A multidisciplinary team from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC School of Cinematic Arts produced a short film, “The Tamale Lesson,” and demonstrated the power of narrative storytelling to educate women from various cultural backgrounds about cervical cancer.
USC researchers are exploring ways to use mobile phones and text-messaging to improve compli¬ance with diabetes regimens for patients seen in the emergency department at LA County + USC Medical Center.
Latino and African American children are less likely to receive a timely autism diagnosis than their white counterparts. Delays in diagnosis lead to delayed treatment, which in turn decreases the chances of good long-term outcomes. So under¬standing and reducing disparities in t…
The Southern California city of Long Beach is home to American’s second largest port, a large municipal airport, and some of the busiest free¬ways in the country. As a result, Long Beach has some of the highest rates of both air pollution and asthma in the United States; 30% of …
Heart disease is the number one killer for all Americans, and stroke is the fourth leading cause of death. Hispanics and Latinos face a particu¬larly high risk of these cardiovascular diseases because of high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes. Monolingual Spanish speakers of…
Patients who receive health care in complex public health systems often encounter significant barriers and delays when they are referred from their primary providers to specialists.
SC CTSI’s KL2 Scholar Mimi S. Kim, MD, MSc, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC and co-director, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Comprehensive Care Clinic, CHLA, wondered if a novel application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could be us…
While a scholar in SC CTSI’s KL2 program, William J. Mack, MD, associate professor of neurological surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC and director of The Neurointerventional Program at USC, investigated how doctors could manipulate the body’s natural inflammation response t…
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