Her phone was ringing in her pocket and a man behind her was asking for directions, but Mandy Hoskinson could not hear any of it. Read more...
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A study by UCLA alum Alexander Schaffer says commuters who use the Los Angeles train system often can have health problems later in life.
Under a partnership finalized this month, UCLA physicians will serve as medical directors to oversee UCLA Health System MinuteClinics run out of CVS stores in Los Angeles County. Read more...
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State assemblywoman Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) meets with Debbie Palaski, MinuteClinic’s Los Angeles district manager of operations.
Each year millions of patients check into hospitals for treatment and instead get a completely different medical condition than they came in with "“ a hospital-acquired infection. Read more...
New solar cells, which can convert light to energy, are so thin they can be laminated and applied to windows or mobile devices, allowing homes and electronics to produce their own electricity while undergoing almost no change to their aesthetic appearance. Read more...
Parts of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center's intensive care units will soon gleam with a gold shine as plastic keyboards and bed rails are stripped from exam rooms and replaced with copper substitutes for a new medical study. Read more...
Minasian has been volunteering in a lab since winter quarter of last year, doing what she calls "hands-on" work with the lab's researchers, preserving cell cultures and analyzing the effects of knocking out autism-related genes on cells. Read more...
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Julia Minasian, rising fourth-year neuroscience student
The Higgs boson, known commonly as the "God particle," is thought to be responsible for all of the matter in the universe. But physicists only found evidence of its existence last week. Read more...
