Abandoning his car in his driveway, Jeffrey Nerdin dusted off his bike and joined the realm of eco-friendly commuters ““ biking 10 miles uphill from his house in Encino to his job on UCLA’s campus.
Category Archives: Science & Health
Ashe About Your Health: _Misconceptions about the flu should not deter students from getting influenza vaccines_
Have you ever had the flu? I mean the real flu. Influenza. I’m not talking about a few days of aches, fever, sore throat, cough and stuffy nose we all get once in a while.
An undergraduate’s medical pursuit leads from Iraq to UCLA
It was in the middle of the Iraq War in 2007.
Ashe about your health: Column will answer student-submitted questions about health
I am Dr. David Baron, the new executive director of the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center.
UCLA alum’s study finds excessive traffic noise can negatively impact health
Her phone was ringing in her pocket and a man behind her was asking for directions, but Mandy Hoskinson could not hear any of it.
UCLA Health System partners with CVS MinuteClinics to offer quick, affordable services
Under a partnership finalized this month, UCLA physicians will serve as medical directors to oversee UCLA Health System MinuteClinics run out of CVS stores in Los Angeles County.
Medical centers trying to reduce risk of hospital-acquired infections
Each year millions of patients check into hospitals for treatment and instead get a completely different medical condition than they came in with ““ a hospital-acquired infection.