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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Entertaining The Facts: Hollywood Health And Society

Comments (0) | cdc, Education, entertainment, Health, Health, hollywood, Hollywood Health and Society, Media, medicine, Nurse Jackie, Sesame Street, television

ChrisAnna Mink M.D.
Contributor

How can we combine entertainment with fact and education?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

BREAKING: Revolutionary Breakthrough In Modern Medicine, From USC Scientists

Comments (0) | Bicyclists, breakthrough, dmv, Health, medicine, stupidity, USC, vaccine

ChrisAnna Mink, M.D.
Contributor

These findings will save thousands of lives.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

French Scientists Found Possible Cure for HIV

Comments (123) | AIDS, cure, France, hiv, medicine, science, Science

Stassy Olmos
Staff Reporter

Scientists in France believe they’ve discovered the enzyme for a future HIV cure.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Death With Dignity: Why The United States Should Live And Let Die

Comments (0) | assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, California, cancer, comfort, Compassion & Choices, culture, death, Death With Dignity, dignity, Freedom, Health, health care, hospitals, Illness, life, medically assisted suicide, medicine, nursing homes, Opinion, Oregon, politics, suicide, terminal illness, The Brittany Maynard Fund, United States, Washington

Marisa Zocco
Contributor

Shouldn't terminally ill people be empowered to determine their own deaths?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

The Fight For Jahi McMath's Life

Comments (3) | Baylor College of Medicine, Benioff Children's Hospital, brain dead, brain death, Chris Dolan, ethics, Health, hospital, Jahi McMath, Law, lawsuit, lawyers, medical ethics, medicine, MRI, National, tonsillectomy, UCSF, University of California SanFrancisco

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Jenny Di
Staff Writer

Declared dead a year ago, Jahi McMath’s parents say she’s still alive.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Scientists Win Nobel For Discovering GPS In The Brain

Comments (0) | 2014, Alzheimer's, Bartlett Mel, brain, brain mapping, british, Caleb Finch, Edvard Moser, experiment, GPS, grid cells, Health, hippocampus, John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, medicine, neuroscience, nobel, Nobel Prize, norway, physiology, place cells, rats, science, scientist, Scott Kanoski, USC, USC's Alzheimer Disease Research Center

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Rachel Cohrs
Staff Reporter

Neuroscientists weigh in on the latest discovery.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Life On Antidepressants

Comments (2) | anti-depressants, Drugs, Health, Health, medicine, psychiatric hospital, Psychology, SSRIs

Carrie Poppy
Staff writer

New research shows the immediate brain effects of antidepressants, but what do people who take these medicines say? 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

WHO Launches $100 Million Ebola Response Plan

Comments (0) | dead, doctors, ebola, Guinea, infection, International, killed, liberia, Margaret Chan, medicine, nurses, outbreak, plan, response, Sierra Leone, spread, un, virus, West Africa, WHO

Francesca Bessey
Senior Opinion Editor

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan meets with the presidents of affected nations to discuss this "unprecedented" outbreak.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Ban Lifted On Medicare Coverage For Sex Reassignment

Comments (0) | access, appeals, ban, complications, coverage, department, exclusion, gender, gender queer, government, Health, Health and Human Services, health care, hhs, insurance, LGBT, medicare, medicine, Nation and World, non-conforming, practice, Professional, Rights, risk, ruling, sex, sex change, sex reassignment, trans, transgender

Francesca Bessey
Executive Producer

The change may help drive private insurers to offer coverage for reassignment surgery as well.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

A World Without Antibiotics

Comments (1) | antibiotics, bacteria, doctors, hospitals, medicine, Nation and World, resistence

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Jacqueline Giordano
Executive Producer

A new study finds antibiotic-resistent bacteria are no joke.

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