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.
Researchers observed a 23% drop in opioid prescriptions and a 27% increase in prescriptions for naloxone.
An analysis of historical seismic events by a USC Dornsife scientist helps explain why large tsunamis still occur after relatively small earthquakes.
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.
Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC move experimental drug closer to approval for clinical use.
The American Life in Real-time project includes numbers from vulnerable and historically underrepresented populations to help improve health care across the board.
A team of USC Dornsife scientists finds new evidence of how the protein emerin functions and how it may be linked to a rare and debilitating form of muscular dystrophy.
Model from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics plays key role in report form the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
Key to the repair strategy examined in the USC study is a gene with a fittingly heroic name: Sonic hedgehog.
The research helped establish clean-air norms and inspired dozens of spinoff studies on air quality.
USC Dornsife’s Alison Dundes Renteln will examine the ways in which laws address and protect traditional beliefs, stories and cultural ideas.
Study suggests changes in strength and mobility may depend on genetic variations in a critical mitochondrial enzyme and provides a new biomarker linked to age-related muscle health.
A USC analysis of data collected from more than 82,000 autistic children across seven years reveals significant differences in their health care utilization according to sex, race and ethnicity.
The chemicals, which are present in a wide range of consumer and industrial products, break down very slowly and accumulate in the environment and in human tissue, including the liver.
USC Professor Valter Longo and a colleague describe the “longevity diet,” a way of eating that considers food composition and calorie intake as well as the length and frequency of fasting.
Predicting the variables that could lead to damaging alcohol use in post-surgical cases may spur lifesaving interventions, a USC study finds.
A rare surgical procedure performed by a Keck Medicine of USC orthopaedic surgeon allows a patient to get back to normal life.
EARTH WEEK: Wood burning stoves are fouling the air in Fairbanks. USC Viterbi is bringing together students from across the university to clean the city’s air with “chimney cherries” that filter out smoke particles.
EARTH WEEK: University scientists and engineers aim to replace plastics and batteries with more sustainable, degradable resources for the future.
EARTH WEEK: The medical community’s mission is to improve health, but that can also contribute to climate change.
The problem is especially prevalent among the underrepresented, USC Price research finds.
Research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC suggests an important connection between good cholesterol particles and brain health.
USC Price research highlights need for policy changes to ensure better retirement paths for workers from Mexico.
USC Viterbi’s Wei Wu believes better understanding how the cerebellum makes decisions can lead to greatly improved micro-drone technology.