UCLA Health is giving monoclonal antibody treatments to some patients that are in the early stages of their COVID-19 infection. Monoclonal antibody treatments give people who are at high risk for complications from COVID-19 a reduced chance of hospitalization, said Tara Vijayan, an assistant professor of medicine. Read more...
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A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles on Wednesday morning. The quake originated around 15 miles from the UCLA campus in South Los Angeles at 8:31 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey. Read more...
UCLA must pay James Heaps’ former patients around $73 million and reform its clinical sexual misconduct procedures. A federal judge preliminarily approved a class action settlement Jan. Read more...
Photo: The United States District Court ordered UCLA on Jan. 11 to pay James Heaps’ former patients around $73 million in settlements. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 5:12 p.m. UCLA plans to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to some faculty and staff within the next few weeks, university administrators announced at a town hall Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Some faculty might be able to receive COVID-19 vaccines from UCLA by as early as February, UCLA administrators announced at a Thursday town hall. (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 6:24 p.m. A new COVID-19 strain could already be present in Los Angeles County, and its higher transmissibility rate could be contributing to an early-year surge of COVID-19 cases, UCLA professors said. Read more...
Photo: Health experts say that the new variant of COVID-19, which is more contagious, could already exist in LA County. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
A local neighborhood council held a budget town hall Saturday to discuss the city of Los Angeles’ budget and encourage LA residents to get involved in the city’s budgeting process. Read more...
Photo: Members of local neighborhood councils hosted a town hall Saturday in an effort to increase resident participation in LA city’s budgeting process. (Screen capture by Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin staff)
Los Angeles County is attempting to manage a health care system near full capacity while the COVID-19 case count continues to surge at an unprecedented rate. Read more...
Photo: LA County officials are dealing with the worst COVID-19 surge they have seen since the beginning of the pandemic. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
