The Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News and KPCC-89.3 FM report today on the opening of the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center following Sunday’s relocation of hundreds of UCLA hospital patients to the new facility. KABC-Channel 7 and KTLA-Channel 5 covered the story Sunday, and the Daily Breeze previewed the move on Saturday. Dr. Gerald S. Levey, vice chancellor of medical sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted in the L.A. Times; Dr. David Feinberg, chief executive officer and interim vice chancellor of the UCLA Hospital System was quoted by KPCC and KABC; and Dr. James Atkinson, professor and chief of pediatric surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted by KABC.

 

An article in Sunday’s Boston Globe about research on the ability to pay attention cites studies by Dr. Lidia Zylowska, a UCLA psychiatrist and associate director for professional education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, part of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

 

Asian News International reported Sunday on research co-authored by Aimee Drolet, associate professor of marketing at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, that found that people tend to underestimate the intensity of their recalled feelings if those feelings are mixed, as opposed to purely happy or sad.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by a woman awaiting a liver transplant who, on the advice of nutritionist Dr. Zhaoping Li, associate professor of clinical medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, started participating in low-impact aerobics in order to build muscle mass.

 

Saturday’s Los Angeles Times reports that UCLA art professor Barbara Kruger has been elected to the board of trustees of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

 

An article in Sunday’s Miami Herald about Latino actors and musicians getting involved in the current presidential campaign cites statistics on the U.S. Hispanic population from the UCLA School of Public Affairs.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by Claire Panosian Dunavan, clinical professor of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about the continuing psychological and social stigma surrounding leprosy.

 

A study by Dr. Alcino Silva, professor of neurobiology and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute, and Dan Ehninger, a UCLA postgraduate researcher in neurobiology, that found that learning disorders resulting from a genetic mutation that causes autism in humans can be reversed in mice was featured Wednesday by New Scientist.

 

Science magazine reported Friday on research led by UCLA assistant professor of psychiatry Mary-Frances O’Connor that found that certain types of chronic grief activate reward centers in the brain, possibly giving sorrowful memories addiction-like properties.

 

An article in today’s Los Angeles Times about the potential risk of cancer from cell phone use cites a joint study by UCLA and the University of Aarhus in Denmark that found that children of women who used cell phones while pregnant were more likely to develop behavioral problems. Study co-author Leeka Kheifets, professor-in-residence of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health, is quoted.

 

 

Bearden, UCLA clinical neuropsychologist and assistant professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, is quoted today in a WedMD article about managing bipolar behavior.

 

Cole, project manager with the Health Impact Assessment Project at the UCLA School of Public Health, was quoted Sunday in a Wave article about concerns raised by local residents over potential drilling in a southwest Los Angeles oil field.

 

Heber, director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about body detoxification treatments.

 

Kobashigawa, UCLA clinical professor of cardiology and medical director of the heart transplant program at the UCLA Medical Center, was quoted Sunday in an Associated Press article about a woman who recently climbed Yosemite’s Half Dome after receiving a heart transplant at UCLA.

 

Kotler, clinical instructor in the division of head and neck surgery at UCLA Medical Center, is quoted today in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the increasing number of foreign nationals coming to the U.S. for cosmetic surgery.

 

Loukaitou-Sideris, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, was quoted Saturday in an Indianapolis Business Journal article about a public-private effort to revitalize neighborhoods near downtown Indianapolis.

 

Orfield, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, was quoted Saturday in an Associated Press article about the effect Barack Obama’s candidacy may have on Americans’ views of affirmative action.

 

Roth, clinical professor of medicine and director of the UCLA Digestive Disease Center, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about body detoxification treatments.

 

Shamie, UCLA assistant professor of orthopedic surgery, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times column about shoe inserts purported to relieve back pain.

 

Volokh, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times article about the relationship between gun-control laws and crime. Volokh was also cited Saturday in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain News about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on a Washington, D.C., gun-control law.

 

Wallenstein, visiting assistant professor of family medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about the accuracy of a television show’s portrayal of a comatose patient hooked to a ventilator at home.

 

Winkler, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on a Washington, D.C., gun-control law.