Vital Signs

Vital Signs Spring 2023 UCLA Health

Spring 2023

  • What’s new at UCLA.
  • Cancer care available in community clinics.
  • Pioneering protocol opens door to transplantation without need for antirejection medication.
  • Advocating for oneself important during pregnancy journey.
  • Increasing rate of adolescent depression tied to rise in social media.
  • Hybrid therapy becomes treatment of choice for select abdominal cancers.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Living with a pet is good medicine.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Winter 2023 UCLA Health

Winter 2023

  • What’s new at UCLA.
  • Baseline cardiac screening recommended for women
  • Women with silicone breast implants should have regular checkups.
  • Although less common than in adults, children can experience long COVID-19, too.
  • Over-the-counter hearing aids expand access for consumers.
  • Post-stroke comprehensive care vital to fullest recovery.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: The darker the better for a good night’s sleep.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • What’s new at UCLA.
  • The same medicine can come in different shapes and sizes.
  • UCLA pediatric heart-transplant program performs historic 500th procedure.
  • Program offers survivors of gynecologic cancers a place to heal after treatment.
  • It’s never too late to take measures to prevent falls.
  • Changes to daily aspirin recommendations for heart and stroke prevention.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: The health benefits of coffee.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness
     
Vital Signs Summer 2022

Summer 2022

  • What’s new at UCLA.
  • Keep babies safe at bedtime.
  • Understanding alopecia areata and its impacts.
  • Train properly to avoid weekendwarrior injuries.
  • How to talk to children after a traumatic event.
  • Nutrition to support brain health following a TBI.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Be open with your doctor.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
     
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Spring 2022

  • What’s new at UCLA.
  • Be aware how medications may affect blood pressure.
  • To improve nutrition, focus on the basics.
  • UCLA clinic encourages men to take a greater role in their ongoing health care.
  • Understanding of AIDS has come a long way since the disease first identified at UCLA.
  • Practicing mindfulness can help to relieve the stresses of difficult times.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: The soothing sound of music.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • Time to catch up on regular check-ups.
  • UCLA audiology storefront and clinic offers latest hearing-aid technology.
  • Sensory impairment and dementia risk: What’s the connection?
  • Q & A: Why a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine is needed.
  • UCLA Health offers gamechanging treatment for early-stage melanoma.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Medical-grade honey.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.

     
Vital Signs Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • COVID-19 shot is safe to administer with other vaccines.
  • MOMS clinic assists pregnant and postpartum women with mental health conditions.
  • COVID-19 vaccine can affect mammogram result, but in most cases it is not of concern.
  • Essential oils have gone mainstream.
  • VidaTalk app gives patients with communication challenges the ability to express their needs.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Peripheral artery disease.
  • Community calendar.
Vital Signs Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • What’s new at UCLA.
  • Preventing falls in older adults.
  • Injuries among young athletes are on the rise.
  • Advances in spine surgery open door to relief for more patients.
  • COVID-19 brought a year of loss to everyone.
  • To boost immunity, look to the gut.
  • Ask the Doctors UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Is no pain, no gain the best approach to exercise?
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.

     
Vital Signs Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: In-home COVID-19 testing.
  • Q&A: Return to normalcy following COVID-19 vaccine?
  • Pregnancy and the COVID-19 vaccine.
  • The pandemic and stress.
  • Keep up with child-wellness visits.
  • Advances in radiation therapy.
  • Ask the Doctors UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Exercise after recovering from COVID-19.
  • Community calendar Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Community cancer care.
  • Q&A: Child development in the time of COVID-19.
  • New CAR T-cell therapy.
  • Post-ICU transition clinic.
  • Addressing stuttering.
  • Robotic-assisted knee replacement.
  • Ask the Doctors UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Getting a flu shot is more important than ever.
  • Community calendar Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Getting back to regular care.
  • Q&A: Returning to a new normal.
  • Emergency care for heart attack or stroke.
  • Targeted brain therapy.
  • Cancer care.
  • Home dialysis.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
     
