A Southern California native, Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, has always felt at home in Los Angeles. The city drew her back in 2011, after 18 years at Harvard University, to launch a health and human rights program at … Read More »
Five winners have been selected from among the respondents to the inaugural HSC News Weekly Reader Survey. Nancy Berman, Michelle Lee, Helen Noble, Claire Norman and Michelle Steele were randomly selected to win $20 Amazon gift cards.
The survey, which was … Read More »
He describes himself as a proud Trojan. Others describe Antreas Hindoyan, MD, as a guardian angel, a dedicated and gifted physician with great skill and expertise, and an exemplary man.
These accolades recently led to the interventional cardiologist … Read More »
When Gianluca Lazzi, PhD, started out as an electrical engineer, he was working on safety assessments of electromagnetic fields. Essentially, he wanted to find out how to prevent people from being overexposed to those fields and hurting themselves. … Read More »
A new USC analysis of air quality data shows sharply different levels of air pollution across the Los Angeles area, with Chinatown suffering from the unhealthiest air. Altadena had the lowest air pollution.
The analysis used an artificial intelligence model, developed … Read More »
Stephanie Saldana was born with amelogenesis imperfecta, a rare tooth development disorder that causes teeth to be unusually small, grooved or discolored. Because of that disorder, Saldana would instinctively cover her mouth to avoid being bullied by classmates.
Thanks to the … Read More »
Directors of the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation visited the Health Sciences Campus on April 27 to hear presentations from Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty and meet with participants in the Baxter Foundation Student Research Fellowship … Read More »
A USC research team identified 150 proteins affecting cell activity and brain development that contribute to mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar condition and depression.
It’s the first time these molecules, which are associated with the disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) protein linked to … Read More »
An international team of researchers including USC scientists has found scores of new genetic markers in DNA code that increase prostate cancer risk — powerful knowledge likely to prove useful to detect and prevent the disease.
Focusing on the DNA of … Read More »
Raffi Boghossian saw a lot of things growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, during the height of a civil war. Out of those things grew a passion for nursing and service to others.
“I grew up in a war-torn country and all … Read More »
“Put yourself first.”
Ghecemy Lopez, MEd, speaks with experience from multiple perspectives when she gives that advice to cancer patients. Lopez is a cancer information resource and navigation specialist at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and a two-time cancer survivor, … Read More »
Remote-controlled drones — technically known as UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles — are becoming more powerful, more reliable and cheaper.
Public health and humanitarian providers in remote areas have begun using the drones to deliver medical supplies and vaccines or provide … Read More »
Mandy Poppen, a nurse at Keck Hospital of USC, decided to go the extra mile for one patient’s family. In fact, she went an extra 280 miles to drive a grieving husband home after his wife passed away.
When Poppen arrived … Read More »
Standing at a busy restaurant counter during the lunch rush, Roop Mayall approaches the cashier to place her order.
“Name for the order, please?” he asks.
She opens her mouth to say her name, but she can’t make a sound. She begins … Read More »
As a Spanish-speaking native of L.A.’s South Gate neighborhood, Jessica Flores frequently accompanied her father to doctor visits to serve as translator, after realizing the language barrier with his doctor was interfering with his treatment.
Starting in July, Flores will serve … Read More »
Employees and visitors to the Health Sciences Campus are advised of new and ongoing construction detours. Please allow extra time for parking and be advised of the following changes to traffic patterns that could impact access:
From June 11 through July … Read More »
Running early or running late can have big consequences — especially when it comes to the progenitor cells involved in human kidney development. According to a new study in Developmental Cell from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Andy McMahon, … Read More »
My path to an MD wasn’t the usual one. After graduating college, I taught high school for two years in a low-income school in Oakland. The health inequalities between my students and their more privileged counterparts were pronounced. Lack of … Read More »
How do complex biological structures — an eye, a hand, a brain — emerge from a single fertilized egg? This is the fundamental question of developmental biology and a mystery still being grappled with by scientists who hope to one … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC is expanding its network of ambulatory clinics with a new location in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley. Located at 125 W. Huntington Drive in Arcadia, the newly constructed three-story, 33,000-square-foot clinic will begin opening in … Read More »