Simple, reliable reactions that 'click' molecules together garner chemistry Nobel
A new, convenient type of chemistry developed over the past two decades has been honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, and Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, share the award for “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced at a press conference this morning . Sharpless “started the ball rolling. Around the year 2000, he coined the concept of click chemistry, which is a form of simple and reliable chemistry, ...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 5, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

UC Health wraps $15M facelift as part of $221M campus revamp
A key project at UC Medical Center is now complete.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Liz Engel Source Type: news

Mother-of-two, 54, said she was left looking like 'ET' and suicidal after a botched £17,000 facelift
Shirley Ridley, 54, from Middlesbrough, forked out £13,000 to have a face lift procedure with cosmetic surgeon Sultan Hassan but said she was left looking like an alien and in excruciating pain.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Almost everything Tucker Carlson said about Anthony Fauci this week was misleading or false
Tucker Carlson, a political commentator on Fox News, has long assailed Anthony Fauci for his role in the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic during both former President Donald Trump’s and President Joe Biden’s administrations. But on 22 August, when Fauci announced he would be retiring from his jobs as director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical adviser to the president at the end of year, the Tucker Carlson Tonight host laid into him like never before. Carlson asserted Fauci had committed “very serious crimes” and said he “app...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 25, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

NSF Director visits the world ’s largest experimental earthquake infrastructure facility
LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Today, U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan met with staff and students from the University of California San Diego, local officials and industry partners to observe and discuss research investments …
Source: NSF News - July 1, 2022 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news

St. Elizabeth Florence to get $90M facelift; its 'most ambitious' expansion to date
An expansion effort at a Greater Cincinnati hospital is kicking into high gear.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 30, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Liz Engel Source Type: news

Namibia: Central Hospital Cardiac Unit Gets Facelift
[New Era] Paediatrician Solly Amadhila said most of what demoralises young medical professionals is the lack of consumables at health facilities, which leaves them powerless when it comes to aiding patients.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Why are young women risking permanent damage with 'fox-eye facelifts'?
Young British women are risking their health and wellbeing by paying £500 for a controversial non-surgical facelift which can leave them suffering long term damage, despite being billed as 'pain free'.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Biden Pivots to Home Tests to Confront Omicron Surge
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting the omicron variant surging through the country, President Joe Biden announced the government will provide 500 million free rapid home-testing kits, increase support for hospitals under strain and redouble vaccination and boosting efforts. At the White House on Tuesday, Biden detailed major changes to his COVID-19 winter plan, his hand forced by the fast-spreading variant, whose properties are not yet fully understood by scientists. Yet his message was clear that the winter holidays could be close to normal for the vaccinated while potentially dangerous for the unvaccinated. His pleas are n...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AP/ JOSH BOAK, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and COLLEEN LONG Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

2021 reflections: In an amazing year of achievements, nothing topped the return to campus
As we approach the end of December, it ’s a natural time to look back at the year that was. In 2021, UCLA welcomed students, faculty, staff, alumni and visitors back to our home in Westwood, though of course it wasn’t exactly the way things had been.Different from pre-pandemic times: Masks remain present. Better (much better): UCLA officially opened the Black Bruin Resource Center.Even with all the changes, UCLA persisted as a force for public good, guided by our mission of teaching, research and service. In the past year,  professors continued helping us better understand our world with their research, students kept ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 17, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

New vaccine ingredient shows promise
Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have found a possible way to improve the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines - and any vaccine. Their new research, published in Science Immunology, shows that a "combination" adjuvant called a saponin/TLR agonist may boost the protective power of vaccines.
Source: World Pharma News - December 8, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Events Source Type: news

Dermatology practice unveils 'significant' facelift at longtime Kenwood facility: PHOTOS
Mona Dermatology in Kenwood has received a significant facelift as the medical and cosmetic practice aims to improve patient care.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - November 22, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Liz Engel Source Type: news

San Diego scientists work on a vaccine against all coronaviruses. Yes, all of them
Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology received $2.6 million as part of a larger effort to develop protective shots against past, present and future coronaviruses.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jonathan Wosen Source Type: news

Nobel prize in medicine awarded to US duo for work on sense of touch
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian share 10m-kronor prize for discovery of receptors for temperature and touchTwo US researchers have won the 2021 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for work that unlocked the secrets of the sense of touch.Prof David Julius, a physiologist at the University of California in San Francisco, and Prof Ardem Patapoutian, a neuroscientist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, were honoured for their discovery of receptors in the skin that sense heat, cold and touch – making them crucial for survival. The work paves the way for a range of new medical treatments for conditions such as c...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 4, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Science Nobel prizes Neuroscience Health World news Science prizes Society People in science Medical research US news Biology Source Type: news

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