Tag Archives: 1995
← Older postsVon Hagen, former chair of neurobiology
Karol O. Von Hagen, a retired neurologist and psychiatrist from Rancho Palos Verdes has died at the age of 90. Dr. Von Hagen was a former chair of the Department of Neurology at the USC School of Medicine and maintained [...]
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5 year study investigates role of hypertension and kidney disease
A clinical study examining the effects of high blood pressure on kidney disease in African-Americans has been seeking volunteers for a long-term research project at LAC+USC. Headed by Shaul Massry, chief of nephrology, the five-year trial will examine how three [...]
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People: What we are saying and doing
USC will be the sole academic sponsor of an April conference of the World Health Organization and WONCA, an international organization of family physicians. Ricardo Hahn, professor and chair of family medicine, said that involvement in the Buenos Aires meeting [...]
Tagged 1995
Doctor provides legacy for students in need
James Peacock A simple operation to remove glass from the foot of a six-year old boy has led to more than 175 men and women realizing the same dream as the six-year old-the privilege of being a physician. “Because of [...]
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Parties with a purpose
With holiday parties taking place all around, Dean Stephen J. Ryan had back-to-back-to-back parties with a fund-raising purpose. Ryan opened his San Marino home to donors, faculty, friends and affiliates of the School of Medicine on three consecutive nights this [...]
Tagged 1995
Nurse= mom x 10
Angie Schwan As a registered nurse Angie Schwan may never have specialized in obstetrics, but no one can say that she isn’t qualified. After all, she’s had 10 children of her own plus 28 grandchildren-and counting. “People hear that and [...]
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McDonnell warns against excimer laser overuse
A major article in the Wall St. Journal this week about new ways to correct nearsighted vision with the use of laser surgery machines called excimer lasers, included a warning from Peter McDonnell, a professor of ophthalmology at the Doheny [...]
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Hughes employees continue support of USC medical research
Fred Rogriguez and Maria Zumbrun of Hughes Employees at Hughes Electronics Corporation started their gift-giving early this year, recently bestowing a $32,700 check to help research at the School of Medicine and the USC/Norris Cancer Center. The gift was generated [...]
Posted in Research | Tagged 1995
Missing gene wreaks havoc on palate and lungs
When USC molecular geneticists John Groffen, Nora Heisterkamp and Vesa Kaartinen at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles first set out to eliminate transforming growth factor-ß3 (TGF-ß3), from the genetic makeup of a line of mice, they didn’t anticipate the ripples of [...]
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Etcetera
Aging: A Natural History, a book co-authored by Caleb Finch, the ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Professor in the Neurobiology of Aging at the Andrus Gerontology Center, along with Robert Ricklefs of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, was the subject of a glowing [...]
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