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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
By Amy E. Hamaker Amyloid fibers, abnormal protein aggregates, have been associated with more than 20 serious human diseases, including neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. However, Ansgar Siemer, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute within the Keck School of... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Mongolia’s economic growth rate in 2012 was 12.3 percent — one of the highest in the world — but that same growth has caused rapid urbanization. These changes have resulted in serious health problems that Mongolia currently lacks the capacity to address. International support has come from volunteers, including a... Read More »
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Monday, August 12, 2013
Based on a comprehensive study that included more than half the U.S. Asian-American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) populations, a team of scientists led by members of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC) has produced the first-ever analysis of... Read More »
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Monday, August 12, 2013
Ruth K. Peters, ScD (nee Ruth Ann Kloepfer), died from complications of progressive supranuclear palsy on July 20. She was 69. (more…)... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
[caption id="attachment_672" align="alignright" width="300"] (Photo/Christine Tam)[/caption] Hundreds of people joined in a demonstration in proper hand hygiene given by members of Keck Medical Center of USC at a health fair on July 28. The demonstration at La Placitas Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Los Angeles offered participants the chance... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
By Amy E. Hamaker Big changes are coming to the Health Sciences Campus neighborhood as part of the USC HSC Master Plan. As part of the community, USC recently invited neighborhood residents to add their input to the process. Two special workshops on implementation of the HSC Master Plan and... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
[caption id="attachment_661" align="alignright" width="192"] John Ferrelli[/caption] John Ferrelli has been appointed to the position of chief administrative officer (CAO) for USC Norris Cancer Hospital, effective Aug. 1. Ferrelli will be responsible for managing and coordinating the administrative, fiscal and operational activities of USC Norris Cancer Hospital. “The CAO is a... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
By Cristy Lytal Three newly assembled research teams within USC Stem Cell, the regenerative medicine initiative at USC, will take steps that could lead to future stem-cell based therapies for certain forms of deafness, bone defects and pediatric leukemia. The teams are the winners of USC’s Regenerative Medicine Initiative (RMI),... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway Thomas McAfee, MD, dean of clinical affairs at UC San Diego Health Sciences, has been appointed the CEO of the newly forming Keck Medicine of USC Medical Foundation. He begins his new role on Sept. 3. The development of a community medical foundation intended to add primary... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
USC physicians continued to make impressive gains this year in an annual ranking of doctors in the San Gabriel Valley. In all, 345 USC physicians have been included in Pasadena Magazine’s 2013 roster of “Top Doctors,” up from 273 last year and 170 in 2011. The doctors represent 34 different... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
By Josh Grossberg Becoming a doctor requires years of attending lectures, watching PowerPoint presentations and reading stacks of thick textbooks filled with charts and graphs. But at some point, young students and physician residents at Los Angeles County + USC will have to put down the heavy tomes and pick... Read More »