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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
When cholesterol is high, it leads to inflammation and scarring of the liver. In some cases, this scarring leads to cirrhosis. Now, new research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC adds further details on how this happens. Using mice, the first-of-its kind study discovered that a high-cholesterol diet... Read More »
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Monday, September 19, 2022
The No Surprises Act — implemented in January, 2022 — prohibits hospital providers who are out of a patient's coverage network from billing the patient when they couldn’t have known they were receiving care out of network. Now, a new analysis by the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy &... Read More »
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Friday, September 16, 2022
Health plans offered on the insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) negotiate hospital prices equivalent to or lower than prices paid by commercial group plans, according to recent analysis from USC Schaeffer Center. In the report, published in AJMC, ACA exchange plans on average paid 89% of what... Read More »
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
After experiencing a stroke that left him with severe physical deficits, William “Billy” Mallon, MD, traveled from Stonybrook, NY to USC Physical Therapy with one goal: to walk again. A recently released video now documents how a unique collaboration between physical therapist Lori Ginoza, DPT, NSC, and researcher Kristan Leech,... Read More »
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Students, staff and faculty of the USC School of Pharmacy joined several community organizations at an afternoon health fair at South Los Angeles' Saint Mark United Methodist Church on Sept. 10. The event featured free flu and COVID-19 vaccines, health screenings and giveaways, and a community discussion about the dangers... Read More »
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Reported cases of elder abuse over the course of the pandemic show a worrying trend — an increase in severity and multiple abuses happening at the same time. The data was gathered and analyzed in a first-of-its-kind study led by Duke Han, PhD, director of neuropsychology in the Department of... Read More »
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Sharon Jhawar earned her PharmD at the USC School of Pharmacy in 2001, an accomplishment that soon led to a job at SCAN Health Plan, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans. A board-certified geriatric pharmacist who also holds an MBA, Jhawar is passionate about helping older adults.... Read More »
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
UniHealth Foundation has awarded $2 million to Keck Medicine of USC to study solutions to physician burnout. This research will address three major elements of physician burnout — emotional stress, skill mastery and workflow — by conducting a randomized clinical trial to explore different approaches to improving the mental health... Read More »
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Monday, September 12, 2022
In response to rising suicide rates among children and teens, a group of international researchers called the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours (ENIGMA-STB) consortium, has conducted a study to examine associations between brain structure and suicide attempt in young people with major depressive disorder. The study, published in Molecular Psychiatry,... Read More »
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Friday, September 9, 2022
Raquel Arias, MD, associate dean of admissions at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, had a startling revelation over the summer. Of the 186 future doctors accepted into the school, only 47 received scholarships due to limited funding. Arias grew up picking peaches in an agricultural community, so she... Read More »
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Friday, September 9, 2022
Steven Richeimer, MD, is the chief of the division of pain medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a renowned specialist on issues related to chronic pain. Last month, he published an article in the journal Confronting Chronic Pain regarding a study that investigated a possible secondary... Read More »