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Monday, May 11, 2020
A group of second-year medical students from the Keck School of Medicine of USC are collecting smartphones, tablets and laptops and donating them to Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center and other Los Angeles hospitals. The donated devices are for patients infected with COVID-19 and who are therefore isolated... Read More »
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Friday, May 8, 2020
As Keck Medicine of USC begins the calculated process of reopening certain services, some things, such as the organization’s commitment to protecting its health care workers as well as patients, will not change. The “new normal” of social distancing brings with it plenty of adjustments for patients as well as... Read More »
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Friday, May 8, 2020
In honor of Mother’s Day, the ambulatory infusion teams handed out roses to patients who visited the Los Angeles Treatment Center and Women’s Specialty unit, as well as the Koreatown/Buena Park, Orange County and Pasadena treatment centers during the week of Mother’s Day. Jovel Davela, RN, gives a rose to... Read More »
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
At a time when nurses and their dedication to patients are in the news every day, it's more important than ever to acknowledge their hard work, bravery, and generosity of spirit. In honor of Nurses Week, Keck Medical Center of USC and USC Care and Ambulatory Services executives gathered to... Read More »
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
Julie Ann Dopheide, PharmD, professor of clinical pharmacy, psychiatry and the behavioral sciences, received the 2020 Judith J. Saklad Memorial Award from the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) on May 1. The award recognizes Dopheide’s professional distinction in the practice of psychiatric pharmacy. A board-certified psychiatric pharmacist, she... Read More »
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body’s immune system during the early stages of COVID-19 could help a patient avoid severe symptoms. That’s because the research, published May 1 online in the Journal of Medical Virology, shows that an interaction between the body’s two main lines of defense may... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Keck Medicine of USC physicians are launching a clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of baricitinib, an anti-inflammatory drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat rheumatoid arthritis, as a possible treatment for patients with moderate to severe COVID-19. “We are learning that in some... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Keck Medicine of USC is gradually resuming a limited number of medically necessary, time-sensitive surgeries and outpatient procedures at Keck Medical Center of USC, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital and select ambulatory locations as of May 4. These steps are aligned with the American College of Surgeons guidelines and reflect the... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
The USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery is dedicated to maintaining resident and fellow education as long as clinic and surgical volumes are reduced. Toward this end, the department has led an effort involving more than 40 institutions across the nation to offer online education... Read More »
USC Stem Cell scientist Min Yu awarded Era of Hope Scholar Award from the U.S. Department of Defense
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Most breast cancer cells won’t kill a person. It is the rare cell that can survive the perilous journey through the bloodstream and seed the metastatic lesions responsible for the vast majority of breast cancer-related deaths. And although these rare cancer cells are difficult to find and even harder to... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Jing-Hsiung (Jim) Ou, PhD, has agreed to serve as the interim chair for molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, effective July 1, 2020. He is currently a professor in the department. The current chair of the department, Jae U. Jung, PhD, is stepping down from... Read More »