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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Pharmaceutical industry executive Robert Seidman, PharmD, MPH, has been named the keynote speaker for the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences commencement ceremony. Seidman, a USC alumnus who endowed the annual Robert Seidman Distinguished Speaker Series, is a nationally recognized consultant who has played a pivotal... Read More »
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Monday, March 31, 2025
A new USC Schaeffer Center white paper finds expanded access to anti-obesity medications would lead to significant increases in life expectancy and disease-free years while generating a substantial societal return on investment, even after accounting for treatment costs. More than 4 in 10 U.S. adults have obesity, which is linked to increased... Read More »
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Monday, March 31, 2025
The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Ksenia Gnedeva. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Researchers focused on a group of interacting... Read More »
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The first USC-licensed startup — a biotech company that has developed an intranasal drug delivery system for brain tumors — is now listed on Nasdaq. To celebrate the direct listing, the USC Stevens Center for Innovation and the startup, NeOnc Technologies Holdings Inc., rang the opening bell at 9:30 a.m.... Read More »
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Keck Medicine of USC has integrated Keck Hospital of USC’s acute rehabilitation unit, a nationally recognized and highly ranked program by U.S. News & World Report, into its inpatient rehabilitation unit at USC Arcadia Hospital (USC-AH). The USC-AH unit is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, an... Read More »
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Monday, March 24, 2025
On March 21 this year, fourth-year medical students from across North America took part in a significant milestone known as Match Day. At 9 a.m. PDT on the dot, each student tore open an envelope containing the name of the program that will be their home for residency training. Prior... Read More »
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Monday, March 24, 2025
Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD, dean of the USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, received the 2025 Outstanding Dean Award at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting & Exposition in Nashville on Friday, March 21. The national award, presented since 2004, recognizes one dean out of the 142 U.S. pharmacy schools... Read More »
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Women with blood pressure levels in a range considered slightly elevated but clinically normal during pregnancy, with no mid-pregnancy drop in blood pressure, face an increased risk of developing hypertension in the five years after giving birth. These women—about 12% of the population studied—would not be flagged as high-risk by... Read More »
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Monday, March 17, 2025
The full value of a merger can only be realized if effort is made to build and leverage organizational synergies beyond the transactional deal. Integrating an entire hospital full of new departments, facilities and thousands of employees into a health system is no easy feat. But over the last two... Read More »
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Adam Leventhal, PhD, a University Professor with the Keck School of Medicine of USC, witnessed the effects of addiction up close in high school, then later, within his family. Now a leading expert on addiction, he's the executive founding director of the USC Institute for Addiction Science, a massive interdisciplinary... Read More »
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Jane F. Emerson, MD, PhD, has been announced as the new chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine with the Keck School of Medicine of USC, effective March 1. Having served as the interim chair since July 1, 2024, Emerson will continue to lead the research, clinical care,... Read More »