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Thursday, January 12, 2017
In a continued effort to support university faculty and encourage groundbreaking research, the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Dean’s Pilot Grant Program and the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute have distributed nearly two dozen grants for the fall funding cycle. Principal investigators and their collaborators include many... Read More »
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
A series of wellness initiatives recently launched across Keck Medicine of USC aim to encourage healthy living among physicians, nurses and staff. The initiatives include meditation practice, healthy eating and personal fitness tracking. They were created with the help of community partners and the Keck Wellness Committee, an interdisciplinary group... Read More »
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Friday, January 6, 2017
A study led by researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles demonstrates what lead investigator Bradley Peterson, MD, calls “a critical mass of evidence” of a common underlying lifelong vulnerability in both children and adults who stutter. They discovered that regional cerebral blood flow is reduced in the Broca’s area –... Read More »
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Friday, January 6, 2017
[caption id="attachment_6502" align="alignright" width="232"] Alfred Lopez was treated at Keck Medicine of USC in May 2016 for a rare bacterial infection that rapidly eats away muscle and flesh. (Photo/Christina Gandolfo)[/caption] After being resuscitated in a USC Verdugo Hills Hospital operating room, Alfred Lopez was transferred to Keck Medical Center of... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
JAMA Ophthalmology, one of the journals of the American Medical Association, announced four of its top 10 most talked about articles in 2016 are published research by the USC Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute. The four articles include National Eye Institute-funded research led by principal investigator, Rohit Varma, MD,... Read More »
USC physical therapy researchers to study use of electrical stimulation therapy for stroke survivors
Monday, January 2, 2017
Could electricity help stroke survivors regain control of their legs and return to mobility? It’s a question that assistant professor James Finley, PhD, and professor Carolee Winstein, PhD, PT, both from the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, part of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, hope... Read More »
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Friday, December 30, 2016
If more people were willing to share their health data on mobile devices, scientists could organize the information into shared databases and perhaps bring about the next era of medical breakthroughs, researchers said in a social change film. The curation and analysis of terabytes of health data may enable David... Read More »
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Friday, December 30, 2016
While using antihistamines such as Zantac to prevent alcohol-induced flushing is commonplace, USC experts say prolonged off-label use may have serious health consequences. Daryl Davies, PhD, director of the Alcohol and Brain Research Laboratory at USC, said alcohol flush reaction is your body telling you to slow down and start... Read More »
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6484" align="alignright" width="200"] David Freyer[/caption] Investigators from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and 37 other Children’s Oncology Group hospitals in the U.S. and Canada have determined that sodium thiosulfate prevents cisplatin-induced hearing loss in children and adolescents with cancer. Results of this randomized, controlled, phase 3 study, called ACCL0431, have... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
A study published in the Journal of Neuroimmunology and led by Ite Laird-Offringa, PhD, associate professor of surgery and associate dean of graduate affairs at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, suggests that the human body can detect and create an immune response to small cell lung cancer, which maybe... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
A new study has found that women have better brainpower after menopause if they had their last baby after age 35, used hormonal contraceptives for more than 10 years or began their menstrual cycle before turning 13. This is the first study to investigate the association between age at last... Read More »