Medical Research

USC made its offer to neuroscientists a no-brainer

2013-05-18 05:00:00

The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood restaurant. USC provost Elizabeth Garrett and executive vice provost Michael Quick kept the conversation light. Over chicken with braised...

Cedars-Sinai stands out for steep pricing

2013-05-17 00:00:00

When Medicare disclosed average charges from thousands of U.S. hospitals for 100 common procedures last week, only one hospital was near the top in every category: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Be it a cardiac stent, a hip replacement or a...

The specter of human cloning

2013-05-17 00:00:00

A breakthrough in stem cell research has again raised the specter of human cloning. The discovery by a team at Oregon Health and Science University moves the world incrementally closer to that result, but its more immediate effect will be to spur...

Angelina Jolie, the Supreme Court and gene patents

2013-05-14 15:29:00

It's hard to imagine Supreme Court justices paying much attention to the travails of Hollywood's rich and famous. Still, there's an interesting connection between Angelina Jolie's disclosure Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy and a case the...

Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes

2013-05-14 16:17:00

Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...

Ewwww -- poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns

2013-05-16 14:07:00

Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have� pooped in the pool. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked with state and local public...

Navy drone, in a first, is catapulted from carrier deck into flight

2013-05-14 10:10:00

For the first time in naval aviation history, a drone was catapulted off the deck of an aircraft carrier and soared into flight. The U.S. Navy conducted the test Tuesday from aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush off the Virginia coast with its X-47B...

Drone is catapulted off aircraft carrier in milestone flight test

2013-05-15 00:00:00

In a historic feat for the U.S. Navy, a stealthy bat-winged drone was catapulted off an aircraft carrier's flight deck before it soared above the Atlantic and into the blue sky. On Tuesday morning, the X-47B experimental drone was launched from the...

Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?

2013-05-16 06:00:00

The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...

Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells

2013-05-15 17:43:00

For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of...

Restaurant meals overloaded with salt, fat, calories, study says

2013-05-14 05:30:00

Want to satisfy your full day’s requirement of salt, fat and calories? Sit down in a restaurant and order a meal. After an exhaustive analysis of 3,507 possible ways to order 685 meals at 19 restaurants chains in Canada, researchers found that the...

Study casts doubt on some findings about sodium

2013-05-14 17:49:00

Are Americans getting mixed messages about how much sodium they should be consuming? Lately, yes, and some of those messages are muddled because studies themselves are muddled, a panel of doctors has concluded. The Institute of Medicine panel...

In his essay for the Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team scholarship application, Neil Sheth criticized Albert Einstein's decision to endorse the atomic bomb. Sheth believes scientists should focus on technology that benefits humankind, he later explained.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Even after a heart attack, stroke or other life-threatening event, 14% of people in a new study said they didn't start to exercise more or make other healthy lifestyle changes.

2013-04-16 14:01:58

Even the most positive of people can have a hard time using the words "hope" and "cancer" in the same sentence. Even with early detection, the diagnosis can be devastating, psyche-shattering. It could be easy for some to remain strong. It's not as easy to remain unfailingly hopeful.

2013-03-19 11:08:00