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Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Even with COVID-19 dominating the news, the epidemic of opioid use remains a nationwide threat. While public awareness and efforts to stop addiction and overdoses have intensified, some communities reported higher rates of opioid-related deaths in 2020 than ever before. The extent and burden of opioid prescription drug use has... Read More »
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Friday, September 3, 2021
The physicians of Keck Medicine of USC once again have been recognized by Pasadena Magazine in its 2021 Top Doctors issue. Pasadena Magazine’s Top Doctors issue honors practicing physicians in Pasadena and surrounding cities within the San Gabriel Valley who are considered by their peers to be the best in... Read More »
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Thursday, September 2, 2021
California bars kids from cannabis dispensaries and shields them from cannabis marketing, but those statewide restrictions aren’t working as well as policymakers had hoped. That’s according to a new study in JAMA Pediatrics that evaluates how these regulations designed to protect minors have held up five years after voters legalized cannabis. To... Read More »
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Thursday, September 2, 2021
By 2030, 71 million Americans will be 65 and older. Along with the joys of aging, many older adults experience complex and chronic health problems that may result in disability. It is not surprising that, as a group, older adults need more health care than their younger counterparts. As a 2021-22... Read More »
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Anyone who has watched a child face a doctor with a needle knows how stressful those moments can be for all involved. For children with serious medical conditions undergoing frequent procedures like blood draws and catheter placements, the ongoing anxiety and fear can take a toll. Now, a study published... Read More »
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021
A new USC study finds that a class of environmental pollutants known as “forever chemicals” may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in Latino girls. The pollutants, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are a group of man-made chemicals used across the United States in a wide range of industrial... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021
On Aug. 27, at USC’s Health Sciences Campus, 314 Trojan occupational therapy graduate students from both the Master’s class of 2022 and the class of 2023 donned their white coats during the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy’s 2021 White Coat Ceremony. “Students — today we commemorate... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Erin Trish, PhD, a health economist whose work focuses on the intersection of public policy and health care markets, has been named co-director of the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. She joined the Schaeffer Center in 2013 as a postdoctoral fellow and, over the last... Read More »
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Monday, August 30, 2021
Already at crisis levels before the arrival of COVID-19, homelessness in Los Angeles County now affects more than 66,000 people. The vast majority of them never see a doctor, even when they have serious health issues – last year, more than 1,300 people who are unsheltered died. To continue reading... Read More »
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Friday, August 27, 2021
For decades, research has shown the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease in the United States is dramatically higher among African American populations than in non-Hispanic white populations. Scientists have suspected a variety of contributing factors, but the underlying reasons have remained unclear. Now, a new study in The Journals of Gerontology, conducted in... Read More »
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021
As students moved to campus for the start of classes, nearly 27,000 passed through USC Student Health’s “pop testing” sites at Jefferson Lot, Pardee Marks, Pappas Quad and the Eric Cohen Health Center. To fulfill the Trojan Check requirements for weekly surveillance testing, students lined up at the sites for... Read More »