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Study Finds Big Air Pollution Impacts on Local Communities
Heavy traffic corridors in the cities of Long Beach and Riverside are responsible for a significant proportion of preventable childhood asthma, and the true impact of air pollution and ship emissions on the disease has likely been underestimated, according to...
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- USC Physician-Researchers Receive $16 Million Grant From State Stem Cell Agency
- USC Awarded New $16 Million Cancer Research Center
- Keck School of Medicine of USC Wins $34 Million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds
- USC Ophthalmologist and Biomedical Engineer Mark Humayun Elected to Institute of Medicine
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KNOWME Network Presentation Wins Body Computing Slam Prize
A team led by Donna Spruijt-Metz won co-honors with Viterbi faculty at the recent USC Body Computing Slam, a competition of presentations the day before the annual USC Body Computing Conference 3.0, which took place in mid-October 2009 at the...
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Experts at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital areavailable to comment on new mammogram guidelines from the U.S. PreventiveServices Task Force.Christy Russell, M.D., is associate professor of medicine at the Keck Schoolof Medicine of USC and chief of...Featured Expert
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Expert in child and brain development, including genetic disorders like autism and Down Syndrome, and drug abuse during pregnancy