The USC Verdugo Hills Hospital has acquired a da Vinci Surgical System Robot for minimally invasive, robotic-assisted prostatectomies. Mike Nguyen, MD, MPH, associate professor of clinical urology, and Rene Sotelo, MD, professor of clinical urology at Keck Medicine of USC, … Read More »
The USC Center for Body Computing (CBC) has announced its foundation partners for the Virtual Care Clinic (VCC), a program that can connect anyone who owns a smartphone with Keck Medicine of USC experts by using cutting-edge technologies developed at … Read More »
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital has reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). USC Verdugo Hills Hospital employees represented by SEIU include certified nursing assistants and lab technicians.
“The collaborative efforts of all our … Read More »
Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, has been elected president of the clinical chairs of the Keck School of Medicine, a position that also serves as president of USC Care Medical Group, Keck Medicine of USC leaders announced recently.
“The role of the … Read More »
Too much residential traffic removes the protective effect a specific gene has on lowering asthma risk, according to a new USC study.
Children could have zero, one or two copies of a common gene variant.
“Environmental exposures such as traffic-related air pollution … Read More »
USC researchers have identified a gene variant that decreases the risk of heart disease — but only among women.
Hooman Allayee, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, … Read More »
Members of the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN), which includes USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Stephen B. Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH, met with White House senior officials in January to discuss how the group can serve … Read More »
Alumni, current scholarship recipients, parents and other friends of the Keck School of Medicine of USC will gather to honor two very notable alumni and a beloved faculty member on March 12 at the 2016 Keck Scholarship Gala.
This year’s honorees … Read More »
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined 68 of the nation’s top cancer centers in a joint statement urging parents and physicians to vaccinate young people against Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
“The HPV vaccination is a safe, effective way to prevent cancers … Read More »
For this year’s Broad Fellow, Gabriel R. Linares, PhD, science is personal.
“I have to say the turning point that spiked my interest in science was when I was in high school and my grandfather suffered a stroke,” he said. “I … Read More »
An emeritus professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC who was an expert in the epidemiology of blood-borne infections, James Wilson Mosley, MD, died after a long illness in November in Los Angeles. He is survived … Read More »
The importance of diversity to college campuses has been in the media spotlight recently, but the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been a leader in this arena for more than 40 years.
Founded in 1968, the Office of Diversity at … Read More »