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.
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Grad student, TA Robin Higgins participates in stand-up comedy in between chemistry classes
By day, she studies and teaches chemistry, but by night, Robin Higgins commands the audiences of bars and clubs with her humor.
UCLA offers first facial reconstruction program to patients in West Coast
To aid patients with severe facial abnormalities, the UCLA Health System launched a face transplantation program last week ““ the first in the western United States.
UCLA professor and his team discover ice below the surface of Mercury's poles
Earth has more of it than scientists can explain. And if it exists on nearby planets, it could mean that there are other life forms in solar systems elsewhere in the universe.
Baha’i students share their struggle for education in Iran
The morning after his lonely flight to America from Iran, Omid Yousefian, a graduate of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education, stood in the UCLA admissions office, feeling terrible.
UCLA faculty, students unwind with pick-up soccer games
Every Tuesday and Thursday at noon, the rapid crunch of grass and competitiveness on the North Athletic Field is countered by the occasional soccer player casually leaving for a meeting.
UC campuses to ban smoking by 2014
All University of California facilities will be required to go tobacco-free beginning in 2014, according to a letter UC President Mark Yudof sent to UC chancellors on Monday.
The newly announced ban extends to the sale and advertisement of tobacco on campus.