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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Members of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association dance in colorful costumes at Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad on Jan. 30 to celebrate the beginning of the lunar new year and the Chinese Year of the Horse. [caption id="attachment_1270" align="alignleft" width="432"] Photo/Sara Reeve[/caption]... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Keck School of Medicine of USC has named one of its own, Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, to become chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and director of the USC Eye Institute as well as to serve as professor of ophthalmology and preventive medicine and hold the Grace and Emery Beardsley... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
By Hope Hamashige [caption id="attachment_1273" align="alignright" width="72"] Helen Hislop[/caption] Helen Hislop, PhD, a pioneering former chair of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, a division at the Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, died on Nov. 15 in North Carolina at the age of 84. Hislop spent 30 years at USC, heading... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
By Alison Trinidad For the first time, scientists and engineers have identified a critical cancer-causing component in the virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common cancer among HIV-infected people. The discovery lays the foundation for developing drugs that prevent Kaposi’s sarcoma and other related cancers. “The mechanism behind the... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
By Paul Karon A public education program that trained and fielded a cadre of health mentors in California significantly boosted Latino residents’ knowledge of everything from cholesterol and diabetes to the importance of nutrition and exercise, a USC study showed. The study, by the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
[caption id="attachment_1262" align="alignright" width="216"] Above, the USC Trojan Marching Band plays at the event, held at the USC Galen Center.Photo/Leslie Ridgeway[/caption] The USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) launched its Saturday Academy on Jan. 18, expanding to include nearly 100 sixth graders who live near the Health Sciences Campus. The NAI... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
U.S. News & World Report ranks many of our excellent clinical departments among the top programs in the country. These rankings are an important marker that communicates the high quality of our patient care and medical research to the public. Each program’s reputation among physicians is a vital component of... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
By Leslie Ridgeway [caption id="attachment_1255" align="alignright" width="144"] Shaul G. Massry (left) presents Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen A. Puliafito with a check to support the Fifth-Year Research Scholars program.Photo/Amy Hamaker[/caption] With a goal of helping young researchers launch their careers, the Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation has provided... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Paul Macklin, assistant professor of research, will speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science ann ual meeting, to be held Feb. 13-17 in Chicago. As part of a discussion on “big data” — data sets so large and complex that they become difficult to process using traditional... Read More »
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Friday, January 24, 2014
By Amy E. Hamaker Don’t wear stilettos. Cultivate “om” in the office. Know your grocer. Smile. [caption id="attachment_1245" align="alignright" width="140"] David Agus, professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and Keck School Dean Carmen A. Puliafito discuss the rules for living a healthy life during a... Read More »