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New Zealand banned rifles. Why can’t America? | Bloomberg Opinion
“The energy of the gun violence prevention movement can be sapped pretty quickly,” said UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.”
Kentucky’s governor took his kids to a chicken pox party | Washington Post
“It’s a public health hazard,” said Steven Teutsch, an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the University of California at Los Angeles and a former officer at the CDC. “One of the things that we worry about is that you know people who think these things — you’re on a slippery slope that leaves the kids and the population vulnerable.”
Do Americans have a right to a livable planet? | Vogue
“If I were a betting person, I would bet the Ninth Circuit will not find in favor of the kids,” says UCLA School of Law professor Ann E. Carlson. Still, “virtually every law professor who follows this, except those involved in the case, thought this was going to get kicked out of court right away. That didn’t happen.”
Two California deaths show e-scooter risks are real | Fresno Bee
The University of California, Los Angeles, recently conducted a study based on scooter injuries at two L.A. hospitals and found that head injuries were the most common injury, followed by broken bones. Lesser injuries were less likely to involve a hospital visit. Several scooter riders hit and injured pedestrians, but most crashes involved the scooter rider running into an object.
Pesticide exposure during pregnancy could increase child’s autism risk | Time
Led by Ondine von Ehrenstein, associate professor in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, the researchers analyzed autism registry data in California along with data on pesticide spraying in the state. They published their findings in the BMJ.
Efforts to save local mountain lions | KTLA-TV
Researchers with UCLA, UC Davis and the National Park Service say the big cats have reached dangerously low levels of genetic diversity. Experts say there’s a need for wildlife crossings over freeways that could give them more access to open space, food and mates.
Nevada considers banning ‘gay panic’ defense | Nevada Current
“It’s really targeting gay men and secondly transgender women. Year after year for the last four years we’ve had a record number of transgender woman of color who have been murdered,” said Brad Sears, a scholar at the [UCLA] Williams Institute which focuses on LGBT rights, who helped develop the bill. “The value of this bill is for the state to take a stand against this epidemic of violence and to say the state protects LGBT people.”
Only a jury can solve whether weed killer caused cancer | Bloomberg Opinion
On the face if it, this new study looks quite good, said UCLA statistician and epidemiologist Sander Greenland. … As for cause and effect, there is no consistent definition in law or science. In both arenas, people usually define cause as a counterfactual statement: “Both reduce to saying X caused Y if Y would not have occurred if X had not acted or occurred.”
Lawmaker wants email receipts to replace paper ones | CALmatters
Receipts increasingly are made of thermal paper, and thus printed without ink. A chemical sometimes used to coat thermal paper, Bisphenol A (BPA), mimics estrogen and has been linked to cancer; in 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned its use in baby bottles. Receipt paper now more commonly contains Bisphenol S (BPS), a replacement for BPA that some recent studies, including one from UCLA, indicate may be just as harmful.
Potential new treatment for pancreatic cancer | Medical Xpress
Researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a possible new therapeutic strategy using two types of drug inhibitors at once to treat one of the world’s deadliest cancers. The combination approach uses one drug that inhibits the process — known as lysosome — that allows cancer cells to recycle essential nutrients to survive, and another drug that blocks the pathway used to repair DNA.
EPA head says drinking water a larger threat than climate change | U.S. News & World Report
Dennis Lettenmaier, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Geography Department, said he partially agrees with Wheeler’s statements on drinking water. Despite agreeing that contaminated drinking water is a “now” problem, Lettenmaier said it should not prevent work on climate change. The two issues go hand-in-hand, he said.
Heart attack symptoms in men | U.S. News & World Report
Lifestyle changes can help reduce modifiable risk factors for men, says Dr. Matthew J. Budoff, a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles. … Maintaining a heart-healthy eating regimen, like the Mediterranean diet, and keeping to a regular exercise routine can help mitigate almost all of the modifiable risk factors for heart attack for men, Budoff says.
