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Pharmacies still blocking U.S. teens looking for emergency contraception

Source:
Reuters
Date:
November 2, 2018
Reuters featured a study co-authored by Paula Tavrow, associate adjunct professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. The study reports that teens run into significant roadblocks when trying to buy emergency contraception at pharmacies.
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Health coverage disparities eliminated under ACA for most racial groups, report finds

Source:
California Health Report
Date:
November 1, 2018
California Health Report featured a new study by Tara Becker, senior public administration analyst at the Fielding School's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The study reports that African-Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders living in California are just as likely to have health insurance as whites.
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California Latinos have highest rates of being uninsured

Source:
Hoy/Agencia EFE
Date:
October 31, 2018
Hoy/Agencia EFE featured Latino health data from the 2017 California Health Interview Survey, which is administered by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Ninez Ponce, professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was quoted.
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An Ebola outbreak in a war zone is about as bad as it gets

Source:
WIRED
Date:
October 25, 2018
Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program, was quoted in WIRED about the challenges posed by the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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With vaccine in hand, Ebola response teams are struggling to track those who need it

Source:
STAT
Date:
October 23, 2018
Anne Rimoin, an associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program, was quoted in STAT article about the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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FSPH's Yifang Zhu and colleagues awarded federal grant to study electronic cigarettes

Date:
October 19, 2018
Yifang Zhu, professor of environmental health sciences and acting dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, is the principal investigator of a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
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Want to know when you’re going to die?

Source:
MIT Technology Review
Date:
October 19, 2018
Steve Horvath, professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was featured in MIT Technology Review. The article focused on his development of an epigenetic clock to predict human lifespan.
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Wealthy Los Angeles grapples with outbreak of typhus among its poorest

Source:
The Guardian
Date:
October 18, 2018
Dr. Timothy Brewer, a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted by The Guardian in an article about a typhus outbreak in Los Angeles County.
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Should you have knee replacement surgery?

Source:
The New York Times
Date:
October 15, 2018
Dr. Steven Teutsch, an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a collaborator with the UCLA Center for Health Advancement at the Fielding School, was quoted in The New York Times’ Personal Health column.
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FSPH researchers receive award to increase colorectal cancer screening

Source:
UCLA Newsroom
Date:
October 11, 2018
The team, led by Roshan Bastani, professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, will implement and evaluate a colorectal cancer screening program.
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