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Vital Signs

Summer 2023
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UCLA Health Vital Signs is a resource for your health, published four times a year to provide consumers with health news they can use.

Featured Story

Seven-year-old Leanna is checked in for her triweekly blood transfusion.
What happens to that unit of blood you just donated?
July 19, 2023
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Vital Signs Summer 2023
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Featured Articles

Portrait of an african young nurse helping old elderly disable man grandfather to walk using walker equipment in the bedroom. Senior patient of nursing home moving with walking frame and nurse support
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July 19, 2023
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Health care, fitness and weight loss. Child on analytical balance.
Updated guidelines urge pediatricians to take a more proactive approach to treat childhood obesity
July 19, 2023
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For kids to have the most fun in the sun, keep their skin safe
For kids to have the most fun in the sun, keep their skin safe
July 19, 2023
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Illustration: Maitreyee Kalaskar
More exercise is not necessarily better
July 19, 2023
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Graphic
Age to Start Colon Cancer Screening Lowered Following Increase Among Younger Adults
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