Archive for July, 2008

Do You Get What You Pay For?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The United States spends substantially more per person on health care than any other country, and yet US health outcomes are the same as or worse than those in other countries. 
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In 2005, the last year for which comparative statistics are available, the United States spent $6401 per person, whereas […]

Two New iMacs Now Available

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The Norris Library has installed two new iMacs in the reference area on the plaza level.  These iMacs have a 20-inch monitor, 2 GB memory, a 8x superdrive (for burning CDs and DVDs), and run at 2.4 GHz.  A camera, microphone and speakers are also built into the monitor. The iMacs are installed with Leopard […]

Additional eJournal titles from Elsevier publishers have been extended back to Volume 1 in the USC Health Sciences Libraries collection.
The collection includes over 250 medical and dental titles including:

American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (and its earlier titles, American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery and American Journal of Orthodontics, from 1938)
American Journal of […]

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