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UCLA Dining named best in the nation | KABC-TV
UCLA has received top marks for its dining program again. This is the seventh time in a row Niche.com has ranked UCLA number one in the country for food. (Also: KNBC-TV, KTLA-TV and Spectrum News 1.)
UC warns cuts could impact entire 10-campus system | Los Angeles Times
In a letter to dozens of lawmakers obtained by The Times, UC President James B. Milliken said the university is facing “one of the gravest threats in UC’s 157-year history” after the Trump administration cut off more than $500 million in grants to UCLA before demanding a $1.2-billion fine over allegations of campus antisemitism.
Health alliance forms to fight misinformation | KCRW 89.9-FM’s “Press Play”
Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, tells KCRW that with national guidance so fractured right now, the alliance will ultimately be helpful. “What we know is that this alliance is being pulled together to be able to restore clarity [and] interest, to have science-based and evidence-based recommendations. What it may or may not mean in terms of vaccine accessibility or vaccine supply, we don’t really know … But the first step is having unified recommendations that are easily accessible to people,” she says. (Also: Rimoin was interviewed by KCAL-TV and UCLA’s Dr. Timothy Brewer was interviewed by LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk.”)
A pill to heal the brain could revolutionize neuroscience | New York Times
Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael, the head of neurology at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, was taught the same thing again and again in his medical training: The brain doesn’t grow back. “Unlike, say, the liver, there is no regenerative capacity,” he recalled being told in the 1990s. “You work with what you’re given.”… Against the advice of his thesis advisers, he set out to discover whether the brain could repair itself. What he learned would astonish the field: After injury, healthy neurons far from the site of damage sprouted new axons, the rootlike tentacles that conduct electrical signals. (UCLA’s Dr. Alcino Silva was cited.)
Psychiatric tools that could boost natural brain healing | New York Times
But those follow-up studies had major flaws, said Dr. Steven Cramer, a neurologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who consults on stroke-recovery therapies. For one, it isn’t enough to simply pour a plasticity-enhancing drug on a healing brain; that plasticity must be directed toward skills you hope to recover. “Whatever magic pixie dust you sprinkle on the injured brain, you’re not going to get maximum benefit unless you pair it with some kind of training,” he said.
Chagas disease carried by the kissing bug spreading across U.S. | KTTV-TV
Health experts believe about 45,000 people in Los Angeles County are already infected and more than 300,000 people in the United States are infected. According to UCLA Health, fewer than 2% of those infected know they carry the parasite spread by the “kissing bug.”… After a person is bitten, they inadvertently scratch and rub the parasite into the wound, which is how it enters the bloodstream, explained Shaun Yang, a professor of clinical microbiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He said left untreated, Chagas disease slowly kills the heart.
The implants were supposed to dissolve. They didn’t | Bloomberg
In 2022, Nimmi Kapoor, a breast surgical oncologist with UCLA Health, attended a company-sponsored course that promoted BioZorb’s cosmetic benefits. She used it a couple times after that, but abandoned it after determining it wasn’t much better than manipulating breast tissue to get the same effect. “It’s not unsurprising to me that it didn’t always absorb,” she said in an interview, comparing the device’s material to a plastic toy.
Trans federal employees say they face fear, discrimination | Associated Press
Brad Sears, senior scholar at UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, which researches policy impacting LGBTQ+ people, points to “a sweeping, government-wide initiative to really erase transgender people from public life,” including adults in the workplace.
Weigh in on the L.A. parks rescue plan | Los Angeles Times
To calculate how to make better use of existing resources, the study used an approach developed in part by UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. The PerSquareMile tool broke the city into tiny grids and identified two dozen park sites where improved facilities could impact the largest number of people, and three dozen sites where conversion of schools and other public spaces into parks would serve hundreds of thousands of people. “It’s the greatest good for the greatest number of people in the most efficient way,” said Jon Christensen, of the UCLA institute.
Giorgio Armani, master of the power suit, dies at 91 | New York Times
“All the women of my generation, including Hillary Clinton, were wearing jeans in the 1960s,” said Deborah Nadoolman Landis, the [UCLA David C. Copley Professor of Costume Design]. “But where do you go from Woodstock? How do you professionalize that look when those women start entering the workforce? You professionalize it by wearing a feminized suit from Armani.”
