The Los Angeles Daily News reports today, and the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press reported Tuesday, on Olive View–UCLA Medical Center’s opening of the nation’s first clinic to study and treat Chagas disease, a deadly parasitic illness that has recently spread from Latin American to Europe and the United States. Dr. Sheba Meymandi, associate clinical professor of cardiology at Olive View–UCLA and director of the Chagas clinic, is quoted.

 

Bloomberg reports today on ongoing research by Dr. Gregory Moran, clinical professor of emergency medicine and infectious diseases at Olive View–UCLA Medical Center, exploring the effectiveness of generic, World War II-era antibiotics in fighting the deadly infection known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.

 

 

Arenella, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Tuesday in a Time magazine article about a 10-year-old boy who accidentally ignited one of the recent Southern California wildfires.

 

Banner, UCLA professor of law and author of “The Death Penalty: An American History,” was quoted Saturday in a U.S. News & World Report article about a Supreme Court case dealing with the constitutionality of lethal injection.

 

Davtyan, associate professor of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, commented Tuesday in an ABC News online article about a new study examining the risk of heart disease among women who have used oral contraceptives.

 

Mitchell, UCLA’s Ho-su Wu Professor of Management at the Anderson School of Management and distinguished professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s response to the state’s budget problems.

 

Ratcliff, an economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s response to the state’s budget problems.

 

Rokos, assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at UCLA–Olive View Medical Center, is quoted today in an Associated Press article about new emergency diagnostic techniques that help speed treatment for heart attacks.

 

Saguy, UCLA assistant professor of sociology, is quoted today in a Sacramento Bee article about recent research showing that being slightly overweight can actually reduce individuals’ risk of death.