Keck Medicine of USC - Archive Clinical Trials
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2026
June
18,
2026
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16:30 PM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Americans spend more than $1 billion annually on fish oil supplements, in part due to purported cognitive benefits from the omega-3 fatty acids they contain, essential nutrients that help form brain cell …
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February
05,
2026
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04:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than one million people in the United States, with approximately 90,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Although available treatments can help manage …
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2025
December
17,
2025
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness for Americans 65 and older, is a progressive disease affecting central vision. Over time, faces, book pages and anything directly in front of a person …
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July
08,
2025
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13:00 PM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which affects almost two-thirds of the world’s population and is generally associated with oral herpes, may cause painful cold sores or fever blisters around the mouth.Yet, when genetically …
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January
07,
2025
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
B-roll video available for download below. LOS ANGELES — Steam eliminates wrinkles and germs, but can it destroy cancer cells too? Keck Medicine of USC is participating in a national, multisite clinical trial examining if a water …
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2024
March
28,
2024
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — A clinical trial from Keck Medicine of USC will test the feasibility of treating non-small cell lung cancer with immunotherapy provided at home. Immunotherapy, medicines that use the body’s immune system to eliminate …
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March
14,
2024
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — A clinical trial from Keck Medicine of USC aims to provide a surgical solution for patients with a form of advanced pancreatic cancer previously considered inoperable. The study will investigate if chemotherapy followed by a …
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2023
April
30,
2023
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12:25 PM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — No one has ever performed a bladder transplant in humans. But that may be about to change.Urologists with Keck Medicine of USC have launched a clinical trial to perform the world’s first human bladder transplant.The trial is actively …
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March
30,
2023
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07:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — A newly published study paves the way for some patients with testicular cancer to avoid chemotherapy and radiation.Seminoma is a slow-growing form of testicular cancer that if untreated, typically metastasizes (spreads) to lymph nodes …
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March
16,
2023
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07:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — More than 37 million Americans have diabetes, and approximately 90-95% have Type 2 diabetes.Diabetes is a chronic condition where the body does not produce or effectively use insulin. A lack of insulin leads to raised blood glucose …
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2020
October
21,
2020
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05:45 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — An estimated 5.5 million people in the United States live with Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common form of dementia.Keck Medicine of USC is enrolling individuals in an international phase 3 clinical trial to examine the …
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2019
August
26,
2019
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12:28 PM
America/Los_Angeles
In a new study of patients with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited degenerative eye disease that results in poor vision, Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers found that adapted augmented reality (AR) glasses can improve patients’ mobility by …
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July
16,
2019
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08:23 AM
America/Los_Angeles
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 …
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2018
April
04,
2018
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09:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Physicians and researchers at the USC Roski Eye Institute have collaborated with other California institutions to show that a first-in-kind stem cell–based retinal implant is feasible for use in people with advanced dry age-related macular …
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February
27,
2018
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center are recruiting patients at both the precancerous and most advanced stage of cervical cancer to participate in clinical trials developing new immunotherapies for the disease.One of these …
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