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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Retinal implants that deliver longer pulses of electrical current may noticeably improve image sharpness for individuals who have lost their sight due to retinitis pigmentosa, according to a new study by researchers from the USC Eye Institute and USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The research was published in the peer-reviewed... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Researchers at six of the nation’s top ophthalmology institutions, including the USC Eye Institute, have discovered that a drug intervention commonly used for Parkinson’s disease may also significantly delay or prevent age-related macular degeneration — the leading cause of blindness in the U.S, according to the National Eye Institute (NEI).... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
President Barack Obama will bestow the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., early next year. Humayun, who holds joint appointments at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, is the inaugural Cornelius... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Teenagers with moderate mental health problems who may not have considered smoking conventional cigarettes are turning to electronic cigarettes, a new USC study has found. Mental health and behavioral problems such as alcohol and drug abuse are well-documented risk factors that push teens to smoke, said Adam Leventhal, PhD, lead... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
In a first study of its kind, USC researchers have found that colorectal cancer risk in Californian Latinos varies widely depending on their country of origin. Latinos are the largest and fastest growing minority ethnic group in America. Some 14.7 million Latinos living in California represent 38.4 percent of the... Read More »
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Friday, December 18, 2015
Carols and candy canes brought the holiday spirit to the Health Sciences Campus on Friday, Dec. 18, as hundreds of employees from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC School of Pharmacy attended the annual holiday breakfast. Keck School Dean Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA, and Interim... Read More »
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Friday, December 18, 2015
On Dec. 16, volunteers from Keck Medicine of USC and the USC Department of Public Safety visited Santa Teresita Elementary School in Los Angeles as part of their annual Holiday Toy Drive. [caption id="attachment_5393" align="alignright" width="300"] Keck Medicine of USC and USC Department of Public Safety officials bring toys from... Read More »
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Friday, December 18, 2015
Keck Hospital of USC and the USC Norris Cancer Hospital will have a new leader as Alice Issai, MBA, has been named the new chief operating officer of Keck Medical Center of USC beginning Dec. 21. Issai will report to Rod Hanners, CEO of Keck Medical Center and COO of... Read More »
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
To do what’s best for a patient, sometimes a combined effort is the best approach. That was the case recently at Keck Medical Center of USC, where an experienced neurosurgeon and an expert in robot-assisted urologic surgery teamed up successfully to remove a particularly troublesome spinal tumor. Patrick C. Hsieh,... Read More »
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
Christine Hovagimian was hoping her colleague would win. But as the annual Employee of the Year Award was announced Dec. 9 at the 2015 Holiday Party, Hovagimian heard her own name called. “It was very surprising,” Hovagimian said of winning the Keck Medicine of USC Employee of the Year Award.... Read More »
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
A team of physicians from Keck Medicine of USC recently returned from a trip to China, where they signed a collaboration agreement with officials from Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province. Jeffrey Wang, MD, and John C. Liu, MD, co-directors of the USC Spine Center, joined Paul Craig, RN, JD, chief... Read More »