A new book by Steven Sussman, PhD, professor of preventive medicine, psychology and social work, takes a broad, multidisciplinary look at addiction.
“Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures” focuses on two categories of addiction, substance (tobacco, alcohol, other drugs … Read More »
Earlier this year, newborns at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital were gifted with red caps hand-knitted by American Heart Association volunteers across the country to raise awareness for congenital heart defects.
Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defect in the … Read More »
Grace Baranek, PhD, is the newly appointed associate dean and chair of the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. She had previously been at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was associate chair … Read More »
Zea Borok, MD, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and director of the Hastings Center for Pulmonary Research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, will be tackling ambitious research on … Read More »
A surgical team at Keck Medicine of USC pushed the boundaries of clinical care by performing the first-ever robotic, minimally invasive surgical removal of a stage IV tumor thrombus — a kidney cancer tumor that extends into the heart.
The nearly … Read More »