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...have Actisite and other new treatments not been approved for general use in the U.S.? "The FDA is burdened with life-or-death priorities like AIDS and cancer," says Michael Newman, a professor of periodontics at the UCLA School of Dentistry. "Dental products are low on the totem pole." Other dental researchers wonder whether acceptance of the therapies is being delayed by periodontists who don't want to lose part of their lucrative oral-surgery practice. "European countries are definitely more receptive," Loesche says. "Part of it is that they don't have a strong periodontal establishment...
...Globe reported that Lewis flew to Los Angeles for a third opinion and that one of the doctors he consulted, Dr. William G. Stevenson of UCLA Medical Center, agreed with Mudge's diagnosis...
...Nine activists begin hunger strike to force UCLA to establish Chicano studies department. Strike ends June 7 after UCLA gives Chicano- studies program more power...
Some social scientists argue that there is nothing wrong with increased sexual expression among teens. "Feeling, thinking and being sexual is an endemic part of being a teenager," says UCLA psychologist Paul Abramson. "Let's say a couple has paired off, wants to be monogamous and uses condoms. I'd say that's a legitimate part of their sexual expression as a couple...
...particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather. Barbara Humberger of Austin began going native in 1989 after an unusual cold spell killed many of the nonnative shrubs that surrounded her lakeside home. Her property shimmers with blackfoot daisies that bloom from early spring until the first fall frost. UCLA neurologist Andrew Charles wanted an attractive but drought-resistant cover for the steep hillside behind his house. His solution was to plant deep-rooted California lilacs punctuated by the orchid-like blossoms of sticky monkey flowers...