Major expansion of open-source neuroimaging data set to boost stroke recovery research
A USC-led team of researchers releases expanded data set of brain scans from stroke patients in the hopes of speeding up large-scale stroke recovery research.
‘Death investigators’ key part of LGBTQ+ health equity research
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: No standard statistics exist to record the number of deaths each year for those who identify as LGBTQ+. Their lives — and deaths — are literally not counted.
Risk of death surges when extreme heat and air pollution coincide
Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers used a new analytic approach to study more than 1.5 million deaths across California.
School-based intervention aims to reduce behavioral health impact for LGBTQ+ youth
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: First-of-its-kind Proud & Empowered offers prevention and reduction approach for traumatic adolescent experiences.
Roe v. Wade repeal may exacerbate women’s health inequities even as candidates use it to gain votes, USC experts say
Health experts see abortion as a public health issue — but in politics, it’s a campaign issue and this is a critical election year.
Students learn the power of yoga and mindfulness
A Maymester course heavy on exercise and meditation is part of a new minor aimed at helping students take control of their health.
Willingness to give away money among older adults linked to cognitive profile of early Alzheimer’s
Participants who gave away more money scored significantly lower on cognitive tests known to be sensitive to Alzheimer’s disease than those who gave less, a USC study finds.
Groundbreaking study shows substantial differences in brain structure in people with anorexia
New findings from the largest study to date by an international group of neuroscience experts show significant reductions in gray matter in people with anorexia nervosa.
Stress accelerates aging of immune system, study finds
Everyday stressors, traumatic events, job strain and discrimination prematurely weaken the body’s mix of immune cells, potentially increasing a person’s risk of disease.
Your Brain on Air Pollution
Research at USC is helping define the environment’s impact on the brain. Growing evidence links the long-term effects of dirty air to accelerated cognitive decline and dementia, and USC researchers hope to better understand environmental effects and gene-environment interactions on brain health.
Failures in the generic drug market cost patients millions
Growing evidence suggests that U.S. consumers overpay for generics by as much as 20% while pharmacy benefit managers pad profits, a USC Schaeffer Center white paper finds.
Study find links between inflammatory bowel disease and depression
The Keck Medicine of USC study finds the links also extend to siblings of patients with inflammatory bowel disease or depression.
Deaf children with learning delays benefit from cochlear implants more than hearing aids
A Keck Medicine of USC study demonstrates the need for early cochlear implant use for deaf children, regardless of developmental impairments.
USC awarded more than $16 million for research on vascular dysfunction, Alzheimer’s disease
Grant from the National Institute on Aging will fund research on the role that blood vessel dysfunction plays in the development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles awarded $3 million to study opioid use in hospitalized infants
Researchers receive grant to study the long-term influence of opioids, a class of powerful painkillers, on hospitalized, critically ill infants.
Improving music appreciation for the world’s more than 700,000 cochlear implant users
For more than 700,000 cochlear implant users worldwide, music appreciation is not always what it should be. Raymond Goldsworthy and USC’s Bionic Ear Lab are working to change that.
Driven to advance health care, nonprofit director graduates with online MBA
COMMENCEMENT 2022: USC’s reputation drew Olivia Stroud to the university’s online MBA program.
Exposure to air pollution can worsen patient outcomes from COVID-19
A study by researchers of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Kaiser Permanente finds a link between exposure to airborne particulate matter and increased risk of serious coronavirus complications.
Electronic ‘nudges’ may improve safety in opioid prescribing among California doctors, study finds
Researchers observed a 23% drop in opioid prescriptions and a 27% increase in prescriptions for naloxone.
USC and Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University announce strategic partnership
The agreement creates dynamic interdisciplinary educational tracks for students in the rapidly growing, high-demand fields of biomedical engineering and regulatory science.
How a routine eye exam saved a patient’s life
Anne Crile noticed changes in her vision, but she never imagined those symptoms would lead to the diagnosis of a life-threatening brain tumor.
Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and MTV Entertainment establish Mental Health Storytelling Initiative
A coalition of more than 60 entertainment industry partners and mental health expert organizations will work to revolutionize the narrative on mental health and extend programming and research into media representation of the issue.
USC receives historic cryptocurrency gift to support cardiovascular care, research and education
Wen Hou’s $1.1 million gift will support clinicians and researchers advancing the diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions.
Research award accelerates USC’s work on next-generation cell therapy for prostate cancer
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine awards $5.8 million to researchers in the Jane Ann Nohl Division of Hematology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.