31 results match your criteria: "From the University of Southern California[Affiliation]"
A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study of Antibiotics for OnabotulinumtoxinA.
Urogynecology (Phila)
December 2024
From the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Importance: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common complication of intradetrusor onabotulinumtoxinA (BTX-A) injection. Despite this, there are no evidence-based guidelines on antibiotic prophylaxis.
Objectives: Our primary aim was to determine whether antibiotic prophylaxis decreased symptomatic, culture-proven UTI rates within 6 weeks of intradetrusor BTX-A injection.
Moving to Shared Equity: Locational Outcomes for Households in Shared Equity Homeownership Programs.
Hous Stud
September 2022
Grounded Solutions Network, where he leads the effort of tracking the scope, trends, and impacts of inclusionary housing and shared equity homeownership programs. Previously, Vince worked at the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies at the University of Florida, where he received a master's and doctorate in urban and regional planning.
Physical Pain Among Urban Native American Emerging Adults: Sociocultural Risk and Protective Factors.
Psychosom Med
September 2024
From the University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work (Saba), Los Angeles, California; RAND (Rodriguez), Boston, Massachusetts; UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Program, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine (Dickerson), Los Angeles; Santa Cruz Indian Council Board of Directors (Mike); Public Health Consultant (Schweigman), Santa Cruz; Sacred Path Indigenous Wellness Center (Arvizu-Sanchez, Johnson), Los Angeles; American Indian Counseling Center (Funmaker), Cerritos; and RAND (Brown, Malika, D'Amico), Santa Monica, California.
Objective: American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people have high rates of physical pain. Pain is understudied in urban-dwelling, AI/AN emerging adults, a group with unique sociocultural risk and protective factors. We explore associations between socioeconomic disadvantage, additional sociocultural factors, and pain among urban AI/AN emerging adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRetinoblastoma Outcomes in the Americas: A Prospective Analysis of 491 Children With Retinoblastoma From 23 American Countries.
Am J Ophthalmol
April 2024
Goldschleger Eye Institute (I.D.F.), Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; and the International Centre for Eye Health (I.D.F.), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Purpose: Globally, disparities exist in retinoblastoma treatment outcomes between high- and low-income countries, but independent analysis of American countries is lacking. We report outcomes of American retinoblastoma patients and explore factors associated with survival and globe salvage.
Design: Subanalysis of prospective cohort study data.
The lip lift is a powerful yet finesse operation in the realm of facial rejuvenation. In an era of increased popularity of nonsurgical lip augmentation, the astute plastic surgeon must identify which patients will end up with an unnatural appearance should they receive volume enhancement alone in pursuit of central facial and perioral rejuvenation. In this article, the authors review the ideal youthful lip appearance, characteristics of the aged lip appearance, and indications for lifting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPET/CT Ultrasound Fusion for Percutaneous Biopsy: A Retrospective Single-Center Study and Review of the Literature.
Clin Nucl Med
August 2022
From the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic yield and complication rate of 18 F-FDG PET/CT ultrasound (US) fusion for percutaneous biopsy of FDG-avid lesions among patients with known or suspected malignancy.
Patients And Methods: We describe the clinical, imaging, and histopathologic features of 36 patients who underwent percutaneous biopsy using real-time PET/CT US fusion. In addition, we review the literature on PET/CT US fusion.
Predicted vs measured posterior corneal astigmatism for toric intraocular lens calculations.
J Cataract Refract Surg
June 2022
From the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
Article Synopsis
Training Death Investigators to Identify Decedents' Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: A Feasibility Study.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol
March 2022
Department of Health Sciences, City University of New York, Lehman College, New York, NY.
Article Synopsis
- There is an increasing push to gather information on the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) of deceased individuals during mortality surveillance, but current death investigators lack training in this area.
- A new training program was developed and tested with 114 death investigators across three states, focusing on improving their ability to collect SOGI information.
- Most participants rated the training positively regarding its relevance and applicability, although only about 80% felt somewhat likely to apply this knowledge in future cases, indicating that supportive leadership may enhance the adoption of SOGI identification practices.
Radium Ra 223 Alpha Therapy for Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis.
Radiol Technol
July 2021
Timothy Strane, MS, is a retired radiopharmacist. He worked for Advocate Aurora St Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for more than 40 years. Timothy obtained a Bachelors of Science in pharmacy from the University of Michigan and an MS in radiopharmacy from the University of Southern California.
Problems with Using Polygenic Scores to Select Embryos.
N Engl J Med
July 2021
From the University of Southern California (P.T.) and the University of California, Los Angeles (D.J.B.) - both in Los Angeles; Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA (M.N.M.); the National Bureau of Economic Research (N.W., D.C., D.J.B., D.L.), Harvard University (E.H., S.H., D.L.), and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT (A.R.M., B.M.N., H.L.R., S.H.) - all in Cambridge, MA; Massachusetts General Hospital (A.R.M., B.M.N., H.L.R.), Harvard Medical School (A.R.M., B.M.N., H.L.R., L.W.-H.), and Brigham and Women's Hospital (L.W.-H.) - all in Boston; New York University, New York (D.C.); and the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (P.M.V.).
Companies have recently begun to sell a new service to patients considering in vitro fertilization: embryo selection based on polygenic scores (ESPS). These scores represent individualized predictions of health and other outcomes derived from genomewide association studies in adults to partially predict these outcomes. This article includes a discussion of many factors that lower the predictive power of polygenic scores in the context of embryo selection and quantifies these effects for a variety of clinical and nonclinical traits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWho Owns the Data in a Medical Information Commons?
