Today’s New York Times article about healthcare coverage for legal immigrants cites a recent study by the Center for Health Policy Research at UCLA  which found that California would have the largest population of uninsured residents after any coverage proposal. Steven Wallace, UCLA professor of public health and associate director of the center, and Dr. Michael Rodriguez, professor of family medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, were quoted.

A Thursday story in the Press-Enterprise about the high cancer risk in people living near a west San Bernardino rail yard mentions a study, headed by John Froines, professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health and director of UCLA's Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, which will examine the toxicity of the rail yard’s emissions with a grant from the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Friones was quoted.

Tuesday’s U.S. News & World Report reprinted a press release featuring new research by Gregory Grether, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Christopher Anderson, who recently earned his doctorate in Grether's laboratory, which found that different colors in animals are used to distinguish competing species as another evolutionary factor to animals’ diverse coloration. Grether was quoted.

 

Alessandro Duranti, UCLA professor of anthropology, was interviewed on BBC’s “Up All Night” concerning the death of famed French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss.

Today’s KPCC-89.3 FM interviews Gary Gates, senior research fellow at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, on a recent study that compared U.S. demographic data on same-sex couples who identify as married, gay couples who say they are unmarried and married heterosexual couples.

Reuters reported Tuesday on research by Leah Ellenberg, UCLA associate clinical professor (voluntary) of psychiatry, showing that individuals who have survived childhood brain cancer tend to experience ongoing cognitive problems and have lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings and survivors of other cancers.

 

The Daily Breeze reported Tuesday that UCLA students received four of the top five prizes in the 54th annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards competition. The winners of the competition, which is open to all University of California students, were announced Monday on the UCLA campus. 

 

SPACE.com reported Tuesday that researchers from UCLA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute have found new evidence that supernovae and stellar “winds” from massive stars are the likely sources behind cosmic rays. Researcher Rene Ong, UCLA professor of physics and astrophysics was quoted.

 

 

Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, was quoted Wednesday in a HealthDay News article about a new study suggesting that statins may increase fatigue in patients with heart failure.

Heber, professor of medicine and public health and director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times column about obesity putting H1N1 influenza sufferers at greater risk in developing complications.

Kahn, a UCLA Institute of the Environment professor with joint appointments in economics and public policy, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal blog item about Warren Buffett's $26.3 billion acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

Taylor, UCLA professor of psychology and sociology, was quoted Tuesday in a Business Week article about getting in the mindset for planning and action.