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With DEI rollbacks, the business of Hollywood may take a hit | TheWrap
“It’s a horrible business decision and certainly not the right thing to do,” Darnell Hunt, UCLA’s executive vice chancellor and provost, told TheWrap. “It’s very unfortunate, and of course it is a reflection of what the current administration is trying to do, rolling back decades of progress we made on the inclusion and diversity front for Hollywood in particular,” Hunt, who co-founded the university’s annual Hollywood Diversity Report, continued.
UCLA Anderson Forecast issues a recession watch | Los Angeles Times
A newly released analysis of the Trump administration’s economic policies leads the UCLA Anderson Forecast to issue a recession watch, according to a recent press release. While there are no signs of a recession happening yet, it is entirely possible that one could form in the near term. Authored by UCLA Anderson Forecast economist Clement Bohr, the study delineates the factors that led to this watch. (Also: U.S. News & World Report, KTLA-TV and KCRW 89.9-FM.)
How one UCLA ICU helps patients, staff live with dying | Los Angeles Times
Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The sick rise from bed with new hearts and lungs. Machines valiantly take over for faltering kidneys, heart valves, bronchial tubes. All patients enter with grave health concerns, and the vast majority leave recovered, or at least on the road to healing. (UCLA’s Mojca Nemanic, Lindsay Brant, Katrine Murray and Quentin Wetherholt were quoted.)
Experimental treatment shows promise for this pediatric cancer | NBC News
(Article co-written by UCLA’s Dr. Akshay Syal) Gavin Nielsen was 2 years old when he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain cancer. The smiley toddler had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a cancer that occurs in the part of the brain stem that controls vital functions including breathing, blood pressure and heart rate. Very few treatment options exist, and the prognosis for children diagnosed with the disease is, on average, less than one year.
Each additional hour of daily screen time ups risk of vision issues | Health
This study found a strong correlation between screen time and nearsightedness, and there are several other studies out there that have found the same thing, explained Dr. Victoria Tseng, the Jerome and Joan Snyder Professor in Ophthalmology and residency program director at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. However, she said, the mechanism behind this relationship hasn’t been fully explained. More research needs to be done.
