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September 2, 2022
"Extreme heat waves are making firefighters sick, adding new dangers to job"
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September 2, 2022
"The monkeypox outbreak may be slowing in the U.S., but health officials urge caution"
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September 2, 2022
"The push for greener schools: How community groups are fighting extreme heat inequities"
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September 2, 2022
Are you protected from polio?
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August 29, 2022
More than 40% of unvaccinated Californians went maskless in May 2022 as the state's summer wave loomed

The California Health Interview Survey, led by principal investigator Dr. Ninez Ponce, has found both a drop in risk reduction behaviors, and that one third of Californians are experiencing long COVID.

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August 23, 2022
Older adults and adults with disabilities: In need of care but financially strapped
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August 17, 2022
"The case for Medicare for all: Congress passes an inflation bill but is it enough?"

USA Today interviewed Dr. Gerald Kominski, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor emeritus of health policy and management, about why 25 million Americans, in a population of 329.5 million, still remain without health insurance.

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August 12, 2022
"World ignored monkeypox threats, including signs of sexual transmission"

The Washington Post 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 her team's research, published in 2010, that predicted a monkeypox outbreak.

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August 11, 2022
Monkeypox: How to avoid stigmatizing language

Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and director of the UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health (C-LARAH), addresses the importance of communications in the public health response to the correct monkeybox outbreak.

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August 10, 2022
UCLA study demonstrates doctors can be influenced by the first diagnoses – sometimes towards misdiagnosis

Dr. Joann Elmore, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, addresses how pathologists tasked with offering a second opinion for a patient might be influenced by being informed of the first physician’s initial diagnosis.

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August 8, 2022
Meet Dr. Anne Coleman, director of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology

Dr. Anne L. Coleman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and a graduate (PhD, '97) has been named director of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology; Coleman addresses the intersection between research and clinical care in ophthalmology, her medical specialty.

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August 4, 2022
In memoriam: Dr. John Froines, visionary UCLA Fielding environmental health researcher and advocate

Dr. John Froines, professor emeritus in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences, died on July 13 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

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