Purple peaks on a virtual graph track Patricia Ganz’s daily exercise levels, rising and falling with the steps her iPhone sensor records each day. But Ganz’s new app isn’t just a pedometer; it allows female Apple users across the United States to log their daily mood swings and sleep habits as part of a mobile-driven […]
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UC student health center doctors to hold second strike
Doctors at the University of California student health centers will go on their second strike in three months starting Thursday, claiming the UC has not provided the financial information that the union needs. Doctors at the UCLA student health center – as well as at UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine and UC San Diego – […]
UCLA students unable to recognize and reproduce the Apple logo
UCLA psychologists found that out of 85 UCLA students, only one could correctly reproduce the Apple logo when asked to draw it. Less than half of these students could identify the logo when shown it, leading the psychologists to conclude that our brains have led us to not remember specific details. Researchers found that it […]
UCLA professor combines expertise in public health, bioterrorism
Peter Katona spends his spare time giving talks on biological weapons and terrorism across the country. Otherwise, he can be found doing clinical rounds in the halls of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Katona, a clinical professor of medicine, works as an infectious disease practitioner and approaches public health projects in terrorism from the […]
Health agency report indicates scope cleaning guidelines insufficient
A Seattle health agency warned Monday that the scopes that caused a superbug outbreak at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have caused even more infections than those currently known. “We suspect endoscope-associated transmission of pathogenic bacteria might be both more common than recognized and not adequately prevented by current endoscope reprocessing guidelines,” the […]
Olympus issues new scope cleaning guidelines after superbug outbreak
The manufacturer of medical scopes linked to last month’s superbug outbreak at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center released new cleaning guidelines for its scopes Thursday. At the UCLA and Cedars-Sinai medical centers, the superbug spread among patients from contaminated duodenoscopes made by Olympus Corp. of the Americas even after hospitals said they followed the […]
The Bruin Experiment fosters passion for science at underserved schools
Twelve-year-old William Trimble listed off coding languages that he learned himself as other students tested their experiments around the classroom. Some were rubbing balloons on their heads to test for electricity and others were building solar ovens to make s’mores. “And now I want to learn how to code in Python,” Trimble said with a […]