Imperial Valley News Center
Experimental therapy for brain cancer developed by UCLA and Caltech could prevent drug resistance
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- Written by Reggie Kumar
Los Angeles, California - UCLA and Caltech researchers have developed a technique that shows promise for preventing drug resistance in people with glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest type of brain cancer.
UCLA medical and engineering experts team up to improve health care
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- Written by Bill Kisliuk
Los Angeles, California - The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have formed a new center whose mission is to improve the quality and reliability of new health care technologies, reduce the length and cost of hospital stays, and allow more patients to heal in their own homes.
Americans Living Longer With Disability or Health Issues
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- Written by Emily Gersema
Los Angeles, California - Americans are living longer but in poorer health, according to a new study.
UC Davis Poverty Research Summit to Build a Roadmap for Reducing Poverty in California, Nation
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- Written by Karen Nikos-Rose
Davis, California - The UC Davis Poverty Research and Poverty Summit will bring together researchers, policymakers and people who work on the front lines of poverty to discuss ways forward in a state with the highest poverty rate in the nation. Twenty-three percent of Californians lived in poverty in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty measure.
Scorpion Venom Yields Clues for Developing Better Pharmaceuticals
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- Written by Trina Wood
Davis, California - Normally, people consider scorpions to be dangerous because of their venomous sting, but an international group of researchers recently discovered that a particular family of toxins, the calcins, found in some venom, might also have a unique beneficial function.
Society needs to better understand the economics of climate change
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- Written by Laura Seaman
Stanford, California - Scientists have made huge strides in understanding the physical and biological dimensions of climate change, from deciphering why climate has changed in the past to predicting how it might change in the future.
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