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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
[caption id="attachment_14860" align="alignright" width="180"] Left to right: Mandi Rub, RN, Annie Nguyen, MD, Theodore, Andy Nguyen. Blanket knitted by Rub. (Photo/Courtesy of USC-VHH)[/caption] The first baby born in 2024 at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital turned out to be a member of the Keck Medicine of USC family. Ophthalmologist Annie Nguyen,... Read More »
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Thursday, January 4, 2024
In a first for USC Stem Cell scientists, the Quadrato Lab has pioneered a novel human brain organoid model that generates all the major cell types of the cerebellum, a brain region predominantly made up of two cell types necessary for movement, cognition and emotion: granule cells and Purkinje neurons.... Read More »
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Thursday, January 4, 2024
According to a new study from the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, adults with hearing loss who regularly use hearing aids have a 24% lower risk of early death than those who never wear them. The findings, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, suggest that... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
A multidisciplinary team including researchers from three USC schools — Viterbi School of Engineering, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Keck School of Medicine of USC — in collaboration with MIT, Sabancı University in Turkey, and the LA County Department of Public Health has released a study determining... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have identified two metabolites, substances produced by the body during metabolism, that may help predict which young Latino people are most likely to develop prediabetes, a precursor to developing type 2 diabetes. The study, funded by the National... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
[caption id="attachment_14803" align="alignright" width="300"] (Photo/Ricardo Carrasco III)[/caption] On Dec. 14, USC President Carol L. Folt, PhD, treated faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Campus to the annual all-staff Holiday Reception. Held on the Broad Lawn, the event provided a welcome opportunity for staff to take a break from their... Read More »
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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Shawn Sheffield, MBA, MHSA, chief strategy officer for Keck Medicine of USC, has been named one of 65 "incredible health system chief strategy officer[s] you should know in 2023" by the Becker's Healthcare publication, Becker's Hospital Review. In a statement, Becker's said, "Chief strategy officers are a guiding light for... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Americans are far less likely to choose a gourmet holiday gift basket without meat or dairy if it is labeled “vegan” or “plant-based,” according to a nationally representative survey from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. By contrast, labeling the basket “healthy” or “sustainable” roughly doubled the... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023
A new study from the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences — in collaboration with University of Cambridge — has confirmed a long-suspected cause for the nausea and vomiting commonly experienced by women during pregnancy. The findings, which appear today in Nature, reveal that a hormone produced by the fetus,... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
As part of a longstanding annual tradition, Pasadena's 2023 Tournament of Roses Royal Court visited USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center on November 28. After sharing breakfast with members of the hospital staff, six princesses and the Rose Queen toured the hospital to learn about the groundbreaking research being conducted every... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
A new partnership between the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy and USA Cycling is giving students enrolled in the master of science program in biokinesiology with a sports science emphasis a rare opportunity — to apply to a one-of-a-kind internship offering practical, hands-on experience with top-tier athletes and... Read More »