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Friday, August 9, 2013
By Cristy Lytal Three newly assembled research teams within USC Stem Cell, the regenerative medicine initiative at USC, will take steps that could lead to future stem-cell based therapies for certain forms of deafness, bone defects and pediatric leukemia. The teams are the winners of USC’s Regenerative Medicine Initiative (RMI),... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway Thomas McAfee, MD, dean of clinical affairs at UC San Diego Health Sciences, has been appointed the CEO of the newly forming Keck Medicine of USC Medical Foundation. He begins his new role on Sept. 3. The development of a community medical foundation intended to add primary... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
USC physicians continued to make impressive gains this year in an annual ranking of doctors in the San Gabriel Valley. In all, 345 USC physicians have been included in Pasadena Magazine’s 2013 roster of “Top Doctors,” up from 273 last year and 170 in 2011. The doctors represent 34 different... Read More »
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Friday, August 9, 2013
By Josh Grossberg Becoming a doctor requires years of attending lectures, watching PowerPoint presentations and reading stacks of thick textbooks filled with charts and graphs. But at some point, young students and physician residents at Los Angeles County + USC will have to put down the heavy tomes and pick... Read More »
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Pancreatic cancer is among the most lethal of all cancers, but the least funded for research. According to American Cancer Society estimates, more than 45,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2013, and nearly 38,500 will die. The incidence of this cancer has been slowly increasing over the... Read More »
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Friday, July 26, 2013
By Ina Fried A frightened 39-year-old woman with young children was referred by a friend to the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital because of recurrent lung cancer. A multidisciplinary team, including a radiologist, pathologist, surgeon and oncologist, evaluated her case. [caption id="attachment_623" align="alignright" width="300"] USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer... Read More »
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Ram Subramanyan, assistant professor of surgery, speaks at a June 13 STOP CANCER event at the Health Sciences Campus. The event, hosted by USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Stephen B. Gruber, recognized STOP CANCER members for their many years of support, and provided an update on the progress of... Read More »
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Keck School of Medicine of USC ophthalmology fellows Anne Elizabeth Barañano, MD (left), and Jennifer Hu, MD (right), chat with Keck School Dean Carmen A. Pulifito, MD, MBA, at a party at the dean's home. The June 26 event celebrated the graduation of the school's retina fellows. (more…)... Read More »
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Kathleen Ann Burke, a longtime research scientist at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, died June 30. She was 66. [caption id="attachment_601" align="alignright" width="224"] Kathleen Ann Burke[/caption] Born in in Newark, New Jersey, Burke graduated from Douglas College and received her Master of Science from Penn State. After graduate... Read More »
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Friday, July 26, 2013
The Institute for Genetic Medicine recently hosted “Memories of the Way We Were,” a public forum on mental health issues related to Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Discussion topics at the June 22 forum included Alzheimer's and dementia research and treatment, music therapy for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, caregiver support, the... Read More »
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Friday, July 26, 2013
By Josh Grossberg The Keck Medical Center of USC will host the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM). The theme for the annual meeting, which runs from Sept. 19-21 at the Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown Hotel, is “Patient Blood Management —From Bench to Bedside.”... Read More »