According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease; by the year 2050, the number could triple unless developments in medicine can slow or reverse the pace.
Researchers, clinicians and students gathered at USC on … Read More »
Two Keck School of Medicine of USC postdoctoral scholars recently received fellowships from the prestigious A.P. Giannini Foundation. Lindsey Mork, PhD, received her fellowship based on her work with craniofacial development, and Elinne Becket, PhD, received hers for … Read More »
Directors of the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation visited the USC Health Sciences Campus on Mar. 31, to hear presentations from Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty and meet with participants in the Baxter Foundation Student Research … Read More »
International biopharmaceutical business leader Robert A. Bradway has been elected to the USC Board of Trustees. Bradway is chairman and CEO of Amgen Inc., the world’s largest independent biotechnology company.
Headquartered in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Amgen has 20,000 employees … Read More »
More than 500 luminaries in the entertainment, medical science, technology and business sectors gathered for the second annual Rebels With A Cause event held on March 20, resulting in the largest total funds raised to date at one … Read More »
Pavitra Krishnamani was only 16 when she entered USC through the Resident Honors Program, but she quickly became involved in a wide range of activities — from tutoring community students to founding a dance team to editing health … Read More »
As students complete their third year in the Doctor of Pharmacy Program, they begin to consider the rotations they will pursue next year. To facilitate that, the USC School of Pharmacy held a preceptor fair on March 28 at Harry … Read More »
Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital CEO Scott Evans (left) and hospitals Emergency Management Officer Robert Vance (right) present at $13,000 check to American Red Cross representative Stephanie Pell at a recent Keck Huddle meeting. The funds … Read More »
A new procedure at Keck Medicine of USC may give people with severe, uncontrolled asthma a much-needed breath of life. The medical center is among the first in the United States to offer bronchial thermoplasty, an outpatient treatment … Read More »
Richard Binggeli, a professor, researcher and psychologist at the Keck School of Medicine of USC for nearly three decades, died March 16 after a long battle with thyroid cancer. He was 76.
Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Richard to Los … Read More »
A first-ever analysis by Keck Medicine of USC clinician scientists indicates that adolescents and young adults who develop thyroid cancer as a secondary cancer are six times more likely to die than those with primary thyroid cancer.
The findings, … Read More »
The Endocrine Society has named Frank Z. Stanczyk, PhD, professor of research in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Preventive Medicine, to the Sex Steroid Assay Reporting Task Force that will recommend policies on measurement reporting requirements … Read More »
Voices rose and fell at a fevered pitch around Kathleen Seaton as white envelopes were opened. The Keck School of Medicine of USC fourth-year student took a deep breath and tore open the envelope that would reveal her fate.
Kathleen glanced … Read More »
Strong leadership is vital to Keck Medicine of USC’s strategy to become one of the nation’s great academic medical centers and to develop a comprehensive system of acute care and ambulatory centers. To help consolidate leadership across USC’s medical enterprise, … Read More »
As part of multi-year partnership with the Los Angeles Times, USC will host the LA Times Festival of Books at the University Park campus April 12 and 13.
In its fourth year at the USC campus, the Festival of Books will … Read More »
Colon cancer research at USC received a boost from the Southern California-based Dhont Family Foundation, as the foundation renewed its commitment of its $1 million gift to fund Heinz-Josef Lenz’s research in colorectal cancer at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer … Read More »
Keck School of Medicine of USC neuroscientists have unlocked a piece of the puzzle in the fight against Lou Gehrig’s disease, a debilitating neurological disorder that robs people of their motor skills.
Their findings appear in the March 3, 2014, online … Read More »
The women of Keck Medicine of USC definitely made an impact at the annual USC Women’s Conference. The women spoke of what made them choose medicine, what impact they feel they are having in health care, what myths, trends or … Read More »
A new Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC study not only uncovered new details on how bundles of nerves and arteries interact with stem cells but also showcased revolutionary techniques for following the cells as they function in living animals.
Principal … Read More »
A Mar. 25 story on NBC News featured Leslie Saxon, MD, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School, about body sensors and how individuals can track their fitness.
A March 24 The … Read More »