Feb 12, 2012 | 09:43
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Jun 15, 2010
Verbatim — chocolate, Internet romance, health coverage, youth concussions and the NBA
UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of subjects. Here is a recent selection.
“This is exactly the type of situation that health care reform is intended to eliminate.” – Gerald Kominski, professor of public health and associate director of the Center for Health Policy Research in a June 13 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin article. Kominski was referring to health insurance companies that cancel policies based on claims that their clients have misrepresented medical information on applications.
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"Dating has become more difficult today for a lot of reasons, with people increasingly afraid of being rejected.”– Carole Lieberman, clinical professor of psychiatry and author of a book on relationships, explaining why people are turning to the Internet to find relationships. This appeared in the June 12 Los Angeles Daily News.
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"If you can organize yourself, and if the other side isn't organized, whoever is in that position has the greatest bargaining power and determines outcomes." – In the Wall Street Journal on June 8, Daniel Mitchell, professor emeritus at Anderson School of Management and distinguished professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs, talked about NBA free agents potentially meeting.
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"We don't necessarily need to change the nature of sports. But since we don't know how devastating this can be for a child, it's better to restrict activities in sports where children may be exposed to repeat concussions.”– David Hovda, neurosurgery professor and UCLA Brain Injury Research Center director, discussing potential consequences of youth concussions in a CNN.com blog on June 8.
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The so-called health benefit of chocolate “has not been reproduced clinically in any trial.”– In a May 31 Los Angeles Times article, Dr. John Gordon Harold, clinical professor of cardiology at David Geffen School of Medicine and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said research shows that flavonoids in chocolate help improve blood flow, but no clinical trials have supported that theory.
