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Thursday, May 5, 2022
In honor of Mother’s Day, the ambulatory infusion teams distributed roses to patients who visited USC Norris Hospital, the Women’s Specialty Care Clinic, as well as Keck Medicine of USC locations in Arcadia, Buena Park, Koreatown, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Pasadena during the week of Mother’s Day. This has... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
On April 28, a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the launch of the Interventional Radiation and Catheter Laboratory at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital that will provide two crucial elements of emergency cardiovascular care for patients in the Verdugo Hills and surrounding communities. Among community cardiologists in the area, there is already building... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
The University of Southern California's Street Medicine Program launched in 2018, when the Keck School of Medicine of USC recruited two specialists, Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C, and Corinne Feldman, MMS, PA-C, from Allentown, Pennsylvania to co-direct a cadre of clinicians to serve Los Angeles' unhoused population. The team now includes... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Raymond Goldsworthy, PhD, head of the Bionic Ear Lab in the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and a cochlear implant user, has spent years working with a team of researchers and patients to help improve the capabilities of the implant. Historically, cochlear implants have made it impossible for... Read More »
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Monday, May 2, 2022
People who have experienced a neurologic injury often face the challenge of changing their gait and learning a different walking pattern. The newly opened Gait Rehabilitation and Motor Learning Lab at the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy aims to help individuals with gait dysfunction recover the ability to... Read More »
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Monday, May 2, 2022
On April 22nd, the staff members of the USC Transplant Institute raised the Donate Life Flag in honor of Donate Life month and all the organ donors who have given the gift of life to patients in need. The Transplant Institute raises the flag annually in April and also raises... Read More »
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Friday, April 29, 2022
A new analysis of data collected from more than 82,000 children with autism finds clear disparities in health care usage across seven years reveals significant differences in their health care utilization according to sex, race and ethnicity. Results and implications of the study, led by Amber Angell, PhD, OTR/L, an... Read More »
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Friday, April 29, 2022
Longtime board leader William A. Heeres, PharmD, has been appointed chairman emeritus of the USC School of Pharmacy Board of Councilors. With David W. Neu heading the Board of Councilors since November, Heeres continues to serve on the board while taking on an advisory position with the newly formed USC Titus Center... Read More »
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Thursday, April 28, 2022
Exposure to a class of widely used synthetic chemicals is connected to liver damage according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and published on April 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives. The chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, are a... Read More »
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
In 2016, Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Bill Brummel started having severe breathing problems. His airway, doctors found, was almost completely closed due to the long-term side effects of radiation treatment Brummel received for tonsil cancer 24 years ago. To save his life, Uttam K. Sinha, MD, medical director of... Read More »
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
A screening tool developed with artificial intelligence and trained on hundreds of hours of patient interviews could flag risks for relapse in liver transplant patients with alcohol use disorder — and prompt precise interventions, according to a new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “We know that... Read More »