The Los Angeles Times reports today on Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center's treatment of trauma patients injured in the recent Metrolink train crash in Chatsworth, Calif. Dr. Gill Cryer, professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and trauma director at the medical center, is quoted. The L.A. Times also features a column today by Dr. Mark Morocco, assistant professor at the Geffen School and associate residency director of emergency medicine at the medical center, about his experiences treating victims of the crash.

 

A study of nighttime satellite imagery by UCLA geographers that suggests that ethnic cleansing of Sunnis by Shiites, rather than the 2007 U.S. troop surge, was responsible for decreases in violence in Baghdad was featured Friday by Reuters, the Huffington Post and the Baltimore Examiner; Saturday by China’s Xinhua News Service, Iran’s PressTV, and Radio Netherlands; and today by the syndicated television news program “Democracy Now." UCLA geography professor and study co-author John Agnew was quoted in the coverage.

 

Reuters reported Saturday on research led by UCLA physics and astronomy professor Benjamin Zuckerman that suggests that dust floating around a binary star system some 300 light-years from Earth is the result of a massive collision between two planets.

 

Today's Los Angeles Times features a story about first-year UCLA students moving into campus residence halls this past weekend and how parents are adjusting to their children’s new independence.

 

Dr. Mary Hardy, medical director at the Simms/Mann–UCLA Center for Integrative Medicine at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was interviewed Thursday for a KABC-Channel 7 story about foods that may help protect against breast cancer.

 

Friday's New York Times featured a profile of UCLA art professor Catherine Opie, whose photographic work from the past 20 years is currently being exhibited at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Opie was quoted.

 

An article in Sunday’s San Diego Union-Tribune about obesity rates among American children highlights the findings of a recent major survey of Californians’ health conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

 

 

Bainbridge, UCLA professor of law, was cited Friday in a New York magazine blog about Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s comments on the ongoing global financial crisis.

 

FitzGerald, assistant clinical professor of rheumatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about a study suggesting that arthroscopic knee surgery is not effective for treating arthritis.

 

Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, was quoted Friday in a HealthDay News article about research indicating that excessive salt intake can contribute to resistant high blood pressure.

 

Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Friday in an Associated Press article about the effect the government’s $700 billion plan to rescue the financial industry will have on homebuyers. Leamer was also quoted Saturday in a San Gabriel Valley Tribune article about the current state of the Southern California real estate market.

 

Ohanian, professor of economics and vice chair of undergraduate studies for the UCLA Department of Economics, was cited Saturday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece comparing the current global financial turmoil to the stock market crash of October 1929 and the Great Depression.

 

Rubin, professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and chief of mental health at the UCLA –Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Times article about calls for mental health screenings for military veterans returning from service in war zones.

 

Sawyer, associate professor of political science and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, is quoted today in a Philadelphia Daily News article about white voters who are uncomfortable with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's name and African heritage.

 

Shoup, UCLA professor of urban planning, was quoted Saturday in an Associated Press article about city laws across the U.S. that require newly built homes to include space for vehicle parking.

 

Siegel, professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was cited Thursday in an Economist article about the connection between sleep and memory.

 

Tabsh, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about the accuracy of a recent television show’s portrayal of an abdominal pregnancy.

 

Yan-Go, clinical professor of neurology and pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and medical director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Santa Monica–UCLA Medical Center, was quoted Friday in a Health magazine Q&A about the appropriate use of sleeping pills.