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• Age, Other Illnesses May Make Prostate Cancer Treatment Unnecessary

  such as erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence and bowel problems, explained researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ). They found that older patients with slower growing forms of prostate cancer who have at least three other   Read more »

• Study Claims Marijuana Tied to Lower Bladder Cancer Risk

  in San Diego .Dr. Karim Chamie, an assistant professor of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles , took issue with the fact that every man in the study smoked something, so there was no comparison to men   Read more »

• Inventor, entrepreneur Stanley A. Dashew dies at 96

  peace. They helped build the Rita and Stanley Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars at the University of California, Los Angeles .Born Sept. 16, 1916, in Harlem, Dashew and his family moved from there to Rockland County where his father practiced   Read more »

• Common Heart Meds May Boost Recovery From Non-Cardiac Surgeries

  spokesman for the American Heart Association and a professor of cardiovascular medicine and science at the University of California, Los Angeles .Some trials and observational studies have shown that use of beta blockers reduces this cardiovascular risk, whereas   Read more »

• Smog Exposure During Pregnancy Might Raise Child's Cancer Risk: Study

  likelihood of developing certain childhood cancers, California researchers say.Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health collected data on children diagnosed with cancer before the age of 6 and local traffic exposure.   Read more »

Around the web

• Plastic ocean debris the target of new Calif. bill

  energy portfolio standards, solid waste reduction, water conservation," said Mark Gold, associate director of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. "What happens in California matters both nationally and 18 m ago from Sify Read more »

• Storm reshapes roster to compete without Sue Bird, Lauren Jackson

  website or in commercials leading up to the league's opening on Friday. The Storm opens its season Sunday at Los Angeles. Seattle is disregarded in preseason predictions. Even the team's fans wonder if there is much to cheer for or even show up and watch at 5/23/13 from The Seattle Times Read more »

• Baseball. No. 8 UCLA Baseball Wraps Up Regular Season at Stanford

  seventh in the nation with his 17 saves and has gotten the save in UCLA's last four games. TUESDAY RECAP The Bruins closed out the regular season home schedule on Tuesday night with a 2-1 win over UC Santa Barbara. Freshman Cody Poteet allowed just one run 5/23/13 from UCLA Athletics Read more »

• Snoop Lion's son gets scholarship offer from LSU

  prospect Cordell Broadus has a snared himself a new scholarship offer to go along with previous offers from California, Duke, Oregon State, Southern Cal, UCLA, Washington and Tennessee. LSU is the latest school to put an offer on the table. So why is this   from USA Today Read more »

• Honeymoon was short for UCLA Bruins' new coach

  and nine days after the comments he made after his much-anticipated introduction at UCLA had drawn criticism from Los Angeles to Iowa City. And to at least one person closely involved in the case, it was too little too late. Jerry Crawford, an attorney who   from The News & Observer Read more »