Formerly conjoined twins Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej
Alvarez left for Guatemala yesterday after their seven-month stay
at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital following
separation surgery last August.

According to a recent study, even a single drink of alcohol is
enough to impair someone’s ability to reason quickly and
detect errors. Volunteers in the study were given drinks and then
given a computer test that required quick thinking and instinctive
reasoning.

Engineers at UCLA have combined engineering with the
mathematical field of geometry to design smaller, more diverse
antennas.
UCLA electrical engineering chairman, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, and
Ph.D.

A recent study by UCLA Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biology
Jay Phelan concluded that biracial people are perceived as more
attractive than “uniracial” people because they have
more symmetric features.

Formerly conjoined twins Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa had
their expected trip home delayed because of “wound-care
issues,” according to hospital officials.
The girls were expected to fly home to Guatemala this week, but
doctors at Mattel Children’s Hospital are keeping Maria de
Jesus hospitalized to allow more time to recover from surgery to
clean and close her scalp incisions.

Edward Tobinick, assistant clinical professor of medicine at
UCLA, recently received a patent for his new method for fighting
neurological diseases and related disorders.
Tobinick’s method uses therapeutic agents produced through
recombinant DNA technology that inhibits the action of certain
natural molecules in the body, called cytokines.

UCLA employee Tim Alexander was born with pectus excavatum, a
deformity also known as “sunken” or
“concave” chest.
Although he was initially advised against corrective surgery
when he was younger, Alexander, now 32 years old, was able to take
advantage of a new technique developed by UCLA professor of surgery
Eric Fonkulsrud.

Panim el Panim, part of Bruins for Israel, a student
organization that says its goal is to educate students and faculty
about the situation in the Middle East, organized a panel of three
Israeli students Tuesday evening at Kerckhoff Hall.

A group of panelists discussed how correctional facilities
respond to sexual activity, HIV and the issues faced by people
after incarceration who have HIV or AIDS, Monday, at the UCLA
School of Law.

Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa Quiej Alvarez, twins formerly
conjoined at the head, continue to improve and could return to
their home country of Guatemala some time in October, doctors
said.