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California unemployment set to rise | Los Angeles Times

California’s economy has split between higher-growth areas such as Los Angeles benefiting from venture capital spending — and other areas hard hit by tariffs, uncertainty and the government crackdown on immigrant labor. That’s the finding of the winter UCLA Anderson Forecast released Wednesday, which predicts the state’s economy as a whole will muddle through the coming months before growth picks up in the latter half of next year. (UCLA’s Jerry Nickelsburg was quoted. Also: KTLA-TV and KTTV-TV.)

A toxic flood crisis is closing in on our coastlines | Popular Mechanics

Now, in a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley, have detailed another threat as the sea levels continue to climb. Spread among the nearly 100,000 miles of U.S. coastline, 5,500 hazardous sites could face flooding by 2100. (UCLA’s Lara Cushing was quoted.)

Scientists make big strides in fighting antibiotic resistance | The Scientist

In a recent study, researchers wanted to “take advantage of both worlds,” said Damayanti Bagchi, a material chemist who led the work as a postdoctoral researcher in Irene Chen’s laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. For the first time, Bagchi and her colleagues synthesized silver nanoparticles using phages called M13, which they also used as a scaffold for the nanoparticles.  

Menopause and the mental blur | KABC-TV

“It undermines our confidence at work and at home, and that’s not acceptable,” [said UCLA’s Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl.] “The XX factor is what makes women more susceptible to getting MS, Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive issues during menopause.” (approx. :45 mark).  

CDC website links autism and vaccines | KTLA-TV

“What’s happened is the CDC’s website has said very clearly for a very long time that studies have shown no link between vaccines and autism … The website was recently updated. Now it has a statement that vaccines do not cause autism is not evidence based, because studies haven’t ruled out every possible scenario,” said UCLA’s Anne Rimoin.

UCLA scientists will do Eaton burn scar soil testing | KNX-FM

People living near the Eaton burn scar can get their soil tested for toxins this weekend … “So how these events work is folks can sign up online … They can bring a maximum of three soil samples to the event,” said UCLA’s Kirsten Schwarz.

San Francisco sues makers of ultra-processed foods | Los Angeles Times

This has made it more difficult to tie the cause of specific health ailments to certain foods, said Diana Winters, deputy director of the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA. “It’s big because for years, I think people have talked about the idea of going after food companies similar to the way governments and individuals went after tobacco companies, but the worry was that we didn’t have the data to show the causation,” Winters said.

Karate teacher helps kids heal from the Palisades fire | Los Angeles Times

The Palisades fire destroyed an estimated 2,635 businesses in Pacific Palisades, according to researchers at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge. It partially damaged an estimated 656 more.