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  • 01-examNew Minimally Invasive Procedure May Offer Alternative to Knee Replacement Surgery
  • Dr. Abbas Ardhali greets Miriam and Louie Merianos in a follow-up appointment at UCLA Health. Dr. Ardehali led a team that performed a successful double lung transplant on Miriam, whose complicated case was denied by more than 20 other transplant programsWoman Receives Double Lung Transplant After Being Turned Away from Over 20 Hospitals
  • Mary Crawford plays with her 3-year-old son, John Michael, using a therapy method designed to close developmental gaps and improve signs of autism early in life. A clinical trial allows Mary to implement the therapy at her home in Arkansas while working with therapists at UCLA via recorded play sessions and telemedicine.Telemedicine-aided therapy helps parents of children with developmental disorders, including autism
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    New Minimally Invasive Procedure May Offer Alternative to Knee Replacement Surgery

    Outpatient technique shows promise in reducing pain and increasing mobility in arthritis sufferers
  • Dr. Abbas Ardhali greets Miriam and Louie Merianos in a follow-up appointment at UCLA Health. Dr. Ardehali led a team that performed a successful double lung transplant on Miriam, whose complicated case was denied by more than 20 other transplant programs

    Woman Receives Double Lung Transplant After Being Turned Away from Over 20 Hospitals

    She was deemed too “high risk” for surgery but the transplant team at UCLA accepted the challenge of treating her
  • Mary Crawford plays with her 3-year-old son, John Michael, using a therapy method designed to close developmental gaps and improve signs of autism early in life. A clinical trial allows Mary to implement the therapy at her home in Arkansas while working with therapists at UCLA via recorded play sessions and telemedicine.

    Telemedicine-aided therapy helps parents of children with developmental disorders, including autism

    Parents and therapists collaborate to customize therapy to advance social skills
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    Novel Brain Implant Restores Visual Perception to the Blind

    With wireless device, patients can detect motion, distinguish light and dark
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Study: Adding Targeted Therapy to Standard Treatment Helps Women Live Longer with Breast Cancer
Survival rates improved significantly among younger women with advanced disease

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Lullaby-Playing Pacifier Helps Premature Babies Thrive
 Special pacifier plays songs recorded by babies’ parents to help newborns develop skills for feeding, grow stronger

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New Therapies Cut Seizures in People with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
A full-service epilepsy center can tailor the right treatment to each patient

The ChatterBaby app analyzes a baby`s cry to help deaf and hearing impaired parents identify the baby`s needs. Developed at UCLA Semel Institute, the app can determine if a child is crying because they`re in pain with 90 percent accuracy. It can also distinguish cries associated with hunger and general fussiness.

App Tells New and Deaf Parents When And Why Their Baby Is Crying
The ChatterBaby app uses machine learning to analyze babies’ cries

Vertice Boyce (left) looks at family photos with Eva Maldonado (right), the mother of her donor, Berto Maldonado. The recipient of a kidney transplant in 2015, Berto Maldonado died in a car accident in July 2017, and his family re-donated, or “re-gifted” his organ. The re-transplantation, an extremely rare procedure, was made possible by transplant surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Veale at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. His family says Berto would have wanted to give someone else the same second chance at life he received.

Rare Transplant Procedure Could Save Lives, Change Field
“Re-gifting” Kidneys Gives Hope to Those in Need of Donation

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First-of-its-Kind Effort to Voluntarily Screen College Students for Depression
UCLA screening is part of a landmark effort to ease nation’s mental health burden

Matthew Flesock instructs eighth-grader, Priscilla Aguinaga, as she exercises on a spin bike. Priscilla has a new love of fitness after finding activities she enjoys with the help of the UCLA Health Sound Body Sound Mind program.

Winning the Battle Against Childhood Obesity One School at a Time
A fitness program that helps students in underserved communities shows strong results

UCLA Health’s Mobile Stroke Unit brings the hospital to the patient so doctors can make a diagnosis quickly and start treatment as soon as possible.

National Study Aims to Prove Value of Mobile Stroke Units
High-tech vehicles bring the hospital to patients to improve outcomes and efficiency

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Tackling Medical Mysteries with Next-Generation Testing
“Exome sequencing” is faster, more cost-effective than genetic testing

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Programa de formación orientado a médicos inmigrantes para ayudar a reducir los déficits más importantes en la sanidad
Para millones de personas que viven en zonas críticamente desatendidas, los médicos inmigrantes son garantía de vida

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Program Trains Immigrant Doctors to Help Bridge Major Gaps in Care
For millions who live in critically underserved areas, immigrant doctors are life-savers

A technician calibrates a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) machine during a therapy session at UCLA Health. Bob Holmes, of Los Angeles, is being treated with TMS for depression, but experts at UCLA want to study the therapy to see if it can be an effective alternative to opioids for patients with chronic pain.

