Imperial Valley News Center
Don’t use body mass index to determine whether people are healthy
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- Written by Stuart Wolpert
Los Angeles, California - Over the past few years, body mass index, a ratio of a person’s height and weight, has effectively become a proxy for whether a person is considered healthy. Many U.S. companies use their employees’ BMIs as a factor in determining workers’ health care costs. And people with higher BMIs could soon have to pay higher health insurance premiums, if a rule proposed in April by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is adopted.
A ‘Nudge’ Reduces Doctors’ Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescription, Study Finds
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- Written by Emily Gersema
Los Angeles, California - Behavioral interventions that appealed to doctors’ competitive spirits and desire to strengthen their reputations motivated them to significantly reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, a new study shows.
Gene Protects Women From Heart Disease
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- Written by Zen Vuong
Los Angeles, California - USC researchers have identified a gene variant that decreases the risk of heart disease - but only among women.
Uniter and a Divider: Purity Keeps us Together - and Apart
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- Written by Emily Gersema
Los Angeles, California - Purity is the moral foundation that drives people apart – and a glue that keeps them together, a new study shows.
Turning air into fuel: USC scientists convert carbon dioxide into methanol
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- Written by Robert Perkins
Los Angeles, California - They’re making fuel from thin air at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute.
Cat Stem Cell Therapy Gives Humans Hope
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- Written by Pat Bailey
Davis, California - By the time Bob the cat came to the UC Davis veterinary hospital, he had used up most of his nine lives. Afflicted with a painful oral inflammatory disorder, Bob had already lost all of his teeth in an effort to treat the disease known as feline chronic gingivostomatitis, or FCGS. In a last-ditch effort, Bob’s owner enrolled him in a clinical trial to receive a novel stem cell therapy treatment.
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