On March 30, Keck Medicine of USC celebrated National Doctors’ Day, a time when the health system acknowledges the vital contributions physicians make throughout the enterprise.
“Although this celebration occurs annually, … Read More »
Steven D. Shapiro, MD, who has been named to the newly created position of senior vice president for health affairs at USC, visited the Health Sciences Campus recently, accompanied by Keck Medicine of USC … Read More »
Fifteen percent of the U.S. population has chronic kidney disease. At its most severe, end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) requires patients to receive dialysis regularly or have a kidney transplant. According to the CDC, over 750,000 people in the … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC rose in U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 edition of Best Medical Schools: Research, moving to 29th from 31st a year ago.
“I am very pleased that the Keck School … Read More »
John D. Carpten, PhD, founding chair for the Department of Translational Genomics in the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named to the 2021 class of fellows of the American Association for … Read More »
To Gerald Loeb, the U.S. health care system is a wasteful mess that all too often fails patients.
Physicians, good intentions notwithstanding, sometimes misdiagnose medical conditions because they don’t recall them from … Read More »
The good news: 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been injected into the arms of Americans by March 19, 2021. The bad news: Black and Hispanic Americans are receiving smaller shares of the vaccine compared to their … Read More »
Proving a link between toxic airborne substances in war zones and resulting respiratory illness has been a challenge for many veterans who were deployed in Southwest Asia during post-9/11 wars. Deployment to this region exposed servicemembers to a … Read More »
Laura Mosqueda, MD, is as amazed as anyone at how far COVID-19 vaccination efforts have come in the last few months. However, as she sees mass vaccination clinics administer thousands of doses per … Read More »
Trevor Lee has seen his fair share of tears over the past several months.
As a fourth-year student at the USC School of Pharmacy, Lee has worked at two COVID-19 Los Angeles … Read More »
Andrea Banuelos Mota and her family — mother Magdalena Banuelos, husband Jose Luis Rodriquez and 8-month-old son Joey — gathered in front of her computer at her San Fernando home early March 19. When the email arrived, they … Read More »
One year into the pandemic, it is still unclear what the effects of the coronavirus and stay-at-home orders have been on health care utilization and patients seeking care unrelated to COVID-19 symptoms.
In a new … Read More »
Traffic on Flower Street has been thicker than normal as cars queue up to enter the parking garage near the southeast corner of USC’s University Park Campus, where the city is operating its newest vaccination site. The clinic’s … Read More »
The essence of translational medicine is taking an idea from the drawing board and “translating” it into a real-world treatment that helps patients. The winding road of that process takes plenty of time, money and expertise, so it … Read More »
USC postdoctoral researcher Xi Chen knows that you have to break a few eggs in order to grow chicken stem cells. His work on maintaining embryonic stem cells (ESC) from chicken eggs provides insight into stem cell pluripotency … Read More »
Even though a fruit fly doesn’t have ears, it can hear with its antennae. In a new study published in the journal Development, USC Stem Cell scientists describe how adult flies can regenerate sensory hearing cells … Read More »
One year ago this month, the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and child care centers to close and many working parents — especially working mothers — were thrust into new roles as teachers and day care providers as schools … Read More »
The USC School of Pharmacy has received a $5 million gift to create a new center that will seek to reduce hospitalizations and emergency room visits by making the medicine we consume safer and more efficient.