Vital Signs Summer 2020

Summer 2020

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Coping in a crisis UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Telehealth’s time has come.
  • COVID-19.
  • ATLAS project.
  • Q&A: Extensivist Program.
  • Proper masking.
  • Ask the Doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer readers’ questions: Exercise and older adults.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Spring 2020

Spring 2020

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Pain management UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Public death, private grief.
  • Music therapy in NICU.
  • Mammography guidelines.
  • Addressing COVID-19.
  • Nuclear-medicine therapy.
  • Ask the doctors: UCLA’s Drs. Eve Glazier and Elizabeth Ko answer reader’s questions: Why wash hands frequently?
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Hospitalists.
  • Vaping.
  • Genetic screening for cancer risk.
  • Q&A: Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic.
  • Cystic fibrosis advances.
  • Cataract surgery.
  • Knee replacement alternative: UCLA is among the first medical centers to offer a minimally invasive alternative to knee replacement surgery.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community
     
Vital Signs Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Measles vaccine UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Treatment of severe epilepsy.
  • MitraClip for heart failure patients.
  • Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement surgery.
  • Q&A: Wellness programs for patients with MS.
  • Addressing women’s pelvic health concerns.
  • Autism spectrum disorder.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Aspirin prescription UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Understanding miscarriage.
  • Head and neck cancers.
  • Vaccinations.
  • Q&A: Early identification of autism spectrum.
  • Anxiety treatment.
  • Nutrition and cancer.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
     
Vital Signs Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Personal EKG devices.
  • Gambling-related problems.
  • Facial reanimation.
  • Reverse shoulder replacement.
  • Q&A: Make correct food choices.
  • LGBTQ+ health care.
  • Cervical cancer screening.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.



     
Vital Signs Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Colon cancer screening.
  • Rx to parents.
  • High risk for breast cancer.
  • Sports Cardiology Program.
  • Q&A: CAR T-cell therapy.
  • Beyond a runny nose.
  • Epilepsy centers.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Fall 2018

Fall 2018

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: Kids and ADHD UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Children with seizures.
  • Robotic pancreatic surgery.
  • Prescription regimen.
  • Q&A: Advance care planning.
  • Treatment for scar damage.
  • The sound of healing.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Summer 2018

Summer 2018

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Heart and lung rehab.
  • Support for caretakers.
  • Depression in older adults.
  • Q&A: Focal therapy.
  • Treatment for essential tremor.
  • New colorectal cancer guidelines.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Sleep.
  • Shingles vaccine.
  • Home DNA testing.
  • Q&A: Memory care.
  • Egg freezing.
  • Revascularization procedure.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • What’s new at UCLA
  • In your community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Stroke care.
  • Gender health program.
  • Postpartum depression.
  • Q&A: Medical cannabis.
  • Preventing HIV infection.
  • Painful toe arthritis.
  • Community calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Fall 2017

Fall 2017

  • What’s New at UCLA
  • In Your Community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Chronic Pain.
  • Mammography Screening.
  • Pediatric Epilepsy.
  • Q&A: Managing Online Life.
  • Cancer Therapy and Heart Health.
  • Fetal Heart Defects.
  • Community Calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Summer 2017

Summer 2017

  • What’s New at UCLA
  • In Your Community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Short-term Hormone Therapy.
  • Prostate Cancer.
  • Caregiving.
  • Q&A: Ophthalmology.
  • Peanut Allergy.
  • Sprained Ankle.
  • Community Calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Spring 2017

Spring 2017

  • What’s New at UCLA
  • In Your Community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Men’s Health.
  • Bone Metastasis.
  • Lactation.
  • Q&A: Infection Control.
  • Adolescent Medicine.
  • Dementia and Driving.
  • Community Calendar: Health and wellness for the community.
Vital Signs Winter 2017

Winter 2017

  • What’s New at UCLA
  • In Your Community: UCLA offers services and support near you.
  • Hip-Replacement Surgery.
  • Nonsurgical Aortic-Valve Replacement.
  • Concussion.
  • Q&A: Back Pain.
  • Prostate Cancer.
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.
  • Community Calendar: Health and wellness for the community.