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But now, a team at UCLA has figured out a new way to help people with voice disorders speak, no hands required … This is a type of patch that sticks directly to the skin on the throat. They published their research in the journal Nature Communications last week. Pregnant women who lived near the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility during and after its 2015 blowout had a higher chance of premature births and low-weight newborns compared to women from other communities, according to the findings of UCLA researchers studying the effects of the massive gas leak on nearby residents’ health. Nearly half of American prisons are located downstream from water sources that are likely contaminated with cancer-linked forever chemicals, a new study has found … If you think of the incarcerated population as a city spread out over this vast archipelago of carceral facilities, it would be the fifth largest city in the country, senior author Nicholas Shapiro, a medical anthropologist the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a statement. A new study from UCLA has discovered that people who tend to snack after meals may also have the same brain cells as mice. In a mouse study, UCLA researchers tested a vaccine against the bacterium that causes melioidosis and found it was highly protective against the disease, which is endemic in many tropical areas, causing approximately 165,000 cases with 89,000 fatalities around the world each year. The Sandy Hook case opened up one of the exceptions to the federal immunity law, and as a result, there’s been increased interest in using that exception to hold gunmakers liable, said Adam Winkler, a professor at the UCLA School of Law who studies constitutional law and gun policy. Alicia Virani, a UCLA Law professor who founded a program to connect her students with clients in need of representation in bail hearings, praised the new rules as a step in the right direction. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, an archaeologist at UCLA and director of the Easter Island Statue Project, told Live Science in an email that this research contributes new information to the ongoing discussion of Rapa Nui prehistory. There is generally a lunar eclipse every six months, according to Jean-Luc Margot, a professor of planetary astronomy at UCLA. These types of eclipses are very difficult to detect, Margot said. I would encourage the public to watch the other lunar eclipses or the solar eclipse. But Ortega and Fee are two of an estimated 5.8 million Californians in high-risk heat industries, including indoor and outdoor workers, according to a map of national heat safety standards from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Many are low-wage workers, who are five times more likely to be injured on the job due to heat than high-income workers, according to a 2021 study led by UCLA that examined 18 years of California workers’ compensation data.
