Costing California taxpayers an estimated $1.4 billion annually, providing medical care for undocumented immigrants in California has become a key issue in the debate over immigration reform. California has more undocumented immigrants than any other state, with an estimated undocumented population of 2.2 million in 2000, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Services. Latinos make […]
Author Archives: Shauntel Lowe
Institute puts spin on science
The recent launch of a new nanoelectronics institute at UCLA marks the beginning of one of the world’s largest joint-research programs dealing with the emerging field of spintronics, in which researchers hope to find ways to make everyday electronics require significantly less power to operate. The institute, called the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics, is to […]
SCIENCE&HEALTH: Scientists investigate memory processes
As finals approach, many students are trying to find the most effective ways to study, evaluating what worked and did not work in the past. Appropriately enough, researchers at UC Irvine and University College London are examining which environmental factors best prepare the mind to learn new information as part of a new study on […]
Patients find healing through art
Breaking into tears, she explained how the partially obscured red tissue-paper heart symbolized how the love between her and her brother in the Philippines had been pushed into the background. White tissue paper, colored blue to represent the oceans between the U.S. and the Philippines, covered half the heart. But she said it was the […]
SCIENCE&HEALTH: Finding the safest way to a child’s heart
The days of performing open-heart surgery to replace defective heart valves may soon be coming to a close, thanks to the ongoing development of a transcatheter collapsible heart valve by UCLA researchers. The new valve may one day enable researchers to insert a catheter into the groin area of the patient and channel the valve […]
SCIENCE&HEALTH: UCLA researcher delves into sexual stereotypes
Standing in a hotel lobby waiting for her husband, she ““ a mother of two, wife, published author and well-known researcher ““ was mistaken for a prostitute. It wasn’t that she had on revealing clothing or said anything that could be misconstrued as a sexual offer of any kind. Gail Wyatt says it was color […]
SCIENCE&HEALTH: Study finds Latina health care lacking
The sexual and reproductive health needs of Latinas are not being adequately addressed by researchers, leaving Latinas less informed about health issues than women of other races, according to a new report. Released by The Allan Guttmacher Institute and Latino Issues Forum, the report is a compilation of national data on these issues. Jennifer Frost, […]