Hope Hamashige

Mar 5, 2024 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jessica Migala |Courtney Helgoe |Hope Hamashige |Patrick Downes

Often when people visualize success in fitness endeavors, they visualize reaching an end goal, such as PRing their deadlift or crossing the finish line of their first triathlon.

Dec 4, 2023 | keck.usc.edu | Hope Hamashige

By Hope HamashigeA team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have identified two metabolites, substances produced by the body during metabolism, that may help predict which young Latino people are most likely to develop prediabetes, a precursor to developing type 2 diabetes.

Oct 9, 2023 | keck.usc.edu | Hope Hamashige

By Hope HamashigeA research team led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC has discovered that a non-invasive eye exam may be a possible tool for screening Black Americans and other people from underdiagnosed and high-risk populations for cerebral small vessel disease, a major contributor to cognitive impairment and dementia. After Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, associated with impaired blood flow to the brain, is the second most common dementia diagnosis.

Sep 7, 2023 | medicalxpress.com | Hope Hamashige

Mental health and substance use disorders are prevalent among people experiencing homelessness, yet access to care for these health issues is challenging for people living on the streets. Now, a new survey conducted by a team of researchers from USC Street Medicine found that, in California, street medicine programs are helping to fill this gap, delivering critical, high-level mental health and substance use treatments to the state's unsheltered population.

Apr 10, 2023 | news.usc.edu | Hope Hamashige |David Medzerian

When she was in junior high school, Roberta Williams’ doctors thought she had developed a heart condition and recommended she have surgery. Her parents wanted a second opinion and took her to Johns Hopkins University, where she was evaluated by Helen Taussig, the woman credited with creating the specialty of pediatric cardiology. Williams noticed a few things on that visit to Taussig’s clinic. The first was the fact that Taussig, a female doctor, was treated respectfully by her colleagues.