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Thursday, July 22, 2021
While two-thirds of the U.S. adult population has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, vaccination rates remain highly variable across, and within, states. This is of increasing concern as communities reopen and more contagious variants of the virus spread, resulting in spikes in cases in parts of the U.S.... Read More »
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Thursday, July 22, 2021
Scientists around the world are achieving significant advances in the fight against devastating diseases like cancer, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) disorder and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) thanks to leading-edge cell- and gene-based therapies. But numerous obstacles to progress could slow down those advances including insufficient evidence of effectiveness and market-driven... Read More »
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Keck Medicine of USC has named Jehni Robinson, MD, as president of USC Care Medical Group (USC Care), a faculty practice plan composed of Keck Medicine physicians at hospitals and ambulatory locations. Robinson, who is the chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of... Read More »
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
In alignment with the LA County Department of Public Health Public Health Officer Order announced July 15, USC is now requiring masking indoors for all individuals in campus facilities, including vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, to protect yourself and others from transmission. To continue reading this story, click here.... Read More »
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Keck Medicine of USC is working with Caltech, the University of Arizona, and Baylor College of Medicine to bring wearable fitness device data into the clinical space. Health monitoring devices such as Fitbit and Apple Watch have become common in recent years, and many of them gather key health metrics... Read More »
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Cilia, microscopic hairlike structures found along the bronchi (air passages throughout the lungs), are the first line of defense against environmental pollutants, viruses and bacteria. But we know little about how they are arranged, how they move or even how they are oriented—all factors which likely impact how well they... Read More »
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Monday, July 19, 2021
A new USC study of a large and diverse group of Medicaid enrollees finds Latino patients had starkly higher odds of a positive COVID-19 test — as well as higher odds of hospitalization and death — than white patients. The study of racial and ethnic differences in COVID-19 testing and... Read More »
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Monday, July 19, 2021
Cash rewards work, but not all rewards are created equal. This is according to a new study which leveraged two cash incentive tools in a low-income community. It turns out, the risk of losing a cash incentive is a particularly strong motivator even when anticipated reward amounts are equal. “We... Read More »
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Friday, July 16, 2021
USC Professor Scott E. Fraser is known for inventing new microscopes and other tools to observe living, developing embryos. But one of his lab’s most important pieces of technology filters coffee instead of light: it’s a restaurant-quality Espresso machine. “I wanted to make a place where people would come to steal coffee,” he... Read More »
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
Patients and staff will have an easier time finding their way around the Health Sciences Campus thanks to new signs now posted at certain clinical building entrances. Healthcare Centers 1 and 4, the Willametta Keck Day Healthcare Center (aka HC2) and Norris Healthcare Center (aka HC3) now bear these clear... Read More »
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
The Keck School of Medicine of USC's Department of Medical Education announced the appointment of David Diller, MD, MHPE, as assistant dean for clinical curriculum, effective July 1, 2021, and Tanisha Price-Johnson, PhD, as associate dean for student affairs, effective Aug. 1, 2021. To continue reading this story, click here.... Read More »