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...That's what happened to Gunjan Thiagarajah, 29, a sales and marketing employee at a biotech firm in Los Angeles, who graces this week's cover about India Inc. Last year Thiagarajah was a student in business school at UCLA when a friend invited her to a photo shoot with a stock photographer. She thought it would be a fun experience and a quick way to make $100. She had no idea that, through the process of stock photography, her face would become an international symbol for the future of India...
...fever, has a lot of redness or shows signs that an abscess is forming, you need to get to a doctor right away. "It never hurts for a patient to say something like, Could this be an MRSA infection?" says Dr. Jack Edwards, chief of infectious disease at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. It could make all the difference in the world...
Such grim scenarios haven't played out in California, which passed a more limited paid-leave law in 2002. (Employees there can receive 55% of their pay for six weeks.) According to a May report by UCLA and Rutgers University, workers in California took an average of 4.5 weeks of leave under the new lawhalf a day more than with unpaid leave...
...death) or benefit (no symptoms) that could result from treatment following a PSA test in which high levels of the antigen are found. Another wheel shows probable outcomes if he opts against the test. "Screening isn't all apple pie and motherhood," says project leader Dr. Jerome Hoffman of UCLA, who expects the tool to launch in seven California hospital networks this summer and more widely in the spring...
...holding down a full-time job, so I went to Los Angeles this week to meet some of you who live this way. Sara Lopez was one. This petite Big Mac has been taking classes full-time at Santa Monica College, while also working as a cashier at the UCLA hospital cafeteria. On Tuesdays and Thursdays she only goes to school. On Saturdays and Sundays she works a full day. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday she pulls a double shift of school then work. This 21-year-old gets no days off. But she doesn?t seem stressed...