The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), California’s state stem cell agency, has appointed Carolyn Meltzer, MD, dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, to its leadership board. She joins 35 Californians … Read More »
Angel Arizpe, MPH, a third year PhD student in the epidemiology program, has been awarded $10,000 from the Healthy Americas Research Consortium (HARC) Todos Juntos Grants to support his research on cancer-related health disparities faced by Hispanic communities in the … Read More »
Among the aims of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), one is to reduce health care costs for older adults by eliminating cost sharing for certain drugs and vaccines covered by Medicare Part D. To help determine if the impact matches … Read More »
Serghei Mangul, PhD, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy and quantitative and computational biology at the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has earned a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for the 2024–2025 academic … Read More »
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have found that a 0.68 milligram per liter increase in fluoride exposure may nearly double the chance of a child showing neurobehavioral problems in a range considered close to or at … Read More »
Readers of USC Health, Keck Medicine of USC’s patient- and community-facing magazine, can find the latest issue online at KeckMedicine.org/magazine. Print copies are also en route to Keck Medicine clinical locations and mailboxes across southern California.
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A new Keck Medicine of USC study published in Leukemia Research suggests that a bone marrow transplant from a haploidentical (half-identical) relative may greatly increase patients’ odds of success, in addition to being easier to find.
Patients who received their … Read More »
Compared to Black and Asian people, white and Hispanic people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias were more likely to be diagnosed with symptoms like depression and agitation, according to a new study from the USC Schaeffer … Read More »
Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have found that iron is a key regulator of energy usage by immune cells in the lungs, and that targeting iron uptake could help treat asthma and other allergic diseases.
The findings … Read More »
In honor of Mother’s Day, the ambulatory infusion teams have distributed roses to patients who visited USC Norris Cancer Day Hospital, the Norris Healthcare Center Treatment Center and Women’s Specialty Care Clinic, as well as Keck Medicine of … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC has launched the USC Nursing Institute to promote education, leadership development, clinical expertise and research among nurses.
The institute will support nurses across the health system’s four hospitals and more than 100 clinic locations to ensure nurses have … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC hospitals and USC Student Health, part of Keck Medicine, received the ‘LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader’ designation in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2024 Healthcare Equality Index (HEI).
The HEI is the leading national benchmarking survey … Read More »
A global team of researchers led by Sook-Lei Liew, PhD, of USC’s Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, has revealed that areas of age-related damage in the brain relate to motor outcomes … Read More »
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, director of research for the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, has become a regular advisory presence on Capitol Hill. In his most recent testimony before the U.S. Senate, … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC’s five commencement ceremonies will feature four renowned leaders in medicine, research and public policy. (California’s Surgeon General Diana E. Ramos MD, MPH, MBA, will speak at two ceremonies.)
In keeping … Read More »
Arash Motamed, MD, medical director for operating rooms at Keck Hospital of USC and medical director of sustainability for Keck Medicine of USC, is making Keck Hospital operating rooms more sustainable.
For the eighth time in five years, Keck Hospital of USC has earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization.
The Leapfrog Group ratings, released every fall and spring, are based on over 30 … Read More »
As part of a program commemorating National Donate Life Month, the USC Transplant Institute hosted a flag-raising ceremony on April 17 in front of Keck Hospital of USC. The event aimed to recognize and celebrate eye, organ, … Read More »
Scientists from USC Stem Cell have reported significant progress in cultivating nephron progenitor cells (NPCs), the cells destined to form nephrons, which make up the kidney’s filtration system.
NPCs hold immense promise for understanding kidney development, modeling diseases, … Read More »
On April 17, the 2024 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Awards recognized Keck Medical Center of USC for finding a way to save over 1.7 million gallons of water in a single year.
Each year, the LADWP Key … Read More »
