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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
For the sixth consecutive time, Keck Hospital of USC earned an 'A' Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization, for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety. “Our steadfast commitment to patient safety and quality care is reflected in all we do,” said Marty Sargeant, MBA, CEO... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
A new study from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center that was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences has demonstrated the feasibility of using a single tube of blood and computerized tomography (CT) scans to construct a complex cellular, molecular, and image profile of metastatic prostate cancer in real-time.... Read More »
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Monday, May 9, 2022
The Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion that could reverse Roe v. Wade has many people wondering what a post-Roe landscape might look like. Dima Qato, PharmD, PhD, MPH, an associate professor at the USC School of Pharmacy and senior fellow at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, offers... Read More »
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Friday, May 6, 2022
When Neysa Sanghavi arrived at the University of California from Mumbai, India with a Dean’s Leadership Scholarship in 2018, she was already an accomplished humanitarian, conservationist, author and scholar. She had worked toward turtle conservation in Costa Rica, researched HIV among former sex workers in India, and was named the youngest... Read More »
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Thursday, May 5, 2022
Smog’s harmful effect on health is widely understood. The noxious mixture of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter wreaks havoc on the entire body. Lung, brain and heart health suffer but it also has been linked to behavioral problems, Alzheimer’s disease and obesity. However, none of this was established in 1992 when... Read More »
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Thursday, May 5, 2022
In honor of Mother’s Day, the ambulatory infusion teams distributed roses to patients who visited USC Norris Hospital, the Women’s Specialty Care Clinic, as well as Keck Medicine of USC locations in Arcadia, Buena Park, Koreatown, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Pasadena during the week of Mother’s Day. This has... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
On April 28, a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the launch of the Interventional Radiation and Catheter Laboratory at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital that will provide two crucial elements of emergency cardiovascular care for patients in the Verdugo Hills and surrounding communities. Among community cardiologists in the area, there is already building... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
The University of Southern California's Street Medicine Program launched in 2018, when the Keck School of Medicine of USC recruited two specialists, Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C, and Corinne Feldman, MMS, PA-C, from Allentown, Pennsylvania to co-direct a cadre of clinicians to serve Los Angeles' unhoused population. The team now includes... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Raymond Goldsworthy, PhD, head of the Bionic Ear Lab in the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and a cochlear implant user, has spent years working with a team of researchers and patients to help improve the capabilities of the implant. Historically, cochlear implants have made it impossible for... Read More »
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Monday, May 2, 2022
People who have experienced a neurologic injury often face the challenge of changing their gait and learning a different walking pattern. The newly opened Gait Rehabilitation and Motor Learning Lab at the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy aims to help individuals with gait dysfunction recover the ability to... Read More »
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Monday, May 2, 2022
On April 22nd, the staff members of the USC Transplant Institute raised the Donate Life Flag in honor of Donate Life month and all the organ donors who have given the gift of life to patients in need. The Transplant Institute raises the flag annually in April and also raises... Read More »