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Friday, October 14, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6316" align="alignright" width="225"] USC Verdugo Hills Hospital CEO Keith Hobbs receives the flu vaccine in September. (Photo/Courtesy Katrina Garcia)[/caption] With flu season approaching, Keck Medicine of USC physicians, nurses and staff are being reminded that flu vaccinations are an important step toward protecting patients. The flu is a contagious... Read More »
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Friday, October 14, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6312" align="alignright" width="300"] Shelsy Aragon reacts after a asking her question to the panelists at the Biotech Decade conference, Oct. 1 at East Los Angeles College.(USC Photo/Gus Ruelas)[/caption] Shelsy Aragon was nervous. The 14-year-old was standing in front of hundreds of people in a packed room at East Los Angeles... Read More »
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6304" align="alignright" width="255"] Alexis M. Coulourides Kogan (Photo/Claire Norman)[/caption] Alexis M. Coulourides Kogan, PhD, has received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) as an outstanding postdoctoral researcher to help her complete the needed mentoring and training to transition to an independent, tenure-track faculty position.... Read More »
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
It might surprise you to learn that your cranium is not one continuous smooth bone encasing your brain. It’s actually composed of eight bones, separated by fibrous joints, to give your skull flexibility. That’s the reason babies have “soft spots” and your brain was able to continue growing unabated throughout... Read More »
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6307" align="alignright" width="262"] Some 5 percent of all epilepsy cases (and 20 percent of symptomatic epilepsy cases) arise from traumatic brain injury, such as blows to the temporal lobe (shown in red).(Image/Arthur W. Toga, USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute)[/caption] The USC Laboratory of... Read More »
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6299" align="alignright" width="300"] Judith D. Tamkin welcomes guests to the first annual USC Judith D. Tamkin International Symposium on Elder Abuse held in Los Angeles on September 15 and 16. (Photo/Claire Norman)[/caption] Guests were welcomed from across the globe to gather in Los Angeles recently for the first annual... Read More »
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
A prestigious national student organization has established a new chapter at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Twenty-five members of the Keck School’s class of 2017 were inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) on Sept. 7 in Aresty Auditorium on the Health Sciences Campus. The GHHS is... Read More »
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Leaders from Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC were on hand Sept. 14 to formally welcome Steven Siegel, MD, PhD, as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences. At a reception held in the Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center Auditorium,... Read More »
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Friday, October 7, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6295" align="alignright" width="200"] From left, David Lee, Terence Sanger (seated) and USC President C. L. Max Nikias smile during the installation of the David L. Lee and Simon Ramo Chair in Health Science and Technology, held Sept. 29 at the Broad CIRM Center Auditorium.[/caption] A new chair named in... Read More »
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
To honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a cancer survivor joined a team of physicians and staff from Keck Medicine of USC on the field during the Oct. 1 USC Trojan football game against Arizona State, while a group of nurses presented the game ball and administered the coin toss. Annette... Read More »
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016
A new farmers market has opened at Hazard Park, offering fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers and hot food from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays on Norfolk Street across from Keck Hospital Gold Lobby. The market is open to the public and a portion of the market’s proceeds will benefit... Read More »