A new location of the USC Eye Institute is now open at the University Park Campus, offering faculty, staff and their dependents, as well as USC students, a convenient location for their eye care and optical needs.
The office, at 3335 … Read More »
The USC Westside Center for Diabetes, under the direction of Anne Peters, MD, CDE, professor of medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust … Read More »
Advanced Glaucoma Surgery, co-edited by Rohit Varma
Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, has released a new educational book, Advanced Glaucoma Surgery.
Varma, the director of the USC Eye … Read More »
Last August, the Davila family was given devastating news: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) cardiologists confirmed that their 27-week-old fetus suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) with restrictive atrial septum, which prevented blood returning from the fetus’s lungs from … Read More »
Latinas who eat processed meats such as bacon and sausage may have an increased risk for breast cancer, according to a new study that did not find the same association among white women.
The study, published Feb. 22 in … Read More »
Antidepressants can shrink and stunt cancerous brain tumors that are otherwise difficult to treat, an international team of researchers has found.
USC School of Pharmacy researchers who led the study on mice found that the drugs stifle the growth of brain … Read More »
Cyber attacks against health care systems are on the rise, putting sensitive patient data at risk and law enforcement authorities on alert.
Hackers penetrating networks and then demanding money for encrypted information is a growing trend. In February, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical … Read More »
By the time you finish reading this article — about four minutes — someone in America will have had a stroke.
In fact, nearly 800,000 people have strokes in the United States every year. It’s the fifth leading cause of death … Read More »
USC Capital Construction and Development (CCD) recently modified traffic lanes on Alcazar Street as part of the ongoing HSC Beautification Project. The modifications will be in place through May to accommodate sidewalk and street construction on the south side of … Read More »
The USC School of Pharmacy announced the grand opening of its new Walgreens Conference Room with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Feb. 26.
Nearly 18 months in the making, the state-of-the-art conference and learning center, located on the second floor of the … Read More »
We can learn a lot from fly brains, according to Ismael Fernández-Hernández, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Michael Bonaguidi, PhD.
Fernández-Hernández is an accomplished researcher who showed that adult fruit flies have the potential for … Read More »