Formerly conjoined twins Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez left for Guatemala yesterday after their seven-month stay at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital following separation surgery last August. At a farewell press conference yesterday morning, the twins made an appearance with their parents. Both girls, affectionately called “the dos Maritas,” were dressed in tiaras […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Testicular cancer treatable
The lump in John Doe’s right testicle wouldn’t go away. He didn’t tell his parents or doctors. He couldn’t tell anybody because it was so embarrassing; he was so ashamed of it. For two years, John let the lump grow and still didn’t have the courage to tell anyone. He was only 16 and thought, “˜how can a […]
Just one drink can slow reaction time
According to a recent study, even a single drink of alcohol is enough to impair someone’s ability to reason quickly and detect errors. Volunteers in the study were given drinks and then given a computer test that required quick thinking and instinctive reasoning. Even after a single drink, changes in brain action were quickly detected. […]
Engineering class takes the gamble out of Nevada casinos
One of the biggest knocks against engineering students is we don’t learn anything in class relevant to daily life. Often times, this is true. But there are exceptions. Last quarter, I was enrolled in “Electrical Engineering 131A: Probability.” The scope of the class covers the probability and random processes for electrical engineering. Yawn. But don’t […]
UCLA scientists working to map brain country
Humans have charted longitude and latitude lines that stretch across the ends of the earth. There remains, however, a final frontier which has yet to be mapped: an extremely complex lump of gray matter known as the human brain. The UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center and the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at UCLA have been […]
Briefs
Two UCLA researchers cleared in investigation The UCLA Office for Protection of Research Subjects cleared two UCLA researchers last month in connection with controversial malariotherapy HIV research being conducted in China by the Heimlich Institute. Steven Peckman, associate director of Human Research Subjects for the OPRS at UCLA, told the Daily Bruin last month that […]