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Can LSD Cure Depression?

Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Johns Hopkins University, UCLA Medical Center, Health Post50, Psilocybin, Charles Grob, Hallucinogens, Lsd, Ucla, Fifty News

Janeen Delany describes herself as an "old hippie" who has smoked plenty of marijuana. But she never really dabbled in hallucinogens -- until two year...

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Latino Health: An Unsolved Mystery

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Longevity, Latino Health, Nih, Infant Mortality, Health Research, National Institutes of Health, Latino Health Paradox, Latino Voices News

Jonah Garcia is a social worker with what may be one of the toughest gigs in the country. Garcia is a program director at La Clinica de Familia Do...

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Is 'Carmageddon' Just A Bunch Of Hype?

AP | JOHN ROGERS and DAISY NGUYEN | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Traffic, UCLA Medical Center, Celebrity Twitter, 405 Freeway Closure, Carmageddon, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — The alarms have been sounded and the preparations have been made. Now, only two questions remain: Will "Carmageddon," the shutdow...

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Death Panels Real and Imagined

Wendell Potter | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Leukemia, Ipab, Phil Gingrey, Death Panels, Sarah Palin, Nataline Sarkisyan, Health Care Reform, Mercedes-Benz, Affordable Care Act, Congress, Cigna, Medicare, Health Care, California Nurses Association, Obamacare, Politics News

The closest thing to real death panels that operate in this country are not run by a bunch of government bureaucrats but by a bunch of corporate bureaucrats who work deep inside U.S. insurance companies.

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Death Panels: Fact and Fiction

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, UCLA Medical Center, House of Representatives, Senate, Congress, Preexisting Condition, Palin Death Panels, Kathleen Sebelius, Death Panels, Nataline Sarkisyan, Cigna, Medicare, Aetna, Health Care Reform, Politics News

Yes, death panels do exist. They exist inside the big health insurance corporations that every day make decisions on whether or not people enrolled in their health benefit plans will get the care their doctors believe might save their lives.

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Putting the 'Care' Back in Health Care -- the UCLA Transformation

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Health Care Reform, Hospitals, Ucla, Healthcare, Health, Home News

When I firsthand experienced their caring and learned that UCLA Health System's mission is "seeking to heal humankind, one patient at a time" I needed to hear more.

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In Search of the Moderate Muslim: It Takes an Ummah

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ka'aba, Arab World, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Islam, Abraham, Taliban, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Politics, Jihad, Dr. Qanta Ahmed, Madrid, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Ummah, The Daily Beast, Monotheism, UCLA Medical Center, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Koran, Thomas Friedman, Luxor, Madinah, Dr. Alon Avidan, People of the Book, Judaism, Terrorism, Pakistan, Makkah, In the Land of Invisible Women, Bali, Al Qaeda, Dr. Joan Kirschenbaum Cohn, Qur'An, Rabbi Avner Bergman, Counterterrorism, Yorkshire, Prophet Mohammed, Herat, Leslie Gelb, Mumbai Attacks, Religion and Politics, Rawalpindi, Israel, New York Times, Muslim, Jahaliyat, Moderate Muslim, There Are No Moderate Muslims, Moderate Muslims, Moderate Muslims Call, In Searc of Ummah Muslim, Call to Moderate Muslims, Muslims, Sunni Islam, In Search of the Moderate Muslim Huffington Post, Moderate Ummah, Dr Ahmed Huffington Post Article, Jew, Muhammad Settles Dispute Between Jew and Muslim, Religion News

Until moderate Muslims find each other, 'find the other hand,' and start a global response, nothing less than a cacophony of figurative clapping, we will remain as we are now: voiceless.

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Tadamasa Goto's Liver Transplant Profiled: How Yakuza Boss Got New Liver At UCLA (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tadamasa, Lara Logan, Ucla Ethics, UCLA Medical Center, Crime, Organ Donation, Ucla, Organ Transplants, Ucla Medical Center Ethics, Fbi, Goto, Tokyo, 60 Minutes, Yakuza Liver Transplants, John Gotti, Mob, Yakuza, Japan, Health Care, Tadamasa Goto, World News

On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Betw...

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Our Health Care System Needs More Than Just Fixing

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Dying, Surgery, Children, Children's Health Insurance, Health, Health Care Reform, Sicko, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Children's Health, Healthcare, Politics News

Our health care system doesn't need to be fixed, because it wasn't working. Our health care system needs a complete systemic make over.

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My Opinion: Michael Jackson's Grave (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, UCLA Medical Center, Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Michael Jackson Burial Site, Westwood Memorial Park, Ucla, Merv Griffin, Michael Jackson Grave, Farrah Fawcett, Donna Reed, Michael Jackson Death, Entertainment News

Michael Jackson's life has always been a contradiction of outlandish oddity and pinpoint perfection. Now in death, with the unknown location of his body, the enigma continues.

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The Day the '80s Died

Derek Henry Flood | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Michael Jackson, TMZ TV, tmz.com, Harvey Levin, Michael Jackson Dies, Los Angeles, Pop Culture, Death of the 80s, Death of the 80's, Entertainment News

It has been thirty years since the 1980's began with the death of disco and a frowning Ayatollah Khomeni returning to Tehran and embarrassing President Jimmy Carter with his arduous hostage standoff.

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Ex-UCLA Worker Pleads Guilty To Selling Celebrity Medical Records

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britney Spears, Farrah Fawcett, UCLA Medical Center, Maria Shriver, Lawanda Jackson, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — A former employee of UCLA Medical Center pleaded guilty Monday to selling information from the medical records of celebrities and ...

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Celebrity Medical Records In Massive UCLA Breach

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, California Department of Public Health, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — More than 120 workers at a Los Angeles hospital looked at celebrities' medical records and other personal information without perm...

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Justin Chambers Talks About Sleep Disorder, Is Photographed Unconscious At Bar

People, Star | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Grey's Anatomy, Justin Chambers Sleep Disorder, Justin Chambers, Entertainment News

"Grey's Anatomy" heartthrob Justin Chamber checked into UCLA's psych ward in January to treat his sleep disorder. And although he was recently photogr...

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Britney Spears Gets Hospital Workers Fired

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britney Spears, UCLA Medical Center, Britney Spears Hospitalized, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — UCLA Medical Center will fire some employees and discipline others for snooping at the confidential medical records of Britney Spe...

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Britney's Life In The Hospital: A Padded Room & Cigarette Breaks

People | Julie Dam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Britney Spears Hospitalized, Britney Spears, Entertainment News

Britney Spears's 72-hour psychiatric hold at the UCLA Medical Center has expired as of Sunday morning - but the singer is still hospitalized. Legal a...

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'Grey's' Star Justin Chambers Checked Into UCLA Psych Ward For Sleep Disorder

TMZJu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Gery's Anatomy, Justin Chambers, UCLA Psych Ward, Entertainment News

TMZ has learned actor Justin Chambers, Dr. Alex Karev on "Grey's Anatomy," checked himself in to the psych ward at UCLA Medical Center this week. Yes,...

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Britney Spears Rushed To Hospital, Put In Mental Hold

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Britney Committed, Britney Spears Committed, Britney Spears Breakdown, Britney Spears Hospitalized, Britney Spears, Britney Hospitalized, Britney Breakdown, Entertainment News

Update: Britney spent her first day in a mental hold with her parents, and requested a meal from In-N-Out Burger. Meanwhile, her new therapist has bee...

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