President Trump’s budget proposal generated headlines and consternation across the nation. It also created opportunities for those facing cutbacks to tell their story and advocate for funding. One of our clients, LA BioMed, is featured in today’s LA Times’ column by Steve Lopez because of the potential loss of critical funding for its research. The
Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign faced the potential of derailing her recent election gains when she went off script and mistakenly praised former first lady Nancy Reagan for her “low-key advocacy” for combating the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Clinton made the laudatory comments in an interview after Reagan’s death, prompting an immediate outcry from
The celebration of a new clinic to provide rehabilitative services to people suffering with COPD drew a big crowd, including LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, leaders in the COPD community and media. The new clinic is especially great news because it is the first in the area to offer rehabilitative services to people who don’t
Dr. Michael Yeaman, an LA BioMed researcher who’s helping develop a vaccine against the “superbug” MRSA, is interviewed on KNX News Radio’s Spotlight on superbugs, an hour-long special broadcast on the region’s only all-news radio station. KNX reaches more than 1 million listeners a week. To hear the broadcast, please click here.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center’s report that more than 100 patients were exposed to the Superbug CRE and two have died from infections caused by the CRE exposure triggered new interest in the development of a vaccine for another Superbug, MRSA, by researchers at our client, LA BioMed. KNBC-TV aired this story about the vaccine’s
With the recent measles outbreak rekindling the immunization debate, we wanted to share a report from one of our clients about an easy way to improve vaccination rates. Dr. Sylvia Yeh, an LA BioMed lead researcher, reports a 69% increase in vaccination rates among mothers of newborns when a hospital made a simple change in
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