Obesity is a known risk factor for failure of the emergency contraceptive medication levonorgestrel, but researchers are still trying to determine why. A study conducted at USC revealed differences between free levels of the medication and its bioavailable levels that could be k…
Representatives of the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute demonstrated how the organization can help USC and CHLA investigators launch studies, find collaborators, recruit participants—and much, much more.
A SC CTSI-supported study by Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, a pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, found that teens who used opioid pills were more likely to try heroin.
The study addresses gaps in the scientific literature regarding health risks for expectant mothers with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, and their babies.
Following NIH review, University of California, Irvine, researcher Katrine Whiteson needed to resubmit a proposal that met requests to expand the study, but to manage it on a significantly reduced budget. Advisors in the Trial Innovation Network, a researcher-support program of …
Recent improvements to the web-based recruitment tool better enable clinical researchers to advertise their studies via social media and other key online platforms.
USC's Clinical Studies Directory & Research Volunteer Registry make it easy to take part in research studies that might help you or a family member treat a health concern. You'd also be helping to advance medical science.
A highly competitive $4.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will support Keck School of Medicine of USC efforts to recruit patients from underrepresented populations into cardiac surgery clinical trials.
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