U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., released a report on Friday identifying procedural errors in hospitals as one of the leading causes of death in America. The report included approaches hospitals should take to address this concern. That same day, Boxer visited the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center to examine how the university’s medical personnel have […]
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UCLA Health System introduces antibiotic-free meat
The UCLA Health System recently implemented a program to use antibiotic-free meat in an effort to have the hospitals serve healthier food. Thirty percent of the meat university hospitals now use is antibiotic-free as a part of Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Food in Health Care program and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative said Patricia Oliver, […]
LA Hacks gathers about 1,300 participants at UCLA for hackathon
Aspiring web producers and app developers exclaimed as they held their smartphones up to capture the impressive scene of having more than a thousand hackers gathered in one space to spend the next 36 hours innovating and developing new ideas together. About 1,300 people from across the country convened at Pauley Pavilion last weekend for […]
Cyber Mural combines art and science for interactive education
A 5-year-old boy ran, laughing, across the room toward his friends, causing portraits of his classmates’ faces to flash up on the wall. The excited voices of kindergartners quickly filled the room. Amid cries of “I see me,” Noel Enyedy quieted a class of 22 kindergartners at the UCLA Lab School, a school for children […]
UCLA patient celebrates 80th thanks to unlikely procedure
James Manzi was supposed to have an evening of celebration. He was out to dinner with family and friends for their daughter’s birthday, when his wife turned around and saw him slumped over and unconscious in his chair. It would take fast thinking and an unusual procedure to save his life. After an ambulance brought […]
Teams of hackers to fill Pauley for LA Hacks competition
A hackathon will take place in Pauley Pavilion this weekend, bringing together coders from across the country to collaborate and compete in building apps, websites and hardware. LA Hacks aims to increase interest in the technological culture on the West Coast, said Hadar Dor, a fourth-year cognitive science student and the founder of the event, […]
Student injured by oven explosion in engineering building
A UCLA student was injured in an explosion while reportedly conducting an experiment in a lab in the Engineering V building Saturday evening, officials said. The student’s face, chest and neck were burned when an oven exploded at about 6:30 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The student was taken to Ronald Reagan […]