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World’s first in-human bladder transplant successful | KNBC-TV
A cancer survivor from West Covina was the recipient of the world’s first in-human bladder transplant this month, thanks to a pair of Los Angeles doctors. Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health teamed up to perform the 8-hour operation at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on May 4. (UCLA’s Dr. Nima Nassiri was quoted.)
Supervisor Hahn unveils two new ‘Mobile Stroke’ units | City News Service
During a news conference, Hahn alongside UCLA Health highlighted the county’s Mobile Stroke Unit program. Since its inception in 2017, physicians travel on a special-equipped ambulance — built with a mobile CT scanner, point-of-care lab tests, telehealth connection with a vascular neurologist and therapies — to rapidly treat residents calling for help. (UCLA’s Dr. May Nour was quoted. Also: KABC-TV and LAist 89.3-FM.)
Loving mothers key to good mental health | The Telegraph
The study, led by the University of California, Los Angeles, looked at children’s experiences of maternal warmth at three years old and how this affected their perceptions of social safety — their view of the world, other people and where they fit in — by the age of 14. (UCLA’s Jenna Alley and George Slavich were quoted. Also: Medical Xpress and Scienmag.)
A warming planet is poised to get even hotter | Los Angeles Times
“As the globe has warmed thus far, the western U.S. has warmed as well, but without increases in precipitation that compensate for the drought- and wildfire-promoting effects of warming,” UCLA professor Park Williams said. Last year, Williams examined 1,200 years of geological records and found that the previous 25 years were probably the driest quarter of a century since the year 800. He sees no reason why that trend won’t continue.
California joins suit to stop Trump cuts to research | Los Angeles Times
Tara Kerin, a project scientist who works in pediatric infectious disease research at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, said that the funding cuts at the National Science Foundation echoed similar ones made at the National Institutes of Health. That, she said, makes her “very nervous about the future of science and research.”
Trump has left the fight against extremist violence to the states | ProPublica
The commission also unveiled results of a study conducted jointly with the state Civil Rights Department and UCLA researchers showing that more than half a million Californians — about 1.6% of the population — said they had experienced hate that was potentially criminal in nature, such as assault or property damage, in the last year.
