Formerly conjoined twins Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa
Quiej-Alvarez were flown back to UCLA on Thursday after suffering
medical setbacks in Guatemala.
The twins, who were once joined at the head, were taken to the
Mattel Children’s Hospital, where they had been cared for
after separation surgery in August 2002.

Rainstorms are the Pacific Ocean’s worst enemy ““
thousands of pounds of pollutants are washed into the Pacific Ocean
when it rains in Los Angeles.
The rainwater that falls from our rooftops and cars runs onto
city streets and is eventually collected into stormdrains.

Maria Teresa Quiej Alvarez, one of the formerly conjoined twins
separated at UCLA last year, has been upgraded from critical to
serious condition.
She was moved out of the intensive care unit at the Hospital del
Pilar in Guatemala City where she was being treated for E.

Maria Teresa Quiej Alvarez, one of the formerly conjoined twins
separated at UCLA last year, is in critical condition in a
Guatemalan hospital.
On April 15, doctors discovered a pump they inserted in her
skull had become infected with E.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a deadly flu-like virus, has
spread throughout the world with cases now being reported in over
13 countries.
The worldwide epidemic, which is believed to have started in
southern China, has reportedly infected 1,622 people since late
last year, and 58 people have died resulting from the virus,
according to the World Health Organization.

Avid computer gamers may be pleased to know the countless hours
they spend playing computer games can actually help them perform
better in school.
A study released from the Children’s Digital Media Center
at UCLA found the cognitive skills developed from playing computer
and video games can help people in areas of science and
technology.

If there was ever a medical dictionary of bad words, it would
have to include the word “Surgery”.
Last week, I found myself thinking constantly about the S-word.

Monday marked the official opening for the new Institute for
Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA.
The joint partnership between UCLA and NASA aims to develop a
“lab on a chip,” which would carry out the same complex
functions of a full-sized scientific lab on a tiny chip.

Do you have more than five registered e-mail addresses? How
about more than three AIM screen names? Does the acronym
“DC” remind you of a steady flow of current instead of
our nation’s capital?

The social impacts of the genetic revolution are closer than we
think, according to the UCLA Center for Society, the Individual and
Genetics.
A handful of genetics experts from around the world gathered in
front of over 350 people at UCLA’s Covel Commons last Sunday
to raise and explore these very questions about the future of
humans and genetics.