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This breakthrough drug may be the ultimate baldness cure | Men’s Health
That’s because unlike existing treatments like minoxidil and finasteride, which merely slow down hair loss, PP405 sparks new hair growth. “PP405 wakes up dormant hair follicles, so the mechanism is very different,” says Heather Christofk, a biochemist at UCLA, whose lab helped develop the molecule. Their work is published in the journal Nature Cell Biology.
A tour of the sound and heat hellscape that is L.A. | Los Angeles Times
UCLA brain scientists, health equity advocates and L.A. nonprofit Esperanza Housing are teaming up to study the combined effect of noise pollution and excessive heat on the brain health and behavior of South L.A. residents. (UCLA’s Valerie Tornini, Nick Shapiro and Helena Hansen were quoted.)
Is troop buildup in U.S. cities a declaration of war? | Los Angeles Times
Daniel Treisman, a professor of political science at UCLA, said Trump is “the most extreme case yet of a leader who comes to power in a long-established democracy and wants to act like an authoritarian — to break down all restrictions on his power and intimidate his enemies.”
High school students continue to lose ground in scroes | Los Angeles Times
The dip in reading scores appeared alongside a shift in how English and language arts are taught in schools, with an emphasis on short texts and book excerpts, said Carol Jago, associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA. As a high school English teacher 20 years ago, Jago said it was common for her high school students to read 20 books over the course of a year. Now, some English classes are assigning just three books a year.
Dementia care programs show promise | Medical Xpress
A new analysis comparing different dementia care approaches found that caregivers of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias reported greater satisfaction with care provided through either of two comprehensive dementia care programs, compared with routine (usual) care, over an 18-month period … “These findings give us a closer look at what matters most to families,” said Dr. David Reuben, the Archstone Professor of Geriatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and principal investigator of the D-CARE study.
This change might have spiked prostate cancer | LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk”
“For those of us who spend a lot of time taking care of patients and doing research in this space, it was somewhat predictable and not surprising,” said UCLA’s Dr. Scott Eggener (approx. 9:05 mark).
Will the lost settlement of Maronberg soon be found? | Popular Mechanics
In August of 2025, contemporary St. Croix acquired more than 2,000 acres of land to serve as the U.S. Virgin Islands Maroon Territorial Park in commemoration, but no one has yet been able to locate any physical remnants of the Maronberg community itself. However, Justin Dunnavant — an assistant professor of anthropology at UCLA — believes that modern technology, including “advanced computer modeling and high-resolution maps,” can finally find artifacts from the secluded community that formed 300 years ago.
‘Eugenics’ comes out of the shadows in recent rhetoric | Los Angeles Times
“Many eugenic ideas that may have been under the surface for a while are back with a vengeance,” says Alexandra Minna Stern, a professor of English and history at UCLA who is one of our leading historians of the eugenics movement.
Santa Monica faces budget shortfall | KCAL-TV
“It wasn’t that long ago that the state legislature extended the statute of limitations to give women an opportunity to go back a little bit more in time to get redress for their damages,” [said UCLA’s Zev Yaroslavsky — approx. 1:25 mark].
New York attorney general to intervene in abortion lawsuit | NBC News
Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C., have shield laws that offer some degree of protection for reproductive care, according to UCLA Law’s Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy. And eight states — including New York, California, Colorado and Maine — have passed laws that specifically protect providers from being sued for prescribing abortion pills virtually to people from other states.
