When Danny Bender awoke the morning after undergoing refractive surgery to improve his eyesight, things around him suddenly came into focus.
Author Archives: Heidi Redlitz
UCLA, USC campaign for urban health
While USC-UCLA Global Health Awareness Week seeks to educate a wide pool of students about the plight of global urban communities, it also incites active service from students within the more immediate Los Angeles community.
UCLA study links combined effect of genetics and environment in a person’s disease susceptibility
A recently published UCLA study has identified interactions between genetics and environment that may affect disease susceptibility among individuals.
UCLA works to conserve, not consume
From its five swimming pools to its massive medical center and 419-acre campus, UCLA consumes 2.4 millions gallons of water per day, totalling an expense of $6 million a year, said Tova Lelah, assistant director of Campus and Environmental Planning.
Researchers aim to bring ADHD into focus
With its medication Adderall sometimes abused by students as a means of more focused study, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a chronic condition is misunderstood in the nonprofessional realm.
Hookah proves as dangerous as cigarettes
As the single most preventable cause of death in the United States, tobacco stands as health research’s greatest adversary.
Hereditary genes can raise breast cancer risk
As the No. 1 cancer diagnosis among American women, breast cancer has created a vast web of affected mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers.