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Officials should help rebuild fire-safe neighborhoods | City News Service

The independent commission launched in February by Supervisor Lindsey Horvath and UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk suggests methods for immediate recovery and longer-term strategies to rebuild physical and social infrastructure, improve insurance systems, promote resiliency and advance efforts to deal with the effects of climate change over the long term in fire-damaged areas.

Will ICE raid roundups will stymie rebuilding efforts? | Los Angeles Times

A new report by the UCLA Anderson Forecast said that roundups could hamstring the colossal undertaking to reconstruct the 13,000 homes that were wiped away in Altadena and Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7 — and exacerbate the housing crisis by stymieing new construction statewide. (UCLA’s Jerry Nickelsburg was quoted.)

U.S. attacks Iran nuclear sites | KNBC-TV

“One of the most important things to consider now is: what was the impact of the bombs dropped by the United States over the weekend? It does not appear, contrary to President Trump’s initial statements, that the bunker buster bombs that were dropped by the B-2 bombers in fact destroyed the entirety of Iran’s nuclear program,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd. (Radd was also interviewed by Spectrum News 1 and UCLA’s James Gelvin was interviewed by KCAL-TV – approx. 1:40 mark).

LGBTQ+ youth-focused suicide prevention line to end | Washington Post

“In my experience as a nurse working with youth and adults who have attempted suicide, tailored services can make a difference in a person’s mental health,” Kristen Choi, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and health services researcher at UCLA, wrote in an email, adding that LGBTQ youths “experience significant barriers to accessing mental health care.”

What to know about this new HIV prevention shot | Washington Post

“Anyone who is likely to be exposed to HIV through sexual contact, who is interested in subcutaneously injected medications and who does not have HIV” can take Yeztugo, said Dr. Raphael Landovitz, director of the UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education.

People with severe diabetes cured in trial of new drug | New York Times

Dr. Peter Butler, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a consultant to Vertex, said he was awed by the achievement of the Harvard team. “The fact that it worked at all is just freaking amazing to me,” he said. “I can guarantee there were a thousand negative experiments for every positive one.”

The monthly tab for her in-home elder care: $18,000 | Los Angeles Times

But there are no easy or inexpensive solutions, according to Irving and to UCLA professor emeritus Fernando Torres-Gil, who also appears in “Caregiving” and says that when he’s asked for advice on elder care, he has a two-word response: “You’re screwed.”

Podcast explores impact of tourism on communities | National Public Radio

Marilyn Raphael is a scientist at UCLA. She studies climate change in the Antarctic region there, and she first visited back in 2011 for part of her research. But one of the most interesting things about this is that Marilyn actually doesn’t go back … as much as she loved it, as life-altering as the experience of going to Antarctica was for her, she actually does her research from home looking at satellite data because she just feels like it’s too fragile of a place to keep going back to, and she’s a person who really has reason to go for her work.

How to stay cool in the heat wave | Associated Press

If your state has work rules, try to learn them — though there are still challenges to ensuring regulations are actually enforced, said Bharat Venkat, director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Heat Lab. He notes that sometimes shaded areas are too far for workers to take breaks without losing wages, or that management can make it impossible for workers to advocate for themselves. “Most workers don’t actually have control over their time or control over where they work,” he said.

Feeling betrayed by a family member? Here’s how to cope | Washington Post

Social rejection by someone close to you can feel as acute as physical pain. If you felt as though your heart broke, or you’d been punched in the gut, that’s because social rejection and physical pain share the same neural circuitry in the brain, according to research by Naomi Eisenberger, a professor of social psychology at UCLA.