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Doctor’s journey reinforces life-saving power of mammograms | KABC-TV
Being a breast cancer surgeon is a rewarding path. UCLA’s Dr. Carlie Thompson says walking alongside her patients is a privilege. “It’s always fed my soul. Always,” she said. Mammograms have always been her mantra. Last summer, at 41, she had her first breast cancer screening. What the scan revealed changed everything.
Hurricane Melissa strengthens to a Category 5 | CNN
“Its forward-moving motion is only about three miles per hour. That’s going to bring with those wind bands, the precipitation. That’s going to be long-lived as that storm continues to stall and just move very slowly,” said UCLA’s Janine Baijnath-Rodino.
Eaton rebuild will take much more than willpower | Los Angeles Daily News
A recent study by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute analyzed the first seven months after the fire and found that one in four homeowners remain stuck mid-application, unable to advance to the next phase of rebuilding. The study identified financial constraints as the biggest obstacle.
For some Black women, the James case feels familiar | New York Times
Jasmine Hill, an assistant professor of public policy and sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that the practice emerges partly out of basic need. Black middle-class adults are significantly more likely than their white peers to have a sibling who is poor, research shows.
DOJ sending election monitors to states’ voting sites | The Hill
Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a social media post that the DOJ’s move is a “test run for 2026.” (Hasen was also featured by MSNBC – approx. 1:25 mark).
AI likely to muddy reach of video privacy protection law | Bloomberg Law
The Second Circuit’s ruling potentially ignores what an ordinary person, trying to discern someone’s personal interests, might do with coded information, said Andrew Selbst, a professor at the UCLA School of Law. The appeals court therefore fails to give sufficient weight to the privacy concern, he said.
Prop. 36 puts treatment burden on defendants | San Diego Union-Tribune
“With SACPA, I think things were much more organized and better funded, but still, it took time,” said Darren Urada, a UCLA researcher who evaluated the law. “Show rates and treatment completion rates gradually increased as everyone figured out what to do, and this continued until funding went away.”
Is it time for your flu shot? What to know about how long it lasts | NBC News
“Really, these are extremely safe vaccines,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, a professor at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. “There’s nothing people need to be alarmed about.”
How to master the lost art of flirting | The Guardian
Clinical psychologist and UCLA professor Dr Elizabeth Laugeson says: “There is some evidence that young adults today are … engaging in less traditional dating behavior, compared to previous generations.”
