For some, the word “exercise” conjures up visions of Suzanne Sommers stretching in leg warmers, or of Richard Simmons prancing around in lycra. So it’s no wonder why people don’t exercise and instead sit on their couches and read this column. There are also those students who slave away on the treadmills inside the John […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
HBO series documents AIDS pandemic in five countries
In the hills of Thailand, 23 Buddhist monks are working around the clock to treat patients who are dying of AIDS. Twenty of these monks have contracted AIDS themselves in the process ““ but there isn’t anyone else but them to care for the sick. Because of the great fear of contracting AIDS, and the […]
Hearing loss does not stop medical student
In the first row of a UCLA medical school lecture hall, second-year Nghi Lu takes notes attentively. Her eyes shift between her professor and the slides he projects on the screen. At either side of Lu sit two women trained as court stenographers. Before her are two small laptop-sized screens. Typed words appear rapidly on […]
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UCLA professor elected to national science academy UCLA Electrical Engineering Professor Eli Yablonovitch was elected to the National Academy of Sciences on April 29. This is the first time a professor from UCLA’s engineering school has become a member of the prestigious academy. Earlier this year, Yablonovitch was one of three UCLA engineering professors to […]
Your Health: Diets not as effective as regular exercise
Want to lose weight? It is better to lose it all at once, right? Wrong. The human body is far too concerned about survival to allow us to lose weight too quickly. So as soon as we reduce our calorie intake, our metabolism slows down to conserve energy. Not only is it more difficult, but […]
Professor suggests basin as solution for polluted runoff
Rainstorms are the Pacific Ocean’s worst enemy ““ thousands of pounds of pollutants are washed into the Pacific Ocean when it rains in Los Angeles. The rainwater that falls from our rooftops and cars runs onto city streets and is eventually collected into stormdrains. The stormwater then finds its way to the ocean through a […]
Researchers work to organize Phenome Project
Scientists worked furiously in the five years it took to map the Human Genome. Fueled by technological advances and competitive debates, the study of human genes reached unparalleled heights. But once the genome project was complete and the excitement settled down, many scientists began to question how they would apply the new information to the […]