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Friday, November 22, 2013
[caption id="attachment_1108" align="alignright" width="224"] Third-year Keck School of Medicine of USC medical student Martin Tolosa examines a patient at the four-day Care Harbor clinic held Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.(Photo/Jon Nalick)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1109" align="alignright" width="300"] The annual Care Harbor event provides free medical... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Christine Chan and Amy E. Hamaker Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and more than five million Americans live with the disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Conquering Alzheimer’s was the focus of the first Zilkha Mini Symposium on Alzheimer’s Research at... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Larissa Puro [caption id="attachment_1102" align="alignright" width="300"] In this screen capture from the short film Tamale Lesson, the fictional Romeo family discusses cervical cancer screening while making tamales for a Quinceanera.[/caption] The USC faculty-produced short film Tamale Lesson, which uses narrative storytelling to educate women about cervical cancer screening, received... Read More »
Experimental drug reduces brain damage, eliminates brain hemorrhaging in rodents afflicted by stroke
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Alison Trinidad An experimental drug called 3K3A-APC appears to reduce brain damage, eliminate brain hemorrhaging and improve motor skills in older stroke-afflicted mice and stroke-afflicted rats with comorbid conditions such as hypertension, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC. The study, which appears online in the... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
[caption id="attachment_1097" align="alignright" width="300"] (Photo/Cristy Lytal)[/caption] The dessert tray and cheese platter seemed self-renewing at the first USC Stem Cell Social, held on Oct. 25 at the Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC. Nearly 100 guests toured the labs, viewed research... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Robert Perkins Sometimes the smallest tools are required to tackle the biggest problems. At the forefront of innovative research on regenerative medicine and cancer treatment, experts from the top research institutions in the greater Los Angeles area converged for the first-ever UCLA-USC-Caltech Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Symposium on Oct. 18.... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Ellin Kavanagh Thomas Coates, MD, professor of pediatrics and pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and section head of hematology in the division of hematology oncology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, along with four other co-principal investigators, recently received a five-year, $9.5 million grant from the... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Lorenzo Benet A mother and her 25-week-old fetus are doing well after a USC surgeon and pediatrician performed a successful in utero cardiac interventional procedure on the fetus at CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center late last month. The minimally invasive procedure, known as a fetal aortic valvuloplasty, was a... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Jennifer Jing and Cristy Lytal Researchers addressed the leading cause of death in the United States at the Los Angeles Area Cardiovascular Research Symposium and Research Award Reception, which brought together the region’s cardiovascular specialists to examine the developmental origins of heart health and disease. Held at The Saban... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Laura Sturza Six students from the USC School of Pharmacy’s regulatory science program received a dose of the real world this summer as they toured two of the San Francisco Bay Area’s major pharmaceutical and medical device companies. The students saw firsthand the operations at Boehringer Ingelheim, one of... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway Using three-dimensional organ creation, Keck Medicine of USC researchers aim to discover clues to metastatic cancer growth by developing a first-ever integrated bioengineered/computational model of metastatic colon cancer. David B. Agus, MD, director of the USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine and professor of medicine at the... Read More »