Pamela Walls had been evicted from her rent-controlled apartment after the building was sold. The single mother of a teenage son tried to find a new place, something she found impossible because of rising rent costs.
“I never thought that would … Read More »
Leaders from Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC shared an update recently on the construction projects that affect the Health Sciences Campus. The memo was sent by Rod Hanners, COO of Keck Medicine of … Read More »
E-cigarette use among young adults in the U.S. jumped 46.2% between 2017 and 2018, suggesting that the vaping industry is making inroads among 18- to 24-year-olds as it has among teens.
Co-led by scientists at USC, the research provides one of … Read More »
On a sunny, late summer afternoon, Caryn Lerman, PhD, took the stage on the Broad Lawn with a new job: director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
“I feel privileged to be here as the director of USC Norris, one … Read More »
On Sept. 7, sports medicine physicians and staff from USC Orthopaedic Surgery participated in the Los Angeles Kings 5K/10K event in Redondo Beach to promote the new sports medicine walk-in patient care location inside the Toyota Sports Performance Center. The … Read More »
The USC School of Pharmacy was awarded four USC Good Neighbors Grants for 2019–20, helping fund a range of innovative community programs. More than 900 local efforts have been supported through Good Neighbors over the past 25 years thanks to donations … Read More »
Against a backdrop of disappointing Alzheimer’s disease clinical trial outcomes, two researchers are proposing a new approach for future study of the disease.
Caleb Finch, PhD, of the USC Leonard Davis School of … Read More »
A USC scientist and colleagues have identified a new species of giant flying reptile that once soared over what is now North America.
The creature is similar to the largest pterosaurs known, yet key characteristics gleaned from a cache of bones … Read More »
Department of Surgery Vice Chair Kenji Inaba, MD, professor of surgery (clinical scholar) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named chief of the division of trauma, emergency surgery and surgical critical care at Keck Medicine … Read More »
A tiny bluish region deep in the brainstem has outsized impacts on how we learn and make memories in old age, according to a new study in Nature Human Behavior led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, … Read More »
USC’s Good Neighbors Campaign continued its tradition of local support by awarding $1.4 million to community partners and educational partnership groups.
“You are all making a difference,” said Carolina Castillo, campaign director for the Good Neighbors Campaign, to a room of … Read More »
Officials celebrated a new partnership on Sept. 4, as Keck Medicine of USC, the Los Angeles Kings and Meyer Institute of Sport held a ribbon-cutting for the Toyota Sports Performance Center in El Segundo, a new sports medicine and athletic … Read More »
Hands are one of the more useful parts of the body. They help make coffee, send emails, do laundry, answer the phone and put on clothes. When they are injured or develop chronic problems like arthritis, getting through daily tasks … Read More »
More than 10 million people in the United States live with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS), a cluster of disorders that includes interstitial cystitis and bladder pain syndrome in women and chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome in … Read More »
For Christina Garcia, BSN, RN, CCRN, care is a reciprocal relationship, one in which both the patient and the care provider learn and grow from each other.
“I learn a lot from my patients and their families,” Garcia said. “These are … Read More »
On July 29-30, the division of neurocritical care and stroke at Keck Medicine of USC hosted Amytis Towfighi, MD, as the James and Dorothy Williams Stroke Scholar and the eighth recipient of the Roxanna Todd Hodges … Read More »
Keck Medical Center of USC has expanded the Keck Professional Program to the nursing staff, administrators announced recently. A Sept. 3 memo from Annette Sy, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer of Keck Medical Center, detailed the program’s inaugural expansion that … Read More »
Since the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s to the debate over reproductive rights and the global phenomenon of #MeToo, a number of social and political factors have brought increased attention to issues of sexual violence and … Read More »
If you’re looking to shed a few pounds, you might be tempted to try out popular new approaches like the keto diet or fasting.
But you might be unwittingly worsening a problem you don’t even know you have: a fatty liver.
Doctors … Read More »
In the string of small farm towns that stretches south from California’s Salton Sea toward the border with Mexico, pretty much everyone knows someone with asthma.
As many as three of every 10 people report having the disease in … Read More »