At first sight, 22 year-old Kimberly Treebs may resemble any average student at UCLA. But there is nothing average about her. Treebs is a fifth-year mechanical engineering student and co-president of the Society of Women Engineers at UCLA. Read more...

With a little help from ancient Far East remedies, the future of medicine in the West is looking sharp. Interest in traditional Chinese medicine and the art of acupuncture has increased dramatically in the last decade. Read more...

The lump in John Doe’s right testicle wouldn’t go away. He didn’t tell his parents or doctors. He couldn’t tell anybody because it was so embarrassing; he was so ashamed of it. Read more...

Postmenopausal hormone therapy linked to breast cancer Results from the Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions Trial, a study done to examine the effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy, show that women who undergo hormone therapy experience an increase in breast density, one of the risk factors for breast cancer. Read more...

Formerly conjoined twins Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez left for Guatemala yesterday after their seven-month stay at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital following separation surgery last August. Read more...

Two UCLA researchers cleared in investigation The UCLA Office for Protection of Research Subjects cleared two UCLA researchers last month in connection with controversial malariotherapy HIV research being conducted in China by the Heimlich Institute. Read more...

According to a recent study, even a single drink of alcohol is enough to impair someone’s ability to reason quickly and detect errors. Volunteers in the study were given drinks and then given a computer test that required quick thinking and instinctive reasoning. Read more...