USC Stem Cell researcher Justin Ichida, PhD, is forming partnerships between academia, industry and government to accelerate the development of new treatments for patients with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Ichida’s work will marshal the expertise of pharmaceutical company Sanofi and … Read More »
A rodent’s incisors never stop growing.
It’s one of the reasons that mice gnaw through cupboards, hamsters chomp mindlessly on metal cage bars, and rats will chew through, well, just about anything. They need to wear down those ever-growing incisors, which, … Read More »
For many medical students, four years of study go by in a blur of lectures, labs and clinical care. But at Keck School of Medicine of USC, students like Doug Matsunaga have a whole year or more to pursue their … Read More »
With the goal of enhancing research related to lung disease, the Hastings Foundation has pledged $7.5 million over five years to establish the Hastings Center for Pulmonary Research (HCPR) at Keck Medicine of USC.
The Keck Medicine of USC Department of Radiology has been awarded a grant of more than half a million dollars to provide free lung cancer screening via low-dose CT scans for residents of some of the poorest communities in Los … Read More »
The USC Abdominal Transplant team completed its first paired kidney transplant on April 24, successfully transplanting a kidney obtained through an exchange with Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore into a patient at Keck Medical Center.
In a paired kidney exchange, also … Read More »
When it comes to sweeteners, one indulgence makes our brains predisposed to do it again, according to a new study by researchers at Keck Medicine of USC.
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 »
… 
…