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About USC Health Now

USC Health Now provides you with access to reliable health news from our renowned USC health experts—at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the USC School of Pharmacy, the USC School of Dentistry, the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, among other units. Produced by the USC Health Sciences Campus Public Relations and Marketing Office, USC Health Now features weekly in-depth health stories and interactive tools designed to bring you inside information on current health topics from our internationally recognized health experts. USC Health Now provides the immediate help and background information that consumers look for today when making their healthcare decisions.

The Internet is full of health information—some of it reliable and some not. With USC Health Now, you know you are getting timely, dependable and practical health tips from USC's trusted experts in medicine, dentistry, occupational and physical therapy, nutrition, gerontology and pharmacy, among other fields.

USC Health Now is published once a week and is e-mailed directly to our subscribers. Sign up now for your free subscription, and then let's hear from you! If you have a question or an idea for a story, e-mail us at ehealth@usc.edu.

About the USC Health Sciences Campus Public Relations and Marketing Office

The USC Health Sciences Campus Public Relations and Marketing Office is responsible for promoting USC's health expertise through media relations, publications and marketing. Our staff publicize the many innovations in education, patient care and research happening here at USC to the University community and the general public.

To contact the USC Health Sciences Campus Public Relations and Marketing Office, call (323) 442-2830.

About Our Health Editor

Katie Neith serves as health editor of USC Health Now. She is a staff writer for the USC Health Sciences Public Relations and Marketing office, also contributing to the HSC Weekly, the USC/Norris Cancer Center Report and USC Health. In addition to her work at USC, Katie has worked as a managing editor for Nurses World Magazine, an assistant editor at MAMM magazine, and a behavioral research assistant at both Fox Chase Cancer Center and AIDS Project Los Angeles.

To contact Katie, email her at ehealth@usc.edu.

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