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October 4, 2018 |
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Innovators present advances in digital health care at Body Computing ConferenceWhat do Marines trying to make it through boot camp and senior citizens trying to make it to a doctor's appointment have in common? They both can benefit from digital health tools, according to digital innovators at the 12th Annual Body Computing Conference. |
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Andy McMahon, collaborators tune into organ concertEvery minute of every day, your organs are using a complex language to communicate with each other about the basic physiological processes necessary for life. To decipher this little-known language, USC Stem Cell scientist Andy McMahon, PhD, has joined forces with top scientists at Harvard and Stanford universities under the auspices of the NIH Director's Transformative Research Award. |
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Do price spikes on some generic drugs indicate problems in the market?A new USC study reports that sudden price spikes for some generic drugs — such as the recently reported increases of a decades-old generic heart medication and an antibiotic — are becoming more common. The portion of generic drugs that at least doubled in price year-over-year represents a small but growing share of the market. |
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USC team performs daunting heart valve procedureA USC CardioVascular Thoracic Institute (CVTI) team has successfully implanted a mitral valve replacement using a minimally invasive catheter procedure. This is the first transcatheter mitral valve replacement ever to be performed with this device in California. |
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