Word: ucla
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...mention his prolificacy, as he nears his hundredth film—are simply extraordinary. The first American scholarly work on Korean film proposed as its title a simple apposition: Im Kwon Taek: the Making of a Korean National Cinema. Domestic ticket sales confirm what Kyung Hyun Kim, the UCLA professor who wrote the book in question, suggests: that the significance of Im’s work in South Korea is not to be underestimated...
...children suffer from juvenile arthritis, cancer, fibromyalgia and other extremely painful disorders. Moreover, as many as 20% of kids who undergo surgery each year develop chronic pain that lasts long after the body has healed. According to Dr. Lonnie Zeltzer, founder and director of the Pediatric Pain Program at UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital, an operation can jump-start a child's immature nervous system, stimulating pain-sensing neurons that will keep firing indefinitely...
...UCLA program uses an innovative mind-body approach that has typically not been used before to treat chronic pediatric pain. Team members begin by taking a detailed pain history and asking kids--even as young as 4 or 5--where it hurts and exactly how bad it feels. Says Zeltzer: "You have to be a detective and put all the pieces together." The resulting treatment plan may include pain-killers, but these often have side effects--and because they're usually only tested in adults, they sometimes act unpredictably in kids. Whenever possible, Zeltzer chooses from a broad range...
...Greenwich Village. Born on October 16, 1958, in West Covina, California, Robbins had discovered acting by the time he was 12. In New York City he joined the avant-garde troupe “Theater in the New City,” and by 1979 was studying drama at UCLA...
...National Institute of Mental Health, suicide is the third leading cause of death amongst adolescents, so there is a great danger in not prescribing antidepressants to those who need them most. Thus, the risks of medication must be weighed against the risks of not delivering critical treatment. A recent UCLA study has shown a correlation between a decline in suicide rates and the introduction of the current family of antidepressants into the market. Nevertheless, more research needs to be conducted to conclusively determine the safest course of action...