WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Padilla, 126 Lawmakers Urge DHS to Withdraw Public Charge Proposal That Would Harm Immigrants, Citizen Children, and Public Health * WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, co-led 126 lawmakers, including 16 other Senators and 110 Representatives, in urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw its pro  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 24 -- The University of California posted the following research brief: * * * Restoring the healthy form of a protein could revive blood vessel growth in premature infants' lungs * FINDINGS A UCLA-led research team has discovered a molecular switch that determines whether tiny blood vessels in premature infants' lungs can regenerate after injury. A failure of this repair process is a hallmark of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, a serious lung disease that a  more