In response to recommendations detailed in a report recently issued to the University of California regarding reform of its willed body programs, the UC Office of the President has created a new systemwide program coordinator in its Health Affairs hierarchy. Read more...

A report reviewing five willed body programs across the University of California system was recently released by Navigant Consulting, Inc., per request of the UC Regents. Read more...

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The mudslides caused by recent torrential rains in Southern California can be attributed in part to historic errors made back when cattle outnumbered unstable hillsides. “Los Angeles developed as a small cow town in the lowlands, and Sunset Boulevard was nothing more than cow trails to the coast,” said Antony Orme, a professor of geography at UCLA. Read more...

The creation of a mandate to carry insurance is the latest idea coming out of Sacramento to remedy the health insurance crisis. Unfortunately, this kind of proposal may not be the right solution. Read more...

“¢bull; President Bush asked his father and Bill Clinton, former political adversaries, to lead the American effort to raise private funds for tsunami relief. The former presidents said they planned to deliver a report to President Bush on March 8. Read more...

Whoever said biological research is cut and dry has not set up pitfall traps to catch lizards in Cameroon or tagged them using tattoos in the Bahamas. Read more...