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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy faculty members Arameh Anvarizadeh, OTD, OTR/L and Sarah Bream, OTD/OTR/L, and alumnus Bryant Edwards, OTD, MA (both from USC Chan), OTR/L, BCP, MPH, are running for volunteer leadership positions in the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The 2024 election period will be open... Read More »
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
A study from USC Stem Cell's Rong Lu Lab has discovered 40 genes that play different roles in building and maintaining the body's various immune cells. The findings, published in Science Advances, could serve as a starting point for improving immune-system-related treatments and procedures, including the optimization of bone marrow... Read More »
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
A new study from the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics confirms that dementia diagnoses increased across the United States after Medicare Advantage (MA) began calculating plan payments to account for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The change gives MA plans financial incentive to improve dementia... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
A new white paper released by the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and the Aspen Institute’s Health Medicine & Society Program offers recommendations for how hospitals can evolve to meet growing expectations while remaining financially viable. The white paper provided eight recommendations — four to hospital and health system... Read More »
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
In a recent study from the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, three groups of children — neurotypical children, those with developmental coordination disorder and others diagnosed as autistic — colored and played games on computer tablets. Collected data included how hard kids were pressing, and the... Read More »
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
University Student Health and USC pharmacies — owned by the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences — and have successfully added two pharmacy vending machines to the University Park Campus. While the first vending machine, built in 2019, is located on the Health Sciences Campus, the... Read More »
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Monday, January 22, 2024
At some point in the future, Brillouin microscopy — which creates images by measuring viscoelasticity — may be able to be used in lieu of surgery to diagnose certain vocal trauma in professional singers and speakers. Michael Johns, MD, founder of USC Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery's voice center... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
In a new paper published in Nature Communications, USC Stem Cell scientists from the Bell Lab have released a study on DNA condensation in human cell nuclei and how variations in its loop-like structure can have far-reaching effects on human health. To read the story, click here. ... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Steve Kay, PhD, head of convergent research initiatives for the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has created a new approach to developing collaborations between academic disciplines. Last year, he brought medical researchers together with computer and electrical engineering experts from USC Viterbi, then had them rotate through a series... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The latest federal Higher Education Research and Development Survey puts USC within an exclusive pack of 13 private universities whose research expenditures top $1 billion annually, with a significant portion of expenditures coming from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Research expenditures are a nationally recognized measure of a university’s... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Keck Medicine of USC and its Care for the Caregiver program have partnered with USC Dornsife Public Exchange and the Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research to address physician burnout, a widespread problem currently impacting thousands of clinical care providers and their patients. The project, known as The Thrive... Read More »