• Keck Hospital of USC named a 2024 top performer by Vizient, Inc.

Keck Hospital of USC named a 2024 top performer by Vizient, Inc.

September 18, 2024

Keck Hospital of USC has been named a top performer in the 2024 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership award by Vizient, Inc., a leading health care performance improvement company. The top performer designation acknowledges the hospital’s excellence in delivering high-quality care as measured... Read More Now »

  • A path leads from deep within a cave to a doorway shaped like a head with a tree shaped like a brain, symbolizing treatment-resistant depression recovery.

Collaboration between engineers and doctors provides hope for mental health patients

September 26th, 2024

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 »

  • An aerial view spans a rural community where men lead shorter, less healthy lives

Rural men are living shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts

September 25th, 2024

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 »

  • An African American breast cancer patient talks with her doctor

Examining drivers of stress among African American breast cancer survivors

September 25th, 2024

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 »

  • A map of humans going about their lives represents the technological capabilities of the NEXUS exposomics initiative.

NIH-funded exposomics coordinating center to advance precision environmental health

September 23rd, 2024

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 »

  • Keck Medicine Surgeon Damon Clark, MD

Damon Clark, MD, wins volunteerism award for humanitarian efforts

September 23rd, 2024

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 »

  • A mother performs a finger stick test on a small child with type 1 diabetes.

USC launches large-scale nationwide study of type 1 diabetes and brain development

September 18th, 2024

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 »

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