An Ashe Center urgent care clinic that opened in spring has received positive feedback from students. Since its opening in late March, the ASAP Clinic has had more than 4,000 visits from students, said June Hu, data and applications manager for the Ashe Center. Registered nurse Jennifer Blank said the Ashe Center opened the ASAP […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Graphic: UCLA study finds health care is predominantly publicly funded
UCLA Health to partner with Los Angeles Lakers for training facility
This post was updated Sept. 1 at 9:25 a.m. UCLA officials announced Wednesday a partnership with the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team that covers in-game health care for players and naming rights to the Lakers’ new training facility. UCLA Health will serve as the exclusive in-game health providers for Lakers’ players. The team’s new training facility […]
Seller of cancer drug developed at UCLA to be bought over
A pharmaceutical company will be purchasing the seller of Xtandi, a cancer treatment developed by UCLA, for $14 billion. Pfizer Inc. announced Monday that it will buy Medivation Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops disease treatments. Medivation sells Xtandi at $129,000 for a year’s supply. The drug has been a lucrative invention for the UC, generating more […]
Graduate students can now take new course on digital records
Graduate students will be able to examine video evidence from body worn cameras in a new course this fall. The UCLA Department of Information Studies’ four-unit seminar, “Special Topics in Information Studies: Archival Practice in the Age of Ubiquitous Surveillance Technologies,” will review policies about audiovisual material and provide training for students pursuing careers in […]
Graphic: UCLA finds Latinos age slower than other ethnicities
Film ‘Lo and Behold’ documents the internet’s beginning at UCLA
When Leonard Kleinrock’s student sent the first internet message from UCLA to Stanford, he said it felt more like a perfunctory job well done rather than a moment that would go down in history. “There was no celebration; we went home that evening and that was it,” Kleinrock said. In a new documentary “Lo and […]