Greg Harlan, MD, spends most of his days teaching or practicing medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the university’s hospitals. But for the past six months, instead of heading home after … Read More »

It’s an unforeseen side effect of the nation’s opioid epidemic: adolescent heroin users.

A USC study in the July 8 issue of JAMA Pediatrics shows that teens who use prescription opioids to get high are more likely to start … Read More »

On June 29, the Keck Medicine of USC stroke team participated in the 22nd Annual Proyecto Pastoral Women’s Conference in Boyle Heights. More than 400 women attended workshops and lectures that focused on health, wellness and women empowerment.

The team offered … Read More »

What is resilience? And why can trauma and stress leave one person reeling, while someone else may coast through the same troubles with just a shrug and a smile?

That’s the heart of the research conducted at the … Read More »

Keck Hospital of USC was one of only two hospitals in all of California to perform better than the state average for a specific combination of heart procedures in the most recently released California Report on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft … Read More »