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January 28, 2021 |
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Administrators address supply, equity in COVID-19 vaccine distribution for patientsRead what administrators had to say about supply and equity in vaccine distribution from a Jan. 21 briefing, and watch the video here. EVS employees brought their 65+ age family members to campus to get their first dose of the vaccine last week. Meanwhile, researchers are looking at the role COVID has played in the high rate of death among ICE detainees. |
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Husband and wife share life, love — and a kidneyNatalie Quintana had to be sneaky, the day she came to Keck Medicine of USC to see if she was a match to be a living kidney donor for her husband, Johnny. Read about their journey in the latest issue of USC Health magazine. |
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In memoriam: Laurence H. Kedes, MDLaurence H. Kedes, MD, former W.M. Keck Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and inaugural director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, died Jan. 6. |
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Largest, most diverse prostate cancer study identifies new genetic risk factorsA new study has identified 86 new genetic variations that increase risk for prostate cancer, not previously discovered, bringing the total number of risk loci for prostate cancer to 269. The study examined the largest, most diverse genetic analysis ever conducted for prostate cancer — and possibly for any other cancer. |
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