USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital partnered with community organizations during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to encourage people of color to get a mammogram. The campaign, which includes a flyer, infographic and … Read More »
More than 110,000 people in the United States are on the waitlist for lifesaving organ transplants. However, there is a national shortage of available viable kidneys and livers for people on the transplant waitlist, highlighting the need for more living … Read More »
Five of Los Angeles County’s largest nonprofit health systems with hospitals, clinics and facilities regionwide announced the newest campaign for their bettertogether.health coalition. With a mission to convince Angelenos to put health first and access care when … Read More »
USC’s hub for environmental health sciences research has secured a key grant to continue its work in Los Angeles and beyond well into 2025.
The Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center received a five-year, $8 million grant from the National … Read More »
Vanessa Ho was just beginning her Saturday morning when she suddenly felt intense pain and blurry vision in her right eye. She had experienced these symptoms once before when she suffered an acute angle closure attack – a condition that … Read More »
There’s an invisible, unpaid workforce caring for the 6 million Americans currently living with Alzheimer’s disease. The USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics estimates that 11 million family caregivers bear this emotional, physical and financial burden, mostly … Read More »
Minority populations in the United States with multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases experience poorer outcomes due to modifiable social conditions, according to a new USC study. Social determinants of health (SDOH) — things like where people are born, grow … Read More »
The SC Clinical and Translational Science Institute has received a rare perfect score of 10 on a scale of 10-90 from National Institutes of Health peer evaluators. A partnership between USC, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County … Read More »