This post was updated May 20 at 10:49 a.m. May is national stroke awareness month. Dr. Jeffrey Saver, a vascular neurologist at UCLA Health, discussed the basics of stroke prevention, treatment and awareness with Daily Bruin contributor Owen Mazzola. Read more...
Photo: (Ingrid Leng/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated May 20 at 10:52 a.m. Flea borne typhus cases in Los Angeles County have reached an all-time high, according to an April report by LA County public health officials. Read more...
Photo: The David Geffen School of Medicine is pictured. Experts from the School of Medicine discuss possible causes and prevention techniques for the rise in typhus cases. (Crystal Tompkins/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A UCLA student who amassed more than 300,000 followers on social media by sharing his experience as a Latino and first-generation Bruin in medicine spoke at an on-campus event May 8. Read more...
Photo: The De Neve residence halls, where the Latinx Success Center is located, are pictured. (Crystal Tompkins/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Students in a UCLA Ecological Medicine seminar traded their classroom for the outdoors in spring quarter. Conor Murray, the instructor for Psychiatry 186, led students through the Mildred E. Read more...
Photo: Students in the UCLA Ecological Medicine seminar travel through the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden, where they participated in a “forest-bathing” exercise. (Maanasi Kademani/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 12 at 10:18 p.m. UCLA faculty said the success of NASA’s April Artemis II mission was a pivotal moment for human spaceflight. Read more...
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This post was updated May 7 at 9:06 p.m. The United States Department of Justice alleged Wednesday that the David Geffen School of Medicine illegally considered race in its admissions processes, discriminating against white and Asian American applicants. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division alleged in a Wednesday press release that the School of Medicine illegally used race as a selection criteria for candidates and admitted Black and Latino students who had lower academic qualifications than their white and Asian counterparts. Read more...
Photo: The David Geffen School of Medicine Learning Resource Center is pictured. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged Wednesday that UCLA’s medical school illegally considered race in its admissions processes, discriminating against white and Asian American applicants. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated May 7 at 9:12 p.m. About 60 healthcare professionals gathered at Luskin Turnaround on Wednesday morning to protest patient overcrowding at UCLA’s on-campus hospital. Members of the California Nurses Association, Committee of Interns and Residents and University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America 9119 – which represents healthcare, research and technical professionals – gave speeches calling on the University to address alleged overcrowding issues in the emergency department at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Hannah Spungen is pictured giving a speech as one of the many healthcare professionals who gathered at Luskin Turnaround on Wednesday morning to protest patient overcrowding at UCLA’s on-campus hospital. (Izzy Greig/Daily Bruin)
