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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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U.S. immigrants pay more for health insurance than they get in benefits

Source:
Reuters
Date:
October 10, 2018
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, associate professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in a Reuters article about a new study reporting that U.S. immigrants who have private health insurance contribute more to the risk pool than they receive in benefits.
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Ebola cases spike as nervous communities stop cooperating with health care workers

Source:
The Hill
Date:
October 10, 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 by The Hill in an article about the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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FSPH Researchers Investigating Role of Air Pollution and Pesticides in Development of Alzheimer’s and Type 2 Diabetes

Date:
October 10, 2018
Identifying overlapping risk factors could have major public health implications.
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Some healthcare workers in past Ebola outbreak may be able to 'neutralize' virus

Source:
Healio Infectious Disease News
Date:
October 9, 2018
Healio featured a study led by Nicole A. Hoff, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, reporting that a significant number of healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are reactive to at least one Ebola virus protein despite never reporting infection.
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Better insurance coverage of non-drug therapies might help ease opioid crisis

Source:
Reuters
Date:
October 9, 2018
Nadereh Pourat, professor-in-residence of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research at the Fielding School, was quoted in a Reuters story about health insurers providing little or no coverage of non-opioid treatments for back pain.
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Cancer researcher honored for work benefitting patients and families

Source:
UCLA Newsroom
Date:
October 9, 2018
The Association of Community Cancer Centers will present Dr. Patricia Ganz, director of prevention and control research at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and a distinguished professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, with its clinical research award at its national conference in October.
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Loneliness is an emerging public health threat

Source:
The Hill
Date:
October 9, 2018
The Hill published an opinion piece by Dr. Jonathan Fielding, distinguished professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, in which he describes loneliness as a public health threat.
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