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...news was disappointing and upsetting, because it sidetracked what scientists believed--and I had come to hope-- was a promising avenue of research. That promise was underscored by several papers presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) last week, including one out of UCLA Medical School that showed that Celebrex, used in combination with newer cancer drugs, was successful in treating patients with late-stage lung cancer. In 9 out of 15 patients whose prior treatments had failed, the Celebrex cocktail either stopped the disease from progressing or shrank their tumors. In cancer circles...
Upon receiving the ICG letter, Yale University President Richard C. Levin referred the matter to the Yale Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility. The ICG has also received inquiries for more information about divestment from UCLA, Stanford, and Amherst...
...evidence linking menopause to mood swings and fuzzy thinking, despite lots of anecdotal reports, is less clear. "One of the challenges of this research is teasing out which symptoms are associated with menopause and which are simply the result of aging," says Dr. Carol Mangione, the UCLA professor of medicine who led the NIH panel. The point is, if you need relief, hormone replacement is worth considering. It's best to start with as low a dose as is effective. But many women find they do just fine without it. --By Christine Gorman
Faith matters to students as they head off to college, but then it tends to lapse. In a national study issued last month by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, 79% of 112,000 freshmen surveyed profess a belief in God; 69% say they pray. Still, only 40% think it is very important to follow religious teachings in everyday life. Spiritually, "college is a time of flux," says Alexander Astin, the study's co--principal investigator. That leads to "a dramatic falling-off of religious participation during the undergraduate years." But a significant minority are holding fast to their faith...
...study at UCLA, says that we white people self-separate more than anyone else on college campuses. Douglass Massey’s “American Apartheid” cites that one in four whites prefer to live in a neighborhood entirely absent of black people. White people have run miles and miles away from minorities, leaving vast suburban wastelands all over the country, wastelands where everything looks the same and white people do variations of all the same things. It’s left adults rotting on the couch in front of the TV and adolescents with nothing better...