Bingen Cortazar takes a leaf, slides it into a small plastic box and holds it in front of his face. He looks at it a moment, then presses a button on the side of the red eyeglass frame-turned-computer. Read more...
Photo: Bingen Cortazar, a graduate student in electrical engineering, uses a Google Glass mobile system he helped develop to measure chlorophyll concentrations in plants. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)
UCLA researchers may have identified a specific protein linked to the cause of Huntington’s disease, a genetic disorder that causes the breakdown of nerve cells and impairs a person’s movement and cognitive abilities. Read more...
When David Lyons went to his doctor to get a fertility test, the doctor asked him what his wife’s job was. Lyons politely corrected him – his husband worked in management consulting. Read more...
Photo: David Lyons, a second-year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine, said his tumultuous childhood was one of the reasons he decided to go into medicine and focus on LGBT youth. (Kelsey Kong/Daily Bruin)
UCLA officials have known since late January about the link between a “superbug” outbreak and two patient deaths at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, officials said at a press conference outside the hospital Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Zachary Rubin, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center’s medical director of clinical epidemiology and infection prevention, spoke at a press conference Thursday about the superbug. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety warning Thursday that the design of a widely used medical scope may prevent it from being effectively sterilized and lead to the transmission of bacteria between patients. Read more...
Photo: More than 100 patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have been exposed to a “superbug” between October and January. (Daily Bruin file photo)
More than 100 patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have been exposed to a superbug between October and January, according to a statement from the UCLA Health System. Read more...
Photo: More than 100 patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have been exposed to a “superbug” between October and January. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Kim McGill thought analyzing data on police violence was more important than celebrating romance on Valentine’s Day. McGill, co-founder of Youth Justice Coalition and activist in grassroots movements to battle inequities in the police system, worked to do this along with 50 other UCLA students and community members. Read more...
Photo: Participants of the Hackathon on Police Brutality Data in Los Angeles County hosted by the UCLA information studies departments discuss strategies on how to begin mining data. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
