Keck Medicine of USC is joining with the Demeter, Hubanks and Stoneman Otolaryngology Practice to form USC Otolaryngology Associates in the communities of La Cañada Flintridge and Glendale.
As part of the USC Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the practice … Read More »
Characterizing associations between socioeconomic factors and children’s brain development, a team including investigators from nine universities across the country reports correlative links between family income and brain structure. Relationships between the brain and family income were strongest in the lowest … Read More »
A Los Angeles-area health care executive with significant experience in health systems leadership has been appointed as the chief operating officer of Keck Medicine of USC.
Rod Hanners will also serve as CEO of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris … Read More »
Wednesday, May 6
Nursing Awards Reception: Celebrate yourself and your colleagues as we recognize all your hard work. 2:30 p.m., Hoffman Café at Keck Hospital
Thursday, May 7
Nursing Excellence Fair: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and 9 – 11 p.m., Silver … Read More »
Longtime community outreach services providers and stakeholders have been convened by HSC Community Partnerships in Civic Engagement at HSC to meet regularly and exchange ideas, discuss best practices and form collaborations.
Represented are the School of Pharmacy, Keck Medicine of USC, … Read More »
Children are more likely to develop autism if their mothers were diagnosed with gestational diabetes early in pregnancy, a new study shows.
Women who receive a new diagnosis of gestational diabetes by the 26th week of pregnancy were 42% more likely … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC will soon begin information and training sessions related to a new coding system for reporting of medical diagnoses and in-patient procedures set to begin Oct. 1.
The ICD-10, the latest edition and 10th revision of the International … Read More »
Lisa Schamber of the Keck School of Medicine of USC is one of 14 medical students chosen to participate in a two-week ethics program this summer in New York, Germany and Poland.
Now in its sixth year of operation, the Fellowships … Read More »
A new project will promote early intervention services for children with hearing loss.
UniHealth Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to a USC-Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles unit that provides audiology and speech language pathology services to children with hearing loss … Read More »
When Norman Levan, MD, passed away at the age of 98, he left a gift totaling $12 million to the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Levan, a professor emeritus and former chief of Dermatology at the Keck School, left $10 … Read More »
The long-term risk for obesity and its complications, including Type 2 diabetes, may be established during a critical period between birth and weaning, according to scientists at Keck Medicine of USC.
The research, published April 2, in the peer-reviewed journal Public … Read More »
A protocol for urgent-start peritoneal dialysis results in less blood stream infections and appears to reduce mortality when compared to urgent-start hemodialysis, according to research presented at the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings in Dallas, TX.
Most patients who … Read More »
A powerful relationship exists between prenatal exposure to a common pollutant and disturbances in parts of the brain that support information processing and behavioral control.
The findings were made by researchers at the Institute for the Developing Mind at Children’s Hospital … Read More »
Standout students, faculty and administrators celebrated the heights of Trojan scholarship at the 34th annual Academic Honors Convocation on April 15.
USC President C. L. Max Nikias presented the Presidential Medallion, the university’s highest honor, to Roberta G. Williams, MD, and … Read More »
A group from Keck Medical Center of USC was the top fund-raising team in the Fight for Air Climb, a stair-climbing event held April 11 in downtown Los Angeles. The Keck Medical team was also the largest group, with 46 … Read More »
More than 150,000 book lovers descended on the University Park Campus this past weekend for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, an annual event considered the largest public literary celebration in the country.
Held at USC since 2011, the two-day … Read More »
In a new genome-wide association study, an international team led by Keck Medicine of USC neuroscientists has found evidence that some people may be more genetically susceptible to noise-induced hearing loss than others.
Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most … Read More »
Using herpesvirus, molecular immunologists from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a cellular process that activates a critical immune defense against pathogens, which could have implications for developing drugs to bolster one’s immunity to infection. Some herpesvirus infections … Read More »
At first glance, it’s hard to tell that the photos of Bill Wishner’s “I Don’t Explain” collection aren’t, in fact, paintings themselves. But looking beyond the colorful collages of painted characters, scrawled phrases, and peeling poster images reveals the bricks, … Read More »
If there’s a cure for male pattern baldness, it might hurt a little.
A team led by USC Stem Cell Principal Investigator Cheng-Ming Chuong, MD, PhD, has demonstrated that by plucking 200 hairs in a specific pattern and density, they can … Read More »