UCLA officials have known since late January about the link between a “superbug” outbreak and two patient deaths at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, officials said at a press conference outside the hospital Thursday. Patients who underwent procedures using devices called duodenoscopes were found to have symptoms of a superbug infection in mid-December. But […]
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FDA issues warning on medical scopes, possibly linked to superbug cases
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety warning Thursday that the design of a widely used medical scope may prevent it from being effectively sterilized and lead to the transmission of bacteria between patients. The warning comes after officials reported Wednesday that more than 100 patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center were […]
Patients at UCLA hospital potentially exposed to superbug CRE
More than 100 patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have been exposed to a superbug between October and January, according to a statement from the UCLA Health System. The potentially lethal bacteria has infected at least seven of the exposed patients so far, the university said. The bacteria may have been a […]
‘Hackathon on Police Brutality Data’ shows inconsistency in reports
Kim McGill thought analyzing data on police violence was more important than celebrating romance on Valentine’s Day. McGill, co-founder of Youth Justice Coalition and activist in grassroots movements to battle inequities in the police system, worked to do this along with 50 other UCLA students and community members. They gathered at the Hackathon on Police […]
Orthopedic research at UCLA to send rodents to space
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. Dr. Chia Soo turns on a video filled with the faces of injured war veterans. In her office on the edge of South Campus, she talks about the challenges of trying to rebuild […]
UCLA engineers develop flexible, transparent electronic display
Researchers at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science recently developed an elastic, flexible and transparent lighting panel out of organic materials. Organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, run electricity through carbon-based, solid-state polymers to emit light. The process offers advantages over traditional incandescent and fluorescent lighting. OLEDs prove more energy efficient and longer […]
UCLA breast cancer research leads to Ibrance drug FDA approval
Richard Finn transferred to UCLA as an undergraduate freshman from UC San Diego in the late 1970s to be closer to home after his mother died of breast cancer when he was a college freshman. Finn’s mother’s death made him want to go into cancer research. He went to find a research position at Dennis […]