What can looking at the brains of transgender people tell us about the physical and mental health resources they might need?
Not very much — yet.
But that is starting to change, said Jonathan Vanhoecke, MS, a budding expert … Read More »
If you’re worried about Alzheimer’s disease, your best shot at prevention could be maintaining cardiovascular health through exercise and diet and staying on top of conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
That’s because USC researchers suspect healthy blood vessels … Read More »
When 13-year-old Hudson Stimmler told his parents he couldn’t hear from his left ear in December 2017, they didn’t take him too seriously.
“We’d talk to him, and he would respond,” said his mother Meghan Stimmler, who is a registered nurse. … Read More »
Greg Harlan, MD, spends most of his days teaching or practicing medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the university’s hospitals. But for the past six months, instead of heading home after … Read More »
It’s an unforeseen side effect of the nation’s opioid epidemic: adolescent heroin users.
A USC study in the July 8 issue of JAMA Pediatrics shows that teens who use prescription opioids to get high are more likely to start … Read More »
On June 29, the Keck Medicine of USC stroke team participated in the 22nd Annual Proyecto Pastoral Women’s Conference in Boyle Heights. More than 400 women attended workshops and lectures that focused on health, wellness and women empowerment.
The team offered … Read More »
What is resilience? And why can trauma and stress leave one person reeling, while someone else may coast through the same troubles with just a shrug and a smile?
That’s the heart of the research conducted at the … Read More »
Keck Hospital of USC was one of only two hospitals in all of California to perform better than the state average for a specific combination of heart procedures in the most recently released California Report on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft … Read More »
USC’s groundbreaking stem cell research and training programs have received a major boost thanks to a $10 million gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
The donation is part of the foundation’s latest $30 million funding initiative to support its namesake … Read More »
At first glance, the statistics for lung cancer may seem dire. But look closer and there’s more — much more — to the story. It’s true that lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death among men and women … Read More »
Distill years of complicated research into an “elevator pitch” lasting just three minutes.
Ten USC School of Pharmacy graduate students took on that challenge in the school’s third Three-Minute Thesis competition on June 14.
Topics included new cancer treatment methods, adjunct therapy … Read More »
Men who want to improve their libido or build body mass may want to think twice before using testosterone-boosting supplements — also known as “T boosters” — as research shows these alternatives to traditional testosterone replacement therapy may not have … Read More »
USC researchers have discovered a secret sauce in the brain’s vascular system that preserves the neurons needed to keep dementia and other diseases at bay.
The finding, in a mouse model of the human brain, focuses on a specific cell called … Read More »
Move over, gamers. There are some new players in the world of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR).
Increasingly, health care providers are looking to the immersive nature of VR as a way to treat myriad conditions. In fact, the market … Read More »
If anyone has a clear vision of the power of stem cell cures, it’s Anna Kuehl. She suffered a retina-wrecking disease that cost her much of her sight before USC physicians surgically implanted stem cells to restore her ability to see.
Today, … Read More »
Like the infamous “Joe Camel” advertisements for cigarettes in the 1980s and 90s, the use of cartoon characters in ads for e-cigarettes and e-liquids may be attracting young people to the nicotine-delivery products, according to a new USC study.
The newly … Read More »
For the third straight year, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), an affiliate of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named the top pediatric hospital in the western United States, according to the U.S. News & World … Read More »
Edward Grant, MD, already had a distinguished career by the time he came to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 2002 as chair of the Department of Radiology. He had made his mark as chair of the imaging … Read More »
One day, you may walk into your doctor’s office and come out with a diet that’s been personalized for your unique genetic makeup. Your “prescription”: nutritional recommendations tailored to your DNA.
Nutrigenomics is a field still in its infancy but it … Read More »
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., expected to cause about 51,000 deaths in 2019. But until now, it was unclear which drugs were most effective for which patients.
Researchers at the USC Norris … Read More »