The Los Angeles Times reports today on the visit of 41 foreign ambassadors to the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Monday as part of a West Coast tour for diplomats organized by the Office of the U.S. Chief of Protocol. The medical center will officially open June 29.

 

HealthDay News reported Monday on research by Dr. Matthew Budoff, associate clinical professor of cardiology at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, that showed that scanning the heart’s arteries for calcium deposits helped accurately predict adults’ death risk from heart attack, stroke and other major problems.

 

Variety reports today that Robert Rosen, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, will be honored next month by the Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors for fostering creative talent and expanding the school’s efforts to incorporate new technologies.

 

 

Blasi, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Monday in an Associated Press article about an increase in the number of people living in their vehicles in Los Angeles as a result of the economic downturn.

 

Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, was quoted Monday in a HealthDay News article about the health risks associated with vitamin D deficiency.

 

Gilbert, librarian at the UCLA Music Library, is quoted today in a Vancouver Sun article about the rediscovery of the original musical score to the 1914 silent film “In the Land of the Head Hunters.”