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Monday, March 14, 2016
Keck Medicine of USC showed its heart on Valentine’s Day. Physicians, nurses and staff members across the health system purchased more than 2,000 Valentine’s Day grams for $1 each, showing appreciation for their colleagues while generating money to support the local community surrounding the Health Sciences Campus and USC Verdugo... Read More »
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
The Keck School of Medicine USC recently hosted an inaugural one-day resident and fellow training on the comprehensive management of subcortical lesions using the NICO BrainPath Approach, a tool developed by the NICO Corporation for removing deep-seated brain tumors using an exoscopic channel-based approach. Gabriel Zada, MD, assistant professor of... Read More »
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
While medical home care may be improving primary care for children, these youngest patients may be disadvantaged by this team-based health care approach in other ways, according to a new study. Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC examined medical home trends in children’s primary care from 2003... Read More »
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
A new location of the USC Eye Institute is now open at the University Park Campus, offering faculty, staff and their dependents, as well as USC students, a convenient location for their eye care and optical needs. The office, at 3335 S. Figueroa St., Unit E, is in the University... Read More »
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Monday, March 7, 2016
The USC Westside Center for Diabetes, under the direction of Anne Peters, MD, CDE, professor of medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to create an educational program for underserved adults living with... Read More »
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Sunday, March 6, 2016
[caption id="attachment_5589" align="alignright" width="211"] Advanced Glaucoma Surgery, co-edited by Rohit Varma[/caption] Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, has released a new educational book, Advanced Glaucoma Surgery. Varma, the director of the USC Eye Institute and chair of the Ophthalmology Department at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, co-edited the book with... Read More »
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Friday, March 4, 2016
Last August, the Davila family was given devastating news: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) cardiologists confirmed that their 27-week-old fetus suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) with restrictive atrial septum, which prevented blood returning from the fetus’s lungs from circulating back into the body The parents were told that... Read More »
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Friday, March 4, 2016
Latinas who eat processed meats such as bacon and sausage may have an increased risk for breast cancer, according to a new study that did not find the same association among white women. The study, published Feb. 22 in the journal Cancer Causes & Control, suggests that race, ethnicity, genetics,... Read More »
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Antidepressants can shrink and stunt cancerous brain tumors that are otherwise difficult to treat, an international team of researchers has found. USC School of Pharmacy researchers who led the study on mice found that the drugs stifle the growth of brain cancer, glioma or glioblastoma by suppressing the enzyme monoamine... Read More »
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Cyber attacks against health care systems are on the rise, putting sensitive patient data at risk and law enforcement authorities on alert. Hackers penetrating networks and then demanding money for encrypted information is a growing trend. In February, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom to attackers who had... Read More »
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
By the time you finish reading this article — about four minutes — someone in America will have had a stroke. In fact, nearly 800,000 people have strokes in the United States every year. It’s the fifth leading cause of death and one of the leading causes of disability, according... Read More »