Imperial Valley News Center
Building tolerance to anxiety is key to OCD symptom relief
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- Written by Leigh Hopper
Los Angeles, California - Excessive hand washing, out of a fear of contamination or germs, is one of the most common and best-known examples of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. Though OCD can’t be “cured,” symptoms can be significantly reduced through cognitive-behavioral therapy, a type of psychotherapy.
UCLA has nation’s top graduate school for education, according to U.S. News and World Report
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- Written by Rebecca Kendall
Los Angeles, California - In its annual ranking of the top graduate schools, U.S News and World Report has listed six UCLA professional schools and graduate programs among the top five in the country. Among them are UCLA’s graduate school in education and UCLA’s clinical psychology program, both of which were named No. 1. Another seven UCLA graduate schools and programs are listed among the top 10, demonstrating the quality, reputation and breadth of graduate-level education at UCLA.
UCLA School of Nursing is launching Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program
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- Written by Laura Perry
Los Angeles, California - Responding to the evolving landscape of health care, the UCLA School of Nursing is introducing a new degree program - a Doctor of Nursing Practice, or DNP - to start in Fall 2018.
How California can break down barriers to breast cancer treatment
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- Written by Venetia Lai
Los Angeles, California - More than 29,000 women in California will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. Many of them - especially low-income women, who suffer the worst survival rates — will face economic, emotional and structural obstacles to getting treatment and follow-up care.
Quick Start Guide for Populating Mobile Test Devices
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- Written by NIST
Washington, DC - NIST is releasing a guide that describes procedures for documenting and populating test data on a mobile device before testing a mobile forensic tool—the recovery and interpretation of data found on digital devices is often part of a criminal or civil investigation. Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-202, Quick Start Guide for Populating Mobile Test Devices, is meant to be used with Federated Testing, an expansion of the Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) Program at NIST, which provides digital forensics investigators and labs with test materials for forensic tool testing. The goal of Federated Testing is to help digital forensics investigators to test tools used in their labs and to enable sharing of test results within the digital forensics community.
Mattress sellers stick buyers with misleading “USA” claim
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- Written by Lesley Fair - FTC
Washington, DC - Here’s the thing about nectar. It can be sweet, but sticky. People who paid Palo Alto-based Nectar Brand LLC for mattresses labeled “Designed and Assembled in the USA” thought they were getting a sweet deal. In fact, buyers were stuck with mattresses imported from China, already completed. The company, which also uses the names Nectar Sleep and DreamCloud, performed no assembly operations in the United States. Thus, the FTC’s complaint alleges that the company’s “Assembled in USA” claim is deceptive.
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