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Critics say vaccine bill will risk kids’ medical privacy. Real threat or red herring? | Los Angeles Times
“There has been so much cybercrime that it’s natural that parents are concerned about the protection of privacy,” said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, professor of public health and medicine at UCLA and former public health director for Los Angeles County. “I can’t say it’s an illegitimate concern, but you do have to weigh the importance of trying to prevent outbreaks and broader epidemics of a number of diseases.”
A Mexican celebration with roots in the U.S. Civil War | La Opinión
“California was a part of Mexico, and the [Cinco de Mayo] celebration originates from the North American Civil War,” says Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “When Hidalgo declared [Mexican] independence in 1810, he also declared racial equality and the abolishment of slavery.… The French wanted to impose Maximilian [of Hapsburg], who could align himself with slavers, and so Latinos supported Lincoln and Mexican president Benito Juarez.” (Translated from Spanish)
California to fine developer for building pricey beach hotel | Associated Press
Efforts to make sure lower-income people can visit beaches and also afford to spend the night are central to the commission’s mission, said Sean Hecht, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We don’t want beaches to become only a place for the wealthy. We have many residents who don’t live within driving distance to the coast and they should be able to enjoy it and spend some time,” said Hecht.
Severe alcohol-related liver disease on the rise, study finds | NBC News
One issue the new study didn’t raise was the increasing rates of liver disease in women, said Dr. Sammy Saab, a professor of medicine and surgery and head of outcomes research in hepatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. “What we are seeing now is an explosion of young women with liver disease,” Saab said. “Young women are dying in their 30s and 40s.” Nevertheless, Saab said, the new study “does bring more attention to a very serious problem that’s been ignored for many years.”
Heart failure deaths rising in U.S., especially among young adults | Reuters
“Some have speculated this mortality increase has to do with increased prevalence of heart failure risk factors of diabetes and obesity,” said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a cardiologist and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wasn’t involved in the study. However, it’s also possible that a recent shift in Medicare payment rules designed to curb repeat hospitalizations may have “also contributed to the increases in mortality by restricting necessary care, particularly in the most vulnerable heart failure patients,” Fonarow said by email.
Can high-density housing and historic neighborhoods coexist in Los Angeles? | Los Angeles Times Column
UCLA professor Mike Manville sees this a little differently. Wiener’s bill has already been softened in answer to critics, he noted, and there’s no telling how or whether it might emerge when the all the futzing is done. But he likes the intent behind it. He says he understands the concerns of Carthay Circle residents but thinks everyone has to contribute to solving the housing crisis, including those living “smack dab in the middle” of the nation’s second-largest city. “We have people in our city living in tents. They live in their cars. They live under our highway overpasses and they die on our sidewalks,” Manville said. “At a certain point, the pedigree of your house has to matter a little bit less” if you live within walking distance of major transit stops and jobs. “You ought to have to share some of these opportunities your location offers.”
Why 3D mammograms are essential for women over 40 | Healthline
“Imagine the breast as a thick book. A regular mammogram tries to see through all the pages by squishing it as thin as possible. A 3D mammogram looks one page at a time,” Dr. Deanna J. Attai, MD, an assistant clinical professor in the department of surgery at David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Healthline.
Betsy DeVos: stop using ‘my name as clickbait’ | New York Magazine
But some critics claim that the publicly funded, privately managed charters are an unnecessary drain on public-school funding and an unintentional source of school segregation. In 2010, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA called charter schools “a civil rights failure,” and in 2016, the NAACP called for a moratorium on charters until “public funds are not diverted to charter schools at the expense of the public school system.”
A new, improved reality depends on you | San Francisco Chronicle Opinion
No matter how insistent you are about scientific fact, all facts enter our minds as either sensations, images, feelings, or thoughts, which UCLA psychiatry professor Daniel J. Siegel has shortened to SIFT. SIFT is necessary in order for anything to be real to a human being. Since the stories we tell and hear are also based on SIFT, especially on thoughts, it turns out that reality gets much messier than it would at first appear.
Joe Biden claims he was a staunch liberal in the Senate. He wasn’t | Politifact
We examined several different ideology ratings to assess Biden’s claim. One of the most widely cited among academics is the Voteview database, which is maintained by UCLA. Voteview derives lawmakers’ ideological grades from roll call votes.
How additional China tariffs could hit your wallet harder than expected | Fortune
A separate study from UCLA found workers “in heavily Republican counties were the most negatively affected by the trade war.”
