for students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Read more...
Photo: Jay Espejo began training to specialize in transgender care last May and has focused his studies on hormone replacement. He is the first physician from the Ashe Center to be trained in transgender health care. (Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)
A CNN anchor gestured with her right hand, moving it away from the center of her body to the left, as she gave updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during an Ebola crisis in 2014. Read more...
Photo: Francis Steen, alongside several other UCLA statistics and communication studies professors, are using the UCLA Library Broadcast NewsScape video archive to analyze social and political news clips. (Rocio Flores Huaringa/Daily Bruin)
The U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator called for an end to the AIDS epidemic by 2030 in a speech at UCLA Wednesday afternoon. Around 70 professors, students and international delegates attended a speech by Dr. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator for U.S. Global AIDS, said at an event at UCLA on Wednesday that creating partnerships and improving education can help end the AIDS epidemic. (Creative Commons photo by Center for Strategic and International Studies via Youtube)
Dr. Paul Terasaki, a professor emeritus of surgery who worked in the David Geffen School of Medicine, died Monday from kidney disease. He was 86 years old. Read more...
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Six undergraduate students were selected Thursday as finalists in a campuswide challenge that encourages students to develop solutions to global problems. UCLA and XPRIZE, a nonprofit organization that facilitates competitions, launched the FuturizeX Student Challenge, which is open to undergraduate students. Read more...
A UCLA School of Nursing study concluded that a protein buildup in the brain’s synapses impairs memory recall and development, and may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease. Read more...
Jorge Sincuir donated blood 27 times as a UCLA student, but never fully understood his impact as a donor until he needed a transfusion himself. Last Wednesday, Sincuir met three donors who helped save his life at a UCLA Blood and Platelet Center event organized to honor frequent donors. Read more...
Photo: Jorge Sincuir, a UCLA alum who was in a car accident, received 27 blood donations after being a frequent donor at UCLA. (Meghan Hodges/Daily Bruin)
