UCLA doctors were awarded a three-year, $2.5 million grant last month to launch a new geriatric care and training program in conjunction with UC Riverside School of Medicine. The grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration will fund the Program for Improving Care of Aging adults through Training and Education, or PICATE, a program […]
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UCLA Health faces lawsuit for privacy breach in recent cyber attack
A Los Angeles man filed a class action lawsuit against UCLA Health, alleging the health care provider did not adequately store private medical information of about 4.5 million patients during the recent cyber attack, a law firm announced Tuesday. Miguel Ortiz filed the complaint against UCLA Health, UCLA Medical Sciences and University of California Board […]
Theatre of the Oppressed program engages students in dialogue
The young man excels at his work, but he hides a secret that could turn others against him: he lives in the favelas, or urban slums, of a city in Brazil. One day, his colleagues discover he lives in the poor slum Mare. Suddenly, he faces discrimination and prejudice from those around him. Contorting his […]
Top environmental scientist joins UCLA to direct institute
Prominent conservation researcher and scientist Peter Kareiva, who has played roles in developing worldwide conservation programs, is the director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability effective immediately, officials announced Monday. “We were looking for someone who is a top-notch scholar and researcher, who is a great leader and Peter is both of […]
UCLA research center receives $7.4M for gene therapy clinical trials
Officials from a California medical institute unanimously voted Thursday to award $7.4 million to a UCLA center to fund therapy clinical trials for a cure to X-linked chronic granulomatous disease. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine voted unanimously for the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research to receive […]
UCLA researchers discover experimental therapy to treat colon cancer
UCLA scientists discovered an experimental form of therapy with the ability to suppress the development of colon cancer, officials announced Friday. Scientists from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center discovered that patients with ulcerative colitis, who have a higher chance of developing a colon cancer, have high levels of microRNA-214. The researchers are hopeful that a […]
UCLA hospital to test new cleaning system after superbug outbreak
Doctors at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center will be the first to test a new cleaning system for a medical device in the wake of a superbug outbreak late 2014, officials announced on Monday. Due to insufficiently cleaned duodenoscopes, a strain of bacteria, or superbug, resulted in the death of two patients and infected […]