Patients face numerous administrative barriers to get financial help information from hospitals according to a “secret shopper” study from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. While more than 86% of hospitals contacted offer financial … Read More »
Trojan students, faculty and staff kicked off LGBTQ+ Pride Month on Monday, June 3 with a powerful virtual program that included remarks by USC President Carol L. Folt, followed by a pride flag raising ceremony on the USC Health Sciences … Read More »
The Simms/Mann Family Foundation has gifted 10 Keck Medicine of USC nurses $10,000 each as part of the foundation’s Off the Chart: Rewarding Nursing Greatness campaign. The gift celebrates the bold leadership of Los Angeles nurses and their continued innovation … Read More »
Three faculty members from the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences are among 10 USC researchers to receive Zumberge Preliminary Studies Research Awards from the USC Office of Research and … Read More »
In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have designed and implanted a transparent window in the skull of a patient. The implant was then … Read More »
The USC Roski Eye Institute is at the forefront of three separate clinical trials exploring new medications to treat thyroid eye disease (TED), a condition that causes the eyes to bulge and leads to vision loss, double … Read More »
Paula Cannon, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology with the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has become the president of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT), the world’s … Read More »
On May 28, Paul Krekorian, president of the Los Angeles City Council, recognized May 2024 as Brain Tumor Awareness Month for the first time in the city’s history and honored the USC Brain Tumor Center, part of … Read More »
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.
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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 »