Today’s Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and United Press International highlighted a state report that claims that several UCLA Medical Center employees have improperly accessed confidential files of dozens of celebrity and non-celebrity UCLA patients. David Feinberg, CEO and interim vice chancellor of the UCLA Hospital System, is quoted by the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times.

 

Today’s New York Sun and Monday’s KPCC 89.3FM, KCBS-Channel 2, KNBC-Channel 4, KABC-Channel 7, and KTTV-Channel 11 reported on one of the first transcontinental live-kidney donations between the New York–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Jeffrey Veale, assistant professor of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the paired-donation program, and Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, professor of medicine in the UCLA Division of Nephrology and medical director of the UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program, are quoted.

 

Today’s KTLA News features Dr. Joshua Freedman, UCLA assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, and his research that used brain-imaging techniques to examine what happens in the brain when individuals think about politics. Freedman is quoted.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times and Santa Cruz Sentinel report on the harassment of researchers at UC campuses, including UCLA, by groups and individuals opposed to the use of animals in research.

 

 

Altman, UCLA professor of medical rheumatology, is quoted today in a Wall Street Journal article about the benefits of ginger in aiding arthritis.

 

Goldberg, professor of law and faculty chair of the UCLA Native Nations Law and Policy Center, is quoted today in Riverside’s Press-Enterprise article about the ongoing dialogue between law enforcement officials and residents of the Soboba Indian Reservation in Riverside County.