J Law Med Ethics
March 2019
Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D., is the Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. McGuire serves on the program committee for the Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics and is immediate past president of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors. She received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from the University of Houston, and a Ph.D. from the Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Jessica L. Roberts, J.D., is the Alumnae College Professor in Law at the University of Houston Law Center and a past recipient of a Greenwall Faculty Scholar grant. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Sean Aas, Ph.D., M.A., is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown. He is also, presently, a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar. He earned a B.A. and B.S. in Philosophy and Mathematics at The Evergreen State College, a M.A. in Philosophy from Georgia State University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brown University. Barbara J. Evans, MS, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., is the Mary Ann and Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Biotechnology & Law at the University of Houston Law Center and holds a joint appointment as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering. She holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Texas at Austin, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.M. in Health Law from University of Houston.
In this paper, we explore the perspectives of expert stakeholders about who owns data in a medical information commons (MIC) and what rights and interests ought to be recognized when developing a governance structure for an MIC. We then examine the legitimacy of these claims based on legal and ethical analysis and explore an alternative framework for thinking about participants' rights and interests in an MIC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnesthetic Considerations in Saul-Wilson Syndrome, a Rare Skeletal Dysplasia: A Case Report.
A A Pract
August 2019
From the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; and Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Saul-Wilson syndrome, also known as microcephalic osteodysplastic dysplasia, is a rare type of dwarfism with significant anesthetic considerations. The genetic defect is associated with nearly uniform micrognathia, odontoid hypoplasia, and possible cervical spine instability that contribute to potentially increased risk of airway complications. Herein, we describe the anesthetic management of a 2-year-old child with Saul-Wilson syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTelerheumatology: The VA Experience.
South Med J
June 2018
From the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
Objectives: We sought to characterize the correlation between diagnoses made during telerheumatology and face-to-face visits and to document patients' satisfaction with telerheumatology visits.
Methods: This quality assurance study of the use of telerheumatology evaluated new patients referred to a Veterans Affairs rheumatology clinic. Patients were seen at a community clinic by a nurse practitioner with a rheumatologist participating in the encounter via telelink.
Physician Payment Reform - Progress to Date.
N Engl J Med
July 2017
From the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (P.B.G.); Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore (K.K.P.); and the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (P.B.G., K.K.P.).
Negotiating Commercial Interests in Biospecimens.
J Law Med Ethics
March 2017
Jessica L. Roberts, J.D., is George Butler Research Professor and the Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, TX. She holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School in New Haven, CT and a B.A. from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. Professor Roberts is a 2018 Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics.
Proposed changes to the Common Rule would require publicly funded researchers to disclose whether a subject's biospecimens could be used for commercial profit and whether the subject will share in those proceeds. Disclosing commercial interests will inform research participants that their tissue may have commercial value, a possibility that those individuals might not have previously considered. The proposed changes may then provide people with an opportunity to negotiate commercial rights in their biospecimens despite the well-accepted legal precedent that individuals maintain no interests in their excised tissue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe role of radiologic evaluation in necrotizing soft tissue infections.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
November 2016
From the University of Southern California, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Background: The role of diagnostic imaging in suspected necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs) is not clear owing to concerns about its value and possible delays in definitive surgical care.
Methods: Plain radiograph (XR) and computed tomography (CT) results of all patients who underwent operative debridement for a presumed NSTI from 2007 through 2014 at LAC + USC Medical Center were reviewed. Preoperative imaging was classified as being negative, suspicious (inflammatory changes), or diagnostic (soft tissue gas) for NSTI.
Renal-Cell Cancer--Targeting an Immune Checkpoint or Multiple Kinases.
N Engl J Med
November 2015
From the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles (D.I.Q.), and the University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento (P.N.L.).
WNT10B enhances proliferation through β-catenin and RAC1 GTPase in human corneal endothelial cells.
J Biol Chem
October 2015
From the University of Southern California Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033
The cornea is the anterior, transparent tissue of the human eye that serves as its main refractive element. Corneal endothelial cells are arranged as a monolayer on the posterior surface of the cornea and function as a pump to counteract the leakiness of its basement membrane. Maintaining the cornea in a slightly dehydrated state is critical for the maintenance of corneal transparency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExpectant Fathers, Abortion, and Embryos.
J Law Med Ethics
December 2016
Assistant professor at Penn State Law. She received a J.D. from The Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and a B.A. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
One thread of abortion criticism, arguing that gender equality requires that men be allowed to terminate legal parental status and obligations, has reinforced the stereotype of men as uninterested in fatherhood. As courts facing disputes over stored pre-embryos weigh the equities of allowing implantation of the pre-embryos, this same gender stereotype has been increasingly incorporated into a legal balancing test, leading to troubling implications for ART and family law.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTeaching international medicine to medical students: a clinical imperative.
South Med J
February 2015
From the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
In search of good ideas for occupational therapy. Previously published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 1994; 1: 7-15.
Scand J Occup Ther
March 2015
From the University of Southern California, Bishop, Callfornia , USA.
This paper explores the scholarly process by which good ideas may be sought for the future development of occupational therapy as an integrated profession. It is suggested that the assumptions of the science supporting practice need to be made explicit and that new ideas be generated which fit the dilemmas and puzzles of occupational therapy practice and are compatible with its view of human beings.
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