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Reclassifying cannabis could 'open the floodgates' for research | NBC News
Despite working in a cannabis-friendly state, Ziva Cooper, director of the Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids at UCLA, said she faces the same research hurdles as her peers in states such as Idaho, where no marijuana use is permitted whatsoever. “Researchers cannot test what is readily available to the market, just basic questions about what is in those products that are available in the dispensary I can see outside of my laboratory window, for example,” Cooper said.
Inside the deportation machine | New York Times
The data, which includes every arrest, detention stay and deportation conducted by ICE, was obtained through a lawsuit and made available by the Deportation Data Project [a collaboration that includes UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy and UCLA’s Graeme Blair]. It shows in great detail the impacts of Trump’s policies, including which communities have been most affected and the sometimes complicated paths people must travel as the government tries to remove them.
Men’s brains may age faster than women’s, study suggests | BBC
Professor Rhonda Voskuhl, a neurologist at UCLA, told BBC Science Focus that, in future, menopausal women might be able to reduce their Alzheimer’s risk with treatments counterbalancing the effects of Kdm6a and estrogen loss. “This two-pronged approach to mitigate a sex chromosome effect and boost a sex hormone effect may be the ideal solution for women,” she said.
Representation of women, people of color scaling back in Hollywood | KNX
“Unfortunately, it’s an industry that really has an effect on society because of the way that it's consumed … since we've been studying this issue, we have seen changes, but you can see how delicate the process is and how it can easily be rolled back,” says Ana-Christina Ramón, co-founder of the Hollywood Diversity Report and director of UCLA’s Entertainment and Media Research Initiative.
Wildland firefighters open to using respirators | Spectrum News 1
UCLA researchers say the firefighters are aware of the health hazards and want protection to breathe, but have concerns on how respirators might impact their ability to perform their jobs safely.
California counties unsure how they'll pay for uninsured | KFF Health News
“This is the moment where a lot of hard decisions have to be made about who gets care and who doesn’t,” said Nadereh Pourat, director of the Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program at UCLA. “The number of people who are going to lose coverage is large, and a lot of the systems that were in place to provide care to those individuals have either gone away or diminished.”
AI data centers are forcing ‘peaker’ power plants back into service | Reuters
“If you were a redlined neighborhood, you were more likely to have a fossil fuel power plant built nearby, and we saw that relationship was even stronger for peaker plants,” said UCLA professor of environmental health sciences Lara Cushing, who led a 2022 study of formerly “redlined” U.S. communities.
