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Friday, April 9, 2021
Vaping device companies are getting billions of eyeballs on their products and potentially influencing young adults with unrestricted advertising in music videos, an unregulated and relatively cheap promotional platform, a pair of USC studies show. The studies were published April 6 in Health Education & Behavior and in the December 2020 issue... Read More »
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Last year, the U.S. government purchased 150 million BinaxNOW rapid antigen COVID-19 tests and began distributing them. One of the goals was to safely reopen schools. However, little data was available on how well these tests performed, especially among asymptomatic school-age children. A new USC study addresses that knowledge gap.... Read More »
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Kidney development is a balancing act between the self-renewal of stem and progenitor cells to maintain and expand their numbers, and the differentiation of these cells into more specialized cell types. In a new study in the journal eLife from Andy McMahon’s laboratory in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine... Read More »
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The USC Roski Eye Institute will open its new Visual Electrophysiology Unit (VEU) to community physicians in April. Ophthalmologists may directly refer their patients to the VEU for testing. The VEU features state-of-the-art equipment that aids in the detection of inherited retinal diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa, as well as... Read More »
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Five years ago, Kim Michalski, now 67, had a prominent career as an investment manager, overseeing portfolios for high-wealth clients and traveling across the country to manage her own staff. But behind closed doors, Michalski was experiencing excruciating sciatic pain and spinal degeneration. “Carrying suitcases and briefcases, even walking, was... Read More »
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Monday, April 5, 2021
Berislav Zlokovic was one of three USC faculty members to be appointed as University Professors, USC Provost Charles F. Zukoski announced in an April 5 memo. John Brooks Slaughter, PhD, Hanna Reisler, PhD, and Berislav Zlokovic, MD, PhD, were named as University Professors and Natalia Molina, PhD, and Alan E. Willner, PhD, were named as Distinguished Professors.... Read More »
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Monday, April 5, 2021
Hispanic immigrants of working age — 20 to 54 years old — are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study of California death certificate data from 2020. The study, published March 29 in the Annals... Read More »
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Monday, April 5, 2021
The Los Angeles Business Journal has published its “Women of Influence: Health Care” special section, and several Keck Medicine of USC clinicians and administrators were honored, as well as women from throughout the USC medical community. The 2021 honorees include: April Armstrong, MD, MPH, professor of dermatology (clinical scholar) and associate dean... Read More »
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Friday, April 2, 2021
For too long, too few autistic people have had a say in how autism research is designed, developed and disseminated, and researchers have not tapped into the expertise that only autistic people and their families have. A new USC-coordinated project looks to upend that disparity by intentionally allying with stakeholder... Read More »
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Friday, April 2, 2021
As restaurants, stores and other venues reopen, Americans are slowly but surely reentering the world. However, recent events, such as mass shootings in Boulder, Colorado and Atlanta, Georgia, added an extra layer of stress and uncertainty for many people. Keck Medicine of USC experts address how traumatic occurrences affect us... Read More »
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Friday, April 2, 2021
The film “The Father” brings the issue of dementia to the forefront. This is a story about how a man, played by Anthony Hopkins, who refuses all assistance from his daughter, played by Olivia Colman, as he begins to suffer from the overwhelming and unnerving symptoms of dementia. As he tries to make sense... Read More »