Up to three out of every 1,000 infants in the United States are born with profound hearing loss.
Typically, infants with hearing loss are first treated with hearing aids, and if these fail to help them develop early language and speech … Read More »
According to the American Cancer Society, one in eight men will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis in his lifetime and about one in 40 will die as a result. A Keck Medicine of USC research team has … Read More »
Populations underrepresented in clinical trials face worse health outcomes that will cost the United States trillions of dollars over the next three decades, according to a new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
The committee relied … Read More »
On March 13, the USC School of Pharmacy marked its 115th commencement before an audience of more than 2,000 family, friends, faculty and staff.
Dean Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD, presided over the event in the … Read More »
When Anne Crile began to experience sudden changes to her vision, she never imagined that her symptoms would lead to the diagnosis of a life-threatening brain tumor.
She shared her symptoms with her optometrist at the USC Roski Eye Institute, … Read More »
A USC Stem Cell study in NPJ Regenerative Medicine presents intriguing evidence that large bone injuries might trigger a repair strategy in adults that recapitulates elements of skeletal formation in utero. Key to this repair strategy is a gene with a … Read More »
Libère Ndacayisaba, now PhD, addressed his fellow graduates at the commencement ceremony. (Photo/Courtesy of the Keck School of Medicine of USC)
While the pandemic … Read More »
On May 14, more than 150 students of the Keck School of Medicine of USC walked across the stage of the Galen Center to receive their diplomas. All of them had one thing in common: they all … Read More »
On the morning of April 27th, PhD student Cynthia Begay, MPH, passed a set of sashes to Dylan Goodwill, M.Ed., assistant director of undergraduate admission. Made from a handwoven blanket and embellished with cardinal and gold detailing, the sashes would … Read More »
Samara White, a fourth year PharmD student at the USC School of Pharmacy, recently received the 2022 Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Award from the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) for her work as … Read More »
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC is highlighting graduates of the Master of Science Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. As the 41 master’s students in the Class of … Read More »
Lucia Madero, who will receive her DPT at this week’s upcoming commencement, didn’t have a traditional path to becoming a physical therapist — her journey wound through several careers, three children and two countries.
“I’m different from the other students in … Read More »
For the sixth consecutive time, Keck Hospital of USC earned an ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization, for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety.
“Our steadfast commitment to … Read More »
A new study from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center that was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences has demonstrated the feasibility of using a single tube of blood and computerized tomography (CT) … Read More »
The Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion that could reverse Roe v. Wade has many people wondering what a post-Roe landscape might look like. Dima Qato, PharmD, PhD, MPH, an associate professor at the USC School … Read More »
When Neysa Sanghavi arrived at the University of California from Mumbai, India with a Dean’s Leadership Scholarship in 2018, she was already an accomplished humanitarian, conservationist, author and scholar. She had worked toward turtle conservation in Costa Rica, … Read More »
Smog’s harmful effect on health is widely understood. The noxious mixture of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter wreaks havoc on the entire body. Lung, brain and heart health suffer but it also has been linked to behavioral problems, … Read More »
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 … Read More »
On April 28, a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the launch of the Interventional Radiology 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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »