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Father ripped from family as agents target immigration courts | L.A. Times
“Immigration court should be a place where people go to present their claims for relief, have them assessed, get an up or down on whether they can stay and have that done in a way that affords them due process,” said Talia Inlender, deputy director at the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law School. “That is being ripped away sort of at every turn.”
FCC delays multilingual emergency alerts for natural disasters | L.A. Times
A study published earlier this year by UCLA researchers and the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Equity Alliance found that Asian communities in harm’s way during the January L.A. County fires encountered difficulties accessing information about emergency evacuations because of language barriers.
Medical errors still harm patients. AI could help change that. | NBC News
Patient safety advocates have been calling for the implementation of error-preventing AI tools for some time. Dr. Dan Cole, vice chair of the anesthesiology department at UCLA Health and president of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, likened their potential for reducing risk to that of self-driving cars and improving road safety.
Explaining the surge of autism diagnoses among adults | Wall Street Journal
Many are women whose autism was missed when they were children, said Catherine Lord, a clinical psychologist and autism researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. About three times as many boys are diagnosed with autism as girls, partly because some of the behaviors psychologists look for are less pronounced in girls, and partly because researchers have been trained to better recognize the condition in boys.
EV mandate vote felt like attack on California, Democrats say | N.Y. Times
Ann Carlson, who helped write policies for the Biden administration on tailpipe emissions and now teaches law at the University of California, Los Angeles, recalled the severe smog that made her eyes burn and her lungs ache when she was a child in Southern California in the 1960s. (Carlson was also quoted by Rolling Stone.)
What’s best for my pain: Tylenol or Advil? | New York Times
All NSAIDs work similarly, so choose the one that’s most effective for you, said Dr. F. Michael Ferrante, director of the Pain Management Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Certain people — such as those who are pregnant or breastfeeding, are taking blood thinners or have a history of high blood pressure or kidney, liver or heart disease — should avoid NSAIDs (or at least consult a doctor first).
FDA alleges fluoride supplements cause harm. Scientists don’t agree | NPR
Losing access to fluoride in community water and supplements will most affect populations that have the fewest options, says Dr. Princeton Ly, a pediatrician at UCLA Health. “The people who are going to hurt are those who don’t have easy access to a dentist, have different insurance issues, housing issues, economic issues that prevent them from getting regular dental care,” he says.
L.A. repeals oil phaseout law as residents seek health protections | LAist
A 2017 UCLA survey found that Black people were 44% more likely to live near oil and gas wells, Asian communities were 38%, and Latinos 37%, compared with 31% of whites.
5 years after George Floyd’s death, why misinformation persists | PolitiFact
Ramesh Srinivasan, an information studies professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, said social media algorithms don’t allow for nuanced conversations that require detail and context, which are important for productive discussion about what happened in the summer of 2020.
Experts warn GOP bill would decimate access to transgender care | Advocate
A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA underscores the scale of what’s at stake. Drawing on federal health data, the May report finds that approximately 1.8 million LGBTQ+ adults — nearly twice the rate of non-LGBTQ+ adults — rely on Medicaid as their primary source of health insurance. The burden is especially acute among transgender people, more than 185,000 of whom depend on Medicaid. These disparities, the authors note, are driven by intersecting inequalities — including disability, parenting responsibilities and systemic economic disadvantage — that make Medicaid a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable in the LGBTQ+ community.
House committee worries NASA cuts harm planetary defense | Live Science
“It'll help us find the objects, including the dark fraction of the population, which we think is sort of roughly 35 to 40% or so of the population,” Amy Mainzer, principal investigator for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said during the hearing.
Impact of George Floyd’s death on education | KABC-TV
“What’s my role? Am I complicit in not talking about these issues? Can I be a change agent?” asked UCLA professor of education Tyrone Howard (approx. 2:10 mark).
