Vital Signs
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Spring 2023
- What’s new at UCLA.
- Cancer care available in community clinics.
- Pioneering protocol opens door to transplantation without need for antirejection medication.
- Advocating for oneself important during pregnancy journey.
- Increasing rate of adolescent depression tied to rise in social media.
- Hybrid therapy becomes treatment of choice for select abdominal cancers.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Living with a pet is good medicine.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Winter 2023
- What’s new at UCLA.
- Baseline cardiac screening recommended for women
- Women with silicone breast implants should have regular checkups.
- Although less common than in adults, children can experience long COVID-19, too.
- Over-the-counter hearing aids expand access for consumers.
- Post-stroke comprehensive care vital to fullest recovery.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: The darker the better for a good night’s sleep.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Fall 2022
- What’s new at UCLA.
- The same medicine can come in different shapes and sizes.
- UCLA pediatric heart-transplant program performs historic 500th procedure.
- Program offers survivors of gynecologic cancers a place to heal after treatment.
- It’s never too late to take measures to prevent falls.
- Changes to daily aspirin recommendations for heart and stroke prevention.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: The health benefits of coffee.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness
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Summer 2022
- What’s new at UCLA.
- Keep babies safe at bedtime.
- Understanding alopecia areata and its impacts.
- Train properly to avoid weekendwarrior injuries.
- How to talk to children after a traumatic event.
- Nutrition to support brain health following a TBI.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Be open with your doctor.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Spring 2022
- What’s new at UCLA.
- Be aware how medications may affect blood pressure.
- To improve nutrition, focus on the basics.
- UCLA clinic encourages men to take a greater role in their ongoing health care.
- Understanding of AIDS has come a long way since the disease first identified at UCLA.
- Practicing mindfulness can help to relieve the stresses of difficult times.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: The soothing sound of music.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Winter 2022
- What’s new at UCLA
- Time to catch up on regular check-ups.
- UCLA audiology storefront and clinic offers latest hearing-aid technology.
- Sensory impairment and dementia risk: What’s the connection?
- Q & A: Why a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine is needed.
- UCLA Health offers gamechanging treatment for early-stage melanoma.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Medical-grade honey.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Fall 2021
- What’s new at UCLA
- COVID-19 shot is safe to administer with other vaccines.
- MOMS clinic assists pregnant and postpartum women with mental health conditions.
- COVID-19 vaccine can affect mammogram result, but in most cases it is not of concern.
- Essential oils have gone mainstream.
- VidaTalk app gives patients with communication challenges the ability to express their needs.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Peripheral artery disease.
- Community calendar.
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Summer 2021
- What’s new at UCLA.
- Preventing falls in older adults.
- Injuries among young athletes are on the rise.
- Advances in spine surgery open door to relief for more patients.
- COVID-19 brought a year of loss to everyone.
- To boost immunity, look to the gut.
- Ask the Doctors UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Is no pain, no gain the best approach to exercise?
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Spring 2021
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: In-home COVID-19 testing.
- Q&A: Return to normalcy following COVID-19 vaccine?
- Pregnancy and the COVID-19 vaccine.
- The pandemic and stress.
- Keep up with child-wellness visits.
- Advances in radiation therapy.
- Ask the Doctors UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Exercise after recovering from COVID-19.
- Community calendar Health and wellness for the community.
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Winter 2021
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Community cancer care.
- Q&A: Child development in the time of COVID-19.
- New CAR T-cell therapy.
- Post-ICU transition clinic.
- Addressing stuttering.
- Robotic-assisted knee replacement.
- Ask the Doctors UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Getting a flu shot is more important than ever.
- Community calendar Health and wellness for the community.
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Fall 2020
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Getting back to regular care.
- Q&A: Returning to a new normal.
- Emergency care for heart attack or stroke.
- Targeted brain therapy.
- Cancer care.
- Home dialysis.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Summer 2020
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Coping in a crisis UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Telehealth’s time has come.
- COVID-19.
- ATLAS project.
- Q&A: Extensivist Program.
- Proper masking.
- Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Exercise and older adults.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Spring 2020
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Pain management UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Public death, private grief.
- Music therapy in NICU.
- Mammography guidelines.
- Addressing COVID-19.
- Nuclear-medicine therapy.
- Ask the doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer reader’s questions: Why wash hands frequently?
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Winter 2020
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Hospitalists.
- Vaping.
- Genetic screening for cancer risk.
- Q&A: Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic.
- Cystic fibrosis advances.
- Cataract surgery.
- Knee replacement alternative: UCLA is among the first medical centers to offer a minimally invasive alternative to knee replacement surgery.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community
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Fall 2019
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Measles vaccine UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Treatment of severe epilepsy.
- MitraClip for heart failure patients.
- Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement surgery.
- Q&A: Wellness programs for patients with MS.
- Addressing women’s pelvic health concerns.
- Autism spectrum disorder.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Summer 2019
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Aspirin prescription UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Understanding miscarriage.
- Head and neck cancers.
- Vaccinations.
- Q&A: Early identification of autism spectrum.
- Anxiety treatment.
- Nutrition and cancer.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Spring 2019
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Personal EKG devices.
- Gambling-related problems.
- Facial reanimation.
- Reverse shoulder replacement.
- Q&A: Make correct food choices.
- LGBTQ+ health care.
- Cervical cancer screening.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Winter 2019
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Colon cancer screening.
- Rx to parents.
- High risk for breast cancer.
- Sports Cardiology Program.
- Q&A: CAR T-cell therapy.
- Beyond a runny nose.
- Epilepsy centers.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Fall 2018
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: Kids and ADHD UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Children with seizures.
- Robotic pancreatic surgery.
- Prescription regimen.
- Q&A: Advance care planning.
- Treatment for scar damage.
- The sound of healing.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Summer 2018
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Heart and lung rehab.
- Support for caretakers.
- Depression in older adults.
- Q&A: Focal therapy.
- Treatment for essential tremor.
- New colorectal cancer guidelines.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Spring 2018
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Sleep.
- Shingles vaccine.
- Home DNA testing.
- Q&A: Memory care.
- Egg freezing.
- Revascularization procedure.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Winter 2018
- What’s new at UCLA
- In your community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Stroke care.
- Gender health program.
- Postpartum depression.
- Q&A: Medical cannabis.
- Preventing HIV infection.
- Painful toe arthritis.
- Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Fall 2017
- What’s New at UCLA
- In Your Community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Chronic Pain.
- Mammography Screening.
- Pediatric Epilepsy.
- Q&A: Managing Online Life.
- Cancer Therapy and Heart Health.
- Fetal Heart Defects.
- Community Calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Summer 2017
- What’s New at UCLA
- In Your Community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Short-term Hormone Therapy.
- Prostate Cancer.
- Caregiving.
- Q&A: Ophthalmology.
- Peanut Allergy.
- Sprained Ankle.
- Community Calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Spring 2017
- What’s New at UCLA
- In Your Community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Men’s Health.
- Bone Metastasis.
- Lactation.
- Q&A: Infection Control.
- Adolescent Medicine.
- Dementia and Driving.
- Community Calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
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Winter 2017
- What’s New at UCLA
- In Your Community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
- Hip-Replacement Surgery.
- Nonsurgical Aortic-Valve Replacement.
- Concussion.
- Q&A: Back Pain.
- Prostate Cancer.
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.
- Community Calendar: Health and wellness for the community.