Imperial Valley News Center
Early childhood incarceration is linked to high rates of severe physical and mental health issues in adulthood
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- Written by Ryan Hatoum
Los Angeles, California - When children are placed in juvenile detention centers, jails or prisons before their teenage years, they are much more likely to experience serious physical and mental health issues as adults, according to a new study by UCLA researchers.
Three UCLA schools expand scholarship funds with gift from Milton Stark estate
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- Written by Ariel Okamoto
Los Angeles, California - A $2 million gift left by actor Milton Stark will support students in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The contribution expands the existing Judith and Milton R. Stark Scholarship, increasing annual distributions up to 10 times the amount it awarded previously.
Genes in songbirds hold clues about human speech disorders
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- Written by Stuart Wolpert
Los Angeles, California - Insights into how songbirds learn to sing provide promising clues about human speech disorders and may lead to new ways of treating them, according to new research published in the journal eLife.
UCLA-designed program helps former inmates with HIV maintain health after release from jail
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- Written by Enrique Rivero
Los Angeles, California - After years of public health efforts, health care at the Los Angeles County Jail has significantly improved, and the facility now typically provides full access to treatment for inmates who have HIV - including medications that keep their disease in check.
Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around stars, which are good indicators of exoplanets.
Scientists report first results from CUORE neutrino experiment
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - This week, an international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, is reporting the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one of physics’ most fundamental questions: Why is our universe made mostly of matter?
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