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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Keck Medicine of USC has appointed Shannon Bradley, MBA, as the organization’s first-ever chief diversity officer. Bradley will assume the role on Sept. 19. The position involves ensuring key tenets of Keck Medicine’s diversity and inclusion strategy are fully integrated across the system and that metrics are in place to... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Keck Medicine of USC’s Center for Advanced Lung Disease has been designated as one of 74 sites included in the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Care Center Network. These sites are recognized for their efforts in diagnosing, treating and providing support to those living with pulmonary fibrosis (PF), a life-threatening lung disease... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
The USC Roski Eye Institute held an in-person summer program to introduce University of Southern California undergraduate students from underrepresented communities to careers in eye care. The event, “Eye Care for All: An Introduction to a Career in Eye Care,” garnered participation from students across the university. The program was... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Alzheimer's disease researchers have long struggled to fully establish how genetic risk leads to memory loss and cognitive decline. A new study from the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, part of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine for adding a crucial piece... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
The USC Institute for Addiction Science, supported by affiliated USC schools and clinical addiction centers, is partnering with California State University, Los Angeles and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science on a new $1.3 million, five-year training grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to create an... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
A courtesy letter informing physicians when a patient dies of a prescription drug overdose may provide the needed “nudge” to improve prescribing practices, according to a new study from the USC Schaeffer Center and the Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy. According to an earlier USC Schaeffer study,... Read More »
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Monday, August 22, 2022
Keck Hospital of USC has received the 2022 Patient Safety Honor Roll Award from the California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) and Cal Hospital Compare, according to Stephanie L. Hall, MD, MHA, chief medical officer of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital. This is the second... Read More »
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Monday, August 22, 2022
Due to a lack of publicly available data, understanding which medical cannabis products patients use has mostly come from survey responses. In a new study from the USC Schaeffer Center published in JAMA Network Open, researchers established a clearer picture by analyzing point-of-sale data from nearly 17,000 patients who made more... Read More »
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Monday, August 22, 2022
This year, the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation — a long-time supporter of research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and USC Stem Cell — named Albert Almada, PhD, and Miller Huang, PhD, Baxter Foundation Faculty Fellows. To help these scientists early in their career, when... Read More »
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Friday, August 19, 2022
Price growth among system and non-system California hospitals is generally similar, but there is wide variation across hospital systems, according to a new white paper released by the USC Schaeffer Center. The study focused on prices paid by private health plans, since these insurers negotiate prices with hospitals. “There is... Read More »
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Friday, August 19, 2022
The secretome, a group of proteins that are secreted by a cell, a tissue or an organism, helps animals by orchestrating the processes of embryonic development, maintaining organ function and coordinating organ activity through inter-organ communication. In a new study published in Open Biology, Andy McMahon, PD, director of the Eli... Read More »