George Benton, 88, lived for his wife, Norma. Theirs was a 63-year love affair.
Thanks to exceptional care at Keck Hospital of USC, he now remembers his late spouse fondly following a string of harrowing physical hurdles he had to overcome.
After … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC has received a generous $100,000 donation from PUMA for the Selena Gomez Fund for Lupus Research, two years after the singer/actress established the fund. The … Read More »
Physicians of Keck Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have been recognized by Pasadena Magazine in its annual Top Doctors issue.
Pasadena Magazine’s Top Doctors issue lists practicing physicians in Pasadena and surrounding cities in … Read More »
Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC are looking to technology to help deconstruct expert surgeons’ robotic surgery skills so they can create an objective, standardized way to train the next generation of surgeons. Using a data … Read More »
Concepción Navarrete was worried about her health. At 63, the mother of two adult children was pre-diabetic and had high blood pressure, but didn’t know what to do about it. She was eating the wrong foods. And although she was … Read More »
Anyone with arthritis can appreciate how useful it would be if scientists could grow cartilage in the lab. To this end, Keck School of Medicine of USC scientists in the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Denis Evseenko, … Read More »
Remember the suspenseful scene in a Mission: Impossible movie when Tom Cruise sneaks into a vault? He had to make all sorts of moves to avoid detection. That’s what it’s like to sneak a targeted drug into a kidney and keep it … Read More »
A research team led by USC scientists has developed a new way to identify molecular markers of breast cancer tumors, a potentially life-saving breakthrough that could lead to better treatment for millions of women.
Aided by machine learning, the researchers taught … Read More »
Since joining USC Student Health as executive director and division chief for counseling and mental health last fall, Robert Mendola, MD, has worked to expand students’ access to mental health services on the University Park and Health Sciences campuses.
Mendola, a board … Read More »
Deirdre Logan, MD, MMM, a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist and alumna, will join USC Student Health in October as the second full-time physician devoted to the care of female students at USC.
Logan returns to her alma mater after 14 years at … Read More »
In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) technology has begun proving its worth outside the world of gaming, with applications in education, health care, military training and beyond. Now researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute … Read More »