Battling the Terrible Toll of Depression by “Rewiring” the Brain
Magnetic brain stimulation could be tested as possible treatment for wide range of issues

Cyndi Ramirez (right) and her daughter visit with their mother and grandmother, who has dementia. Cyndi helps take care of her mother and attended the Alzheimer’s Caregiver Bootcamp at UCLA Health to develop her skills as a caregiver.

Younger Generations Now Forced to Care for Alzheimer’s Patients
Caregiver ‘boot camp’ provides the knowledge they need for the challenges ahead

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Oldest Living Kidney Donor-Recipient Pair Celebrates 50 Years
Father and daughter use anniversary to urge more to become donors

Justin Cho, 9, recently underwent a surgical procedure to cure him of “giggling epilepsy.” For years, he experienced giggling fits that turned out to be seizures from gelastic epilepsy caused by a benign mass deep in his brain. Doctors at UCLA successfully neutralized the mass, curing Cho of his epilepsy.

Child’s Laughing Fits Turned Out to be Serious Signs of a Brain Mass
Doctors perform new surgery to destroy lesion, cure boy’s “giggling epilepsy”

Basilio Santangelo (left) and Paul Diaz (right) high five as they pass in the hallway at The Men’s Clinic at UCLA. Along with another friend, they made appointments to get vasectomies on the same day so they could recuperate together while watching sport

At Their Wives’ Request, Three Friends Get Vasectomies in Solidarity
Three couples, each with two children, choose vasectomies as birth control

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Growing Group of Women Take Heart in Pregnancy Recommendations
New advice will help women with congenital heart defects navigate pregnancy

Brian Gomez works on building his arm strength during a therapy session at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. After being paralyzed in an accident in 2011, Gomez became one of the first patients in the world to have an experimental stimulator implanted near the damaged area of his spine in an effort to help him regain partial use of his hands.

Stimulator Bypasses Spine Injury, Helps Patients Move Hands
Experimental treatment improves grip, finger motion up to 300 percent in quadriplegics

Dr. Christopher Giza examines Kennedy Dierk, 14, at the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSport Clinic. A new survey shows most parents rely on outdated advice when caring for kids with concussions.

How You Could Be Making Your Kid’s Concussion Worse
Survey: Most parents rely on outdated advice that can prolong symptoms, cause emotional distress

Howard Broadman poses with his grandson Quinn in Laguna Niguel, CA. Broadman is the first patient in history to donate a kidney to a stranger now, with the guarantee that his grandson will get a kidney whenever he needs one in the future - without having to go onto a donor wait list.

Voucher Allows You To Donate A Kidney Now, Secure One For Later
Donation today ensures loved one will get a kidney when he/she needs one

David Liebeskind, MD, professor of neurology, Director of Outpatient Stroke and Neurovascular Programs and Director of the Neurovascular Imaging Research Core at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, says the number of strokes in younger patients is on the rise, but their awareness of the urgency for treatment is lagging.

Survey Finds Most Young People Experiencing The Signs Of A Stroke Would Put Off Going To The E.R.
Strokes in those under 45 are up by much as 53%, treatment within first 3 hours is crucial

After surviving an Improvised Explosive Device attack during combat, Iraq War veteran Bobby Henline undergoes treatment with Dr. Timothy Miller through UCLA Operation Mend Program. Henline suffered severe burns that cover 40% of his body. Founded in 2007, the program provides medical treatment for wounded warriors who were injured during combat operations. To learn more click here: bit.ly/1EThwtV

Operation Mend Helps War Veteran Turn Injuries Into Comedy
Veteran takes stage to celebrate freedom, inspire and heal

Joey Juarez, right, talks with his father Jose on the campus of UCLA. Joey has autism and recently completed a 16-week intervention course designed to help him with social interactions. The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) is offered through UCLA`s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and is the only such intervention clinically proven to work. Part of the program`s success may be due to the involvement of parents, who are also taught how to coach their young adult children with autism to ensure continued improvement. To learn more about the intervention, click here: bit.ly/1IVV0PL

Social Intervention Helps Adults With Autism
Experts who created the first social skills program that has shown significant results in a clinical trial offer social tips for those with autism

A rare condition left Rachel Pyne with dizzy spells and an extreme sensitivity to sound. Pyne not only struggled with noises like television volume, but could actually hear internal bodily functions like her heart beating and eyes moving. Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center diagnosed Pyne with tiny holes in her inner ears and performed high-tech surgery to repair them. To learn more about her condition and treatment, click here: bit.ly/1EThwtV

Woman Can Hear Heart, Stomach And Even Her Eyes Move
Condition caused by tiny holes in bone encasing inner ear; medical team uses state-of-the-art technology to plug them

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Walking, Waving Veteran Of Gold Country Brings His Cause To Big Apple
Vietnam Vet Walks to Raise Funds for Wounded Warriors