Alzheimer’s disease not only takes a profound physical toll but has a huge emotional and financial impact on society as well, two experts on the disease told a USC crowd.
“Today in the United States, we spend $250 billion to $260 … Read More »
A former patient at the University of Southern California (USC) Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center at Keck Medicine of USC ran the Los Angeles Marathon on Feb. 14, accompanied by the treatment team that saved her life.
Prior to her stroke, … Read More »
At 48 feet long —just five feet shy of a standard semi trailer — and 22 feet wide, it’s the largest mobile dental clinic in the world.
And the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC celebrated the opening of the … Read More »
Volunteers from Keck Medical Center of USC and Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center provided support for the more than 25,000 runners on Feb. 14 during the 2016 Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon.
Approximately 200 volunteer physicians, nurses and assistants … Read More »
Top researchers from across the U.S. gathered in San Diego recently to commemorate a renewed commitment to understand and fight the leading fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting the aging population.
The USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) Partnership Meeting was held in … Read More »
University Kidney Research Organization (UKRO) will honor a stellar group of USC academic and scientific leaders at its sixth gala dinner on March 18 at The Beverly Hilton. This group of vocal champions of kidney disease research includes Provost and Senior Vice President … Read More »
Lessons at the Keck School of Medicine just got more engaging. Using open-source plans from Northwestern University, a team of Keck School of Medicine faculty and staff built a user-friendly Lightboard studio to record or live-stream lectures.
A Lightboard is a … Read More »
USC has hired John David Carpten, PhD, to lead a new department and institute that will translate the molecular study of genes into individual treatment plans.
Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA, dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, praised … Read More »
The USC Verdugo Hills Hospital has acquired a da Vinci Surgical System Robot for minimally invasive, robotic-assisted prostatectomies. Mike Nguyen, MD, MPH, associate professor of clinical urology, and Rene Sotelo, MD, professor of clinical urology at Keck Medicine of USC, … Read More »
The USC Center for Body Computing (CBC) has announced its foundation partners for the Virtual Care Clinic (VCC), a program that can connect anyone who owns a smartphone with Keck Medicine of USC experts by using cutting-edge technologies developed at … Read More »
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital has reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). USC Verdugo Hills Hospital employees represented by SEIU include certified nursing assistants and lab technicians.
“The collaborative efforts of all our … Read More »
Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, has been elected president of the clinical chairs of the Keck School of Medicine, a position that also serves as president of USC Care Medical Group, Keck Medicine of USC leaders announced recently.
“The role of the … Read More »
Too much residential traffic removes the protective effect a specific gene has on lowering asthma risk, according to a new USC study.
Children could have zero, one or two copies of a common gene variant.
“Environmental exposures such as traffic-related air pollution … Read More »
USC researchers have identified a gene variant that decreases the risk of heart disease — but only among women.
Hooman Allayee, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, … Read More »
Members of the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN), which includes USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Stephen B. Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH, met with White House senior officials in January to discuss how the group can serve … Read More »
Alumni, current scholarship recipients, parents and other friends of the Keck School of Medicine of USC will gather to honor two very notable alumni and a beloved faculty member on March 12 at the 2016 Keck Scholarship Gala.
This year’s honorees … Read More »
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined 68 of the nation’s top cancer centers in a joint statement urging parents and physicians to vaccinate young people against Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
“The HPV vaccination is a safe, effective way to prevent cancers … Read More »
For this year’s Broad Fellow, Gabriel R. Linares, PhD, science is personal.
“I have to say the turning point that spiked my interest in science was when I was in high school and my grandfather suffered a stroke,” he said. “I … Read More »
An emeritus professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC who was an expert in the epidemiology of blood-borne infections, James Wilson Mosley, MD, died after a long illness in November in Los Angeles. He is survived … Read More »
The importance of diversity to college campuses has been in the media spotlight recently, but the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been a leader in this arena for more than 40 years.
Founded in 1968, the Office of Diversity at … Read More »