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UCLA, USC do world’s first-in-human bladder transplant | Los Angeles Times
Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health have performed the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. The surgery was successfully completed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center earlier this month in a joint effort by Dr. Inderbir Gill, founding executive director of USC Urology, and Dr. Nima Nassiri, urologic transplant surgeon and director of the UCLA Vascularized Composite Bladder Allograft Transplant Program. (Nassiri was quoted.)
Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated | Grist
“There’s a lot of enthusiasm and momentum for doing this kind of work, and we’re not going to just let that go,” said [V. Kelly] Turner, who’s also associate director of heat research at the Luskin Center for Innovation at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We’re going to continue to interface with [communities], it’s just going to be incredibly scaled down.”
New COVID strain amid vaccine recommendation shift | Spectrum News 1
That rise in cases isn’t out of left field, according to Dr. Anne Rimoin. “If we look at previous trends, we can expect that there’s going to be an uptick in COVID-19 cases between now and the beginning of September,” said Rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. “We haven’t seen COVID settle completely into a predictable pattern, as many respiratory pathogens do. But if we look at the past four summers, we’ve seen a very distinct spike in cases, and so I think that it’s very likely that we’ll see these upward trends occur.” (Rimoin was also quoted about mpox in Science.)
The cities in the crosshairs of immigration standoff | Bay Area News Group
“Court challenges take time and money and resources,” said Amada Armenta, a UCLA sociologist who researches immigration and criminal justice. “Some localities may comply because they are afraid.”
Sports betting addictions on the rise | USA Today
“In the last seven years, we’ve had expansion of gambling and sports betting to the point where it’s not only just normalized, but it’s embedded in everything we do in American culture,” says Dr. Timothy Fong, co-director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program. Young people are “growing up thinking that sports entertainment is gambling.”
Your morning cup of coffee has more perks than you think | Well + Good
But research generally suggests that black coffee is best, says Dr. Zhaoping Li, chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “The benefit is much more obvious if you drink black coffee — not consuming sugar and fats with it,” she says.
