Archives
As temperatures hit triple digits on a blue-sky July day in the Los Angeles community of Pacoima, families escape the heat at a local park. Many of the surrounding homes lack air conditioning, and the neighborhood’s sparse stands of towering palm trees provide scant…
More than half the U.S. population lives in counties where Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are high enough that people should wear masks in indoor public settings, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
The CDC’s latest assessment…
China has been tweaking its stringent COVID curbs but shows no sign of backing off from its "dynamic zero" policy, and has lagged in vaccination efforts that would enable it to do so, casting a heavy shadow over the world's second-largest economy.
The absence of a…
Pamela McCarroll doesn’t have the luxury of ignoring phone calls from unknown numbers.
The 30-year old is undergoing treatment for long-term colon cancer in Fairfax County, Va., and never knows whether it could be a doctor, a hospital with test results, or someone…
Extreme heat is fueling more than 1,500 excess emergency room visits per “heat day” in Los Angeles County, with some neighborhoods facing far more danger than others, according to a new UCLA mapping tool.
The heat map tracks the number and rate of excess…
More than 900 hazardous sites — power plants, sewage treatment plants, refineries, cleanup areas and other facilities — across California could be inundated with ocean water and groundwater by the end of the century, according to climate scientists at UCLA and UC…
CNN interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about the need for a testing and vaccine campaign focused on monkeypox.
“Viruses…
The growing dominance of two new ultra-contagious Omicron subvariants is prolonging a wave of coronavirus cases in California and sparking growing concerns from health officials that coming weeks could see significant spread and increased hospitalizations.
BA.4…
Dr. Elizabeth Yano was named member of the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military.
Dr. Elizabeth Yano was named to the National Institutes of Health’s Steering Committee on Sex and Gender Differences for the NIH Vivian Pinn Symposium.
Dr. Weng Kee Wong was named a Yushan Scholar by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
Dr. Nathan D. Wong was elected president of the Inter-American Heart Foundation in December 2020.
Dr. May C. Wang was named to the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research program.
Dr. Candace Tsai was named a member of the Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances Committee for the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo.
Dr. Paul Torrens received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Partners in Care Foundation.
Dr. Marc A. Suchard's research article was cited by the MIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics as a “Best Article.”
Dr. Marc A. Suchard was named one of the world’s most influential scientific researchers by the Clarivate Web of Science Group.
Dr. Brennan Spiegel’s book, “VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine,” was named one of the top eight science books of 2020 by Wired magazine.
Dr. Linda Rosenstock received the “100 in 100” achievement honor for women from UCLA Health.
Dr. Beate Ritz was reappointed to the California Air Resources Board’s Scientific Review Panel.