Past research has shown that pesticide exposure increases the risk of cancer. Now, UCLA-led research has exposed which specific pesticides increase the risk of retinoblastoma — a rare eye tumor — in children.
The study, published in the August International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, found that children prenatally exposed to the chemicals acephate and bromacil had an increased risk of developing unilateral retinoblastoma, or cancer in one eye, and that exposure to pymetrozine and kresoxim-methyl increased the risk of all types of retinoblastoma.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of access to healthcare, and this access is obtainable when a community has access to health insurance, according to work by UCLA researchers that explores insurance coverage in California's Salvadoran-American community.
The report - "Uninsured Salvadorans in California," and published by the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture - was released Sept. 15; the most important finding is that immigrant Salvadorans are three times more likely to be uninsured, compared to U.S.-born Salvadoran-Americans.
A UCLA-led research team has found apparent links between pesticides and thyroid cancer risk in three Central California counties.
In spite of being hit harder by COVID-19 than almost any other population in the U.S., Latinos pressed through the pandemic to produce the world’s fifth-largest GDP during 2020, according to research co-authored by Dr.
Ramces Jimenez has been working in research administration for 9 of his 13 years at UCLA. Before joining Epidemiology as a post-award fund manager, Ramces worked for the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies as a pre-and post-award fund manager, handling a large portfolio of mostly non-federal funding sources. Previously, he served as the senior fund manager for the Departments of Spanish/Portuguese and Linguistics, overseeing all fiscal affairs in large state funds and campus funds.
Gilda Noori, MD MPH is a Medical Director/Clinical Examiner with the MACS/ WISH Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS). She began her studies and research career at UCLA. From 2002-2006 Dr. Noori worked as a Health Science Specialist and later Project Manager for the many joint UCLA/VA research initiatives focused on palliative care. She obtained her master’s degree in public health with a thesis on HPV vaccine dissemination and community engagement. She continued in communicable disease research at the World Health Organization. Dr.
An international team of researchers has demonstrated that among patients hospitalized for influenza, those who were vaccinated had less severe infections, including reducing the odds for children requiring admittance to an intensive care unit by almost half.
In addition, the researchers found that deaths among hospitalized adults, 65 or older, who had been vaccinated were 38% lower compared to those who had not been vaccinated.
Dr. Akihiro Nishi, UCLA Fielding School assistant professor of epidemiology, will serve as co-principal investigator on a $1 million National Science Foundation project to improve pandemic preparedness.
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has received nearly $1.5 million in federal funding designed to support the school’s graduate students, in large part to reinforce the importance of the United States’ public health workforce.
More than three months into the U.S. monkeypox outbreak, there's a welcome phrase coming from the lips of health officials who are steering the country's response: cautious optimism.
The change in tone reflects "recent signs the rate of growth is slowing," according to a CDC technical report released Thursday. These signs are especially apparent in some of the major cities where the virus arrived early and spread quickly, such as New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco.