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2 weeks ago | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Mary-Rose Abraham
Every night around 8, the air quality sensor inside Los Angeles County Fire Station 3 registered an alarming spike. The late evening timing provided a major clue: firefighters were craving their after-dinner snack of popcorn. Popcorn burning on the stove would trigger the air quality monitor. Cooking can release harmful gases, particles and chemicals, a major source of indoor air pollution. Firefighters are already exposed to smoke and other toxins during a firefight.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Mary-Rose Abraham
Key takeaways Sometimes known as “Armenian disease,” familial Mediterranean fever is an inherited condition that particularly affects those of Armenian, Arab, Jewish, Turkish and other ethnic backgrounds originating in the Mediterranean region. Undiagnosed people may suffer for years from periodic abdominal pain, fever and painful inflammation in other parts of the body such as the joints and the chest.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
msn.com | Mary-Rose Abraham
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Mary-Rose Abraham
One of the hallmarks of aging is difficulty getting to sleep and staying asleep. On average, younger adults may wake up briefly five times a night. But some people over age 60 may wake up as many as 150 times while sleeping. Insomnia has far more serious consequences than feeling groggy in the morning—it can also lead to depression, with lack of sleep doubling the risk.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Mary-Rose Abraham
In her first year at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Katharina "Kat" Schmolly, MD, heard an old saying: "When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras." The medical maxim is a caution for physicians to prioritize likely causes rather than uncommon diagnoses. Dr. Schmolly, an undergraduate student of equine science and a former horse trainer, was on board. But she began to reconsider during a hepatology lecture by Simon W.
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May 8, 2024 | 
civileats.com | Mary-Rose Abraham
When I was a child in the 1980s, my family traveled nearly every summer from our home in Los Angeles to the other side of the world. We spent monsoon-drenched weeks on my grandparents’ farm in southern India’s Kerala state. On the last day of one of our trips, there was one final item to be packed. A housekeeper knelt under a towering 20-foot curry leaf tree and dug up one of the dozens of saplings at its base. She wrapped it in a wet towel and secured it in a plastic bag.
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May 7, 2024 | 
civileats.bluelena.io | Mary-Rose Abraham |Christina Cooke |Ruscena Wiederholt |Virginia Gewin
When I was a child in the 1980s, my family traveled nearly every summer from our home in Los Angeles to the other side of the world. We spent monsoon-drenched weeks on my grandparents’ farm in southern India’s Kerala state. On the last day of one of our trips, there was one final item to be packed. A housekeeper knelt under a towering 20-foot curry leaf tree and dug up one of the dozens of saplings at its base. She wrapped it in a wet towel and secured it in a plastic bag.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
uclahealth.org | Mary-Rose Abraham
In 1990, a global consortium of researchers embarked on one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors in history. The goal of the Human Genome Project was to determine the exact order of 3 billion bases, the building blocks that make up our DNA. Mapping this sequence was a painstaking effort. It took 13 years and about $3 billion for scientists to determine 92 percent of the human genome. But it required another two decades for full completion. Technology needed to catch up.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
uclahealth.org | Mary-Rose Abraham
When Mai Yamakawa, MD, downloaded single-cell genetic profiles from brains affected by Alzheimer’s disease, she and her colleagues began an intense search for a specific immune cell: the T lymphocyte. Previous research on mouse models and human spinal fluid hinted that they would find it. But parsing through data from human brain tissue required much more sophisticated and time-intensive analysis.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
uclahealth.org | Mary-Rose Abraham
The United States continues to experience an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, primarily due to opioids. The problem doesn’t just affect adults. Nearly 9,000 children and adolescents died between 1999 and 2016 from prescription and illicit opioid poisonings, with mortality rates tripling over those years. Most opioid-related hospitalizations and deaths among children are associated with legally obtained narcotics, such as medications prescribed by a physician.
