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Friday, October 8, 2021
In 2013, Colombia had one of the highest HPV immunization rates in the Americas with 90 percent coverage among its target population. By 2016, uptake among eligible girls had declined to 5 percent. The cause? Emotional contagion. The viral spread of YouTube videos and disturbing images of girls ostensibly experiencing... Read More »
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Thursday, October 7, 2021
When Randy Beatty, a 68-year-old professor of accounting in the USC Marshall School of Business, decided to go on a ski vacation, he never imagined a pre-trip checkup would result in surgery instead of schussing the powder. “My primary care physician ordered a routine blood workup and when the results... Read More »
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Thursday, October 7, 2021
Marty Sargeant has been named CEO of Keck Medical Center of USC, comprised of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital. He has served as interim CEO since July 2020 and will begin his new role immediately. As CEO, Sargeant will provide executive leadership for both hospitals and will also continue... Read More »
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Thursday, October 7, 2021
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 videos from USC Norris physicians and a patient, kicked off Oct. 1. Featuring the... Read More »
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
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 donors. Living donor transplants, where donors either donate one of... Read More »
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
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 needed, the public service educational campaign features everyday patient heroes with the theme:... Read More »
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021
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 Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences as it celebrates 25 years of research... Read More »
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021
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 causes rapid buildup of high eye pressure – in her... Read More »
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021
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 on their own. USC experts say that while we wait for better Alzheimer’s... Read More »
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Monday, October 4, 2021
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 up, live, work and age — are unevenly distributed, leaving... Read More »
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Friday, October 1, 2021
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 Department of Health Services, SC CTSI provides funding, expertise, training... Read More »