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Up to 3.7 million will enroll in new or more affordable insurance through the California Health Benefit Exchange, Medi-Cal expansion Nine out of 10 Californians under the age of 65 will be enrolled in health insurance programs as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a joint study by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Between 1.8 million and 2.7 million previously uninsured...

The international Laboratory Safety Culture Survey will gather data on researchers’ safety practices and attitudes; information to provide guidance for future safety policies and procedures. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 14, 2012 The University of California Center for Laboratory Safety, BioRAFT, and Nature Publishing Group have joined forces to launch an international survey to identify issues impacting laboratory safety. The survey invites tens of thousands of researchers to...

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has filed suit on behalf of Dr. James E. Enstrom, a UCLA research professor who was terminated after he blew the whistle on junk environmental science and scientific misconduct at the University of California (UC). "The facts of this case are astounding," said David French, Senior Counsel of the ACLJ. "UCLA terminated a professor after 35 years of service simply because he exposed...

Sequencing protein-making part of genome can change diagnosis and patient care In the June 13 issue of Science Translational Medicine, an international team led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reports that the new technology of exome sequencing is not only a promising method for identifying disease-causing genes, but may also improve diagnoses and guide individual patient care. In exome sequencing, researchers selectively and simultaneously...

Researchers work to untangle knots, slipknots in species separated by a billion years of evolution Strings of all kinds, when jostled, wind up in knots. It turns out that happens even when the strings are long strands of molecules that make up proteins. A new study by scientists at Rice University and elsewhere examines structures of proteins that not only twist and turn themselves into knots, but also form slipknots that, if anybody could actually see them, might look like shoelaces...

Studies suggest greater danger, but risk appears to vary by definition Millions of pre-diabetic Americans may be at increased risk of future stroke, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new meta-analysis of epidemiological studies, but the precise degree of that threat is confounded by differing medical definitions and factors that remain unknown or unmeasured. "The immediate implication of our findings is that people with pre-diabetes...

Seasoned Engineering Leader Brings More Than 25 Years of Open-Source and Enterprise Expertise to Newly Formed Networking Lab PALO ALTO, Calif., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, ON.Lab, the open source arm of the Open Networking Research Center (ONRC), a partnership between Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and leading commercial organizations seeking to advance the state-of-the-art in software-defined networking (SDN), announced that William Snow...

LA JOLLA, Calif., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- America's obesity problem has reached startling proportions, but Dr. Robert Lustig's message -- that sugar is a toxin that's fueling the obesity epidemic -- has become downright infectious ever since his UCSF talk, "Sugar: The Bitter Truth," appeared on University of California Television's (UCTV) YouTube channel in 2009. With over 2.4 million views to date, the video has sparked a national dialogue, earned coverage in The New York Times...

LOS ANGELES, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, at the 52nd annual New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) Conference in Arizona, Ian Cook, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Senior Medical Advisor to NeuroSigma, Inc., presented the results from the first 6-subject cohort of a 10-subject Phase I open-label clinical trial studying the effects of external trigeminal nerve stimulation (eTNS(TM)) on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder...

LOS ANGELES, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Three dedicated leaders in health education will be honored by The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) as the 2012 Champions of Health Professions Diversity for their successful efforts to improve the health and wellness of California's most underserved communities. Lawrence "Hy" Doyle of the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, provides skills and opportunities for disadvantaged students to enter and...