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Friday, January 29, 2016
Guillotines, Mary Shelley and the likelihood of resurrecting David Bowie were hot topics on the Health Sciences Campus recently as award-winning author John Corey Whaley discussed his recent novel Noggin, a finalist for the National Book Award. More than 50 people attended the Jan. 25 Visions and Voices event, held... Read More »
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
A massive methane leak in a Los Angeles County community will have long-term health consequences that USC researchers said they intend to study. More than 87,500 metric tons of methane have leaked from a natural gas storage facility near Porter Ranch, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. Ed Avol, MS,... Read More »
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
The beautiful and remote Big Island of Hawaii is the home of five young, dedicated athletes, but on Feb. 14 the teenagers will be in the big city running the Los Angeles Marathon in support of Team Concern, a group that raises money for the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA)... Read More »
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Sunday, January 24, 2016
Two collaborative teams within USC Stem Cell are developing new approaches that could eventually help patients with heart disease, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The teams are the winners of the Audrey E. Streedain Regenerative Medicine Initiative Awards, supported by a generous bequest by the Audrey E.... Read More »
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Investigators at Keck Medicine of USC are tackling immune-mediated diseases in a whole new way with the creation of a joint postdoctoral program. Omid Akbari, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, said a combined postdoctoral effort with... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Officials at the White House have announced the postponement of Friday's National Medal awards ceremony because of extreme weather forecast in the Washington, DC, area. Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, was scheduled to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama. The ceremony will be rescheduled to spring,... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
The largest study of childhood eye diseases ever undertaken in the U.S. confirms that the incidence of childhood myopia among American children has more than doubled over the last 50 years. The findings echo a troubling trend among adults and children in Asia, where 90 percent or more of the... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
When Yekaterina Hovhannisyan, MD arrived in Los Angeles in November from Yerevan, Armenia, she was prepared for an intensive learning experience at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Hovhannisyan, a neurologist and junior faculty member at the Yerevan State Medical University, was at the USC Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular... Read More »
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
USC scientists are part of a team working on a smartphone app and cloud services platform that will predict the probability of a child’s future asthma attack and provide personalized risk management advice. Frank Gilliland, MD, MPH, PhD, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC,... Read More »
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Friday, January 15, 2016
It’s a great time to be alive. At least, that’s what David B, Agus, MD, bestselling author and director of the USC Norris Westside Cancer Center, argues in his newest book, The Lucky Years: How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health. [caption id="attachment_5446" align="alignright" width="199"] The Lucky... Read More »
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Though decades have passed since Michael Kennedy, MD ’66, MS, first enrolled at USC, he still thinks about the unlikely course of events that led the Chicago native to earning his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine. “It was all a surprise,” Kennedy said recently. “I had no... Read More »