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Thursday, June 14, 2018
Five winners have been selected from among the respondents to the inaugural HSC News Weekly Reader Survey. Nancy Berman, Michelle Lee, Helen Noble, Claire Norman and Michelle Steele were randomly selected to win $20 Amazon gift cards. The survey, which was open from May 17 to June 8, sought opinions... Read More »
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
He describes himself as a proud Trojan. Others describe Antreas Hindoyan, MD, as a guardian angel, a dedicated and gifted physician with great skill and expertise, and an exemplary man. These accolades recently led to the interventional cardiologist at Keck Medicine of USC being awarded the USC Choi Family Award... Read More »
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
When Gianluca Lazzi, PhD, started out as an electrical engineer, he was working on safety assessments of electromagnetic fields. Essentially, he wanted to find out how to prevent people from being overexposed to those fields and hurting themselves. Today, he actually exposes people to those same electromagnetic fields in order to... Read More »
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
A new USC analysis of air quality data shows sharply different levels of air pollution across the Los Angeles area, with Chinatown suffering from the unhealthiest air. Altadena had the lowest air pollution. The analysis used an artificial intelligence model, developed through collaborations at USC, that can measure particulate matter... Read More »
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Stephanie Saldana was born with amelogenesis imperfecta, a rare tooth development disorder that causes teeth to be unusually small, grooved or discolored. Because of that disorder, Saldana would instinctively cover her mouth to avoid being bullied by classmates. Thanks to the work of two Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of... Read More »
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Directors of the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation visited the Health Sciences Campus on April 27 to hear presentations from Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty and meet with participants in the Baxter Foundation Student Research Fellowship program. The foundation’s mission is to advance charitable, scientific and... Read More »
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
A USC research team identified 150 proteins affecting cell activity and brain development that contribute to mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar condition and depression. It’s the first time these molecules, which are associated with the disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) protein linked to mental disorders, have been identified. The scientists developed new... Read More »
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Monday, June 11, 2018
An international team of researchers including USC scientists has found scores of new genetic markers in DNA code that increase prostate cancer risk — powerful knowledge likely to prove useful to detect and prevent the disease. Focusing on the DNA of more than 140,000 men worldwide, researchers were able to... Read More »
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Monday, June 11, 2018
Raffi Boghossian saw a lot of things growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, during the height of a civil war. Out of those things grew a passion for nursing and service to others. “I grew up in a war-torn country and all I saw were people in need,” explained the clinical... Read More »
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
“Put yourself first.” Ghecemy Lopez, MEd, speaks with experience from multiple perspectives when she gives that advice to cancer patients. Lopez is a cancer information resource and navigation specialist at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and a two-time cancer survivor, so she knows the roller-coaster ride of treatment and... Read More »
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
Remote-controlled drones — technically known as UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles — are becoming more powerful, more reliable and cheaper. Public health and humanitarian providers in remote areas have begun using the drones to deliver medical supplies and vaccines or provide aerial eyes on a scene, rather than dispatching a... Read More »