The West Nile virus has claimed its first local victim, and Southern Californians are preparing their defenses against a disease that is spreading alarmingly close to home. Last week, officials determined that a 57-year-old Orange County man who died last month was a victim of the West Nile virus ““ making him the first human […]
Author Archives: Jennifer Lauren Lee
15,000 assemble at AIDS conference
An unlikely brew of sex-education workers, scientists, performance artists, politicians and concerned citizens from across the globe flooded the streets of Bangkok, Thailand last week in an effort to combat the AIDS epidemic that is plaguing parts of the world. The occasion was the 15th biennial International AIDS Conference, and it turned Bangkok into a […]
Study: Obese people lack enough of hunger-causing hormone
Scientists at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute have made the unexpected discovery that lean people may have higher levels of a hunger-stimulating hormone than obese people do. According to their research, which was published online last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, people with normal body weight experience had an unexpectedly intense burst […]
Sally Ride to speak at festival
UCLA will welcome the world’s first female astronaut and open its doors to nearly 1,000 girls, boys and parents as the Sally Ride Science Club kicks off its 21st science festival on Sunday. Dr. Sally Ride, who was part of the 1983 and 1984 Challenger expeditions, will present a keynote address and oversee the event […]
UCLA leads clinical trial of promising new stroke drug
The National Institutes of Health awarded the UCLA Stroke Center a $16 million grant earlier this month to be used in the clinical trial of a new treatment for acute strokes. Unlike the standard FDA-approved “clot-busting” drugs, which clear out blocked blood vessels to the brain, the new treatment uses magnesium sulfate to protect brain […]
Bruins forecast weather in national competition
UCLA students in atmospheric sciences are testing their classroom skills in a 26-week national weather forecasting competition that began this past Monday. The National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest involves over 700 students and faculty from more than 30 universities across the country, according to UCLA’s staff meteorologist James Murakami, a member and advisor on the […]
Student outreach group uses waiting room downtime to educate
It is usually hard to get anything useful done in waiting rooms, but a new student-run information center at the UCLA Children’s Health Center is providing parents with an opportunity to learn about child and family health issues while they wait. The Students for Community Outreach, Promotion and Education opened the Child and Family Resource […]