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Friday, July 25, 2014
One in every 2,000 babies is born with a skull that can’t grow normally. Sections of these babies’ skulls are fused together at joints called sutures, constricting the developing brain and disrupting vision, sleep, eating and IQ. For these young patients, risky skull-expanding surgeries become an almost annual event. Now,... Read More »
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Friday, July 25, 2014
David Ko, clinical associate professor of neurology, and Ted Yamamori from the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, recently attended the groundbreaking of Pyongyang University Medical School, a new medical school in North Korea. The school is designed to improve medical education in North Korea and bolster medical care... Read More »
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
The world-class expertise of Keck Medicine of USC’s USC Institute of Urology is now available in Glendale, Calif., providing assistance with a variety of urological conditions for patients in a convenient location. Leo R. Doumanian, MD, and Mike M. Nguyen, MD, who are taking on the practice of William Reynolds,... Read More »
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
A Los Angeles team of scientists and surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI) reported that sound registered in the brain of a deaf Canadian boy for the first time after doctors activated a hearing device that had been surgically... Read More »
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Continuing its momentum as one of the fastest-growing urology programs in the nation, the USC Institute of Urology recruited Gerhard Fuchs, MD, an internationally renowned urologic surgeon, researcher and educator who advanced innovative technology to minimize the pain of eliminating kidney stones, effective July 15. Fuchs, professor of clinical urology at... Read More »
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
As part of a multinational, collaborative effort, researchers from Keck Medicine of USC, have helped identify more than 100 locations in the human genome associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia. In what is the largest genomic study published on any psychiatric disorder to date, the findings, which are published... Read More »
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Monday, July 21, 2014
The Keck Medical Center of USC co-sponsored the Greater Los Angeles Congenital Heart Walk on June 29 at Griffith Park. The event attracted more than 1,000 people and raised more than $90,000 to support advocacy, research, and care for patients with congenital heart disease. ... Read More »
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Monday, July 21, 2014
For his last radiation treatment, Russ Enyeart’s doctor told him she wasn’t going to be able to keep his usual 1:30 appointment time and had to push it back to 5 p.m. She was bending the truth. Leslie Ballas, MD, assistant professor of clinical radiation oncology at the Keck School... Read More »
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Monday, July 21, 2014
Michael Lieber, MD, PhD, professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has spent years studying the origin of lymphoma by tracing the onset of the problem to the most elemental of levels by looking at what went wrong in the DNA of people who develop lymphoma. In two... Read More »
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Friday, July 18, 2014
A team of Keck School of Medicine of USC investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has been awarded $4 million over five years by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for LungMAP, an atlas of the developing human lung. Borrowing from Hollywood blockbusters,... Read More »
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Friday, July 18, 2014
For breast cancer patients, the era of personalized medicine may be just around the corner, thanks to recent advances by USC Stem Cell researcher Min Yu, MD, PhD, and scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In a July 10 study in Science, Yu and her colleagues report... Read More »