Collaboration between engineers and doctors provides hope for mental health patients
Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC are partnering with the USC Center for Neurotechnology, part of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, to utilize neural imaging, brain-computer interfaces and medical knowledge to ... Read More »
Rural men are living shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts
Rural men are dying earlier than their urban counterparts, and they’re spending fewer of their later years in good health, according to new research from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. Higher ... Read More »
Examining drivers of stress among African American breast cancer survivors
In an effort to improve breast cancer treatment and recovery for Black women, a Keck School of Medicine of USC study examined possible links between social and clinical drivers of stress, along with resulting cortisol ... Read More »
NIH-funded exposomics coordinating center to advance precision environmental health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $7,722,583 to the new Network for Exposomics in the US (NEXUS) Coordinating Center, which is co-led by experts from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Columbia ... Read More »
Damon Clark, MD, wins volunteerism award for humanitarian efforts
The American College of Surgeons has named Damon H. Clark, MD, an emergency, trauma and critical care surgeon with Keck Medicine of USC, as the winner of its annual Surgical Volunteerism Award. The award is intended ... Read More »
USC launches large-scale nationwide study of type 1 diabetes and brain development
A new large-scale longitudinal study, led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC, will unite 12 research centers across the United States to explore how type 1 diabetes affects children during a window of ... Read More »