A new procedure at Keck Medicine of USC may give people with severe, uncontrolled asthma a much-needed breath of life. The medical center is among the first in the United States to offer bronchial thermoplasty, an outpatient treatment … Read More »
Richard Binggeli, a professor, researcher and psychologist at the Keck School of Medicine of USC for nearly three decades, died March 16 after a long battle with thyroid cancer. He was 76.
Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Richard to Los … Read More »
A first-ever analysis by Keck Medicine of USC clinician scientists indicates that adolescents and young adults who develop thyroid cancer as a secondary cancer are six times more likely to die than those with primary thyroid cancer.
The findings, … Read More »
The Endocrine Society has named Frank Z. Stanczyk, PhD, professor of research in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Preventive Medicine, to the Sex Steroid Assay Reporting Task Force that will recommend policies on measurement reporting requirements … Read More »
Voices rose and fell at a fevered pitch around Kathleen Seaton as white envelopes were opened. The Keck School of Medicine of USC fourth-year student took a deep breath and tore open the envelope that would reveal her fate.
Kathleen glanced … Read More »
Strong leadership is vital to Keck Medicine of USC’s strategy to become one of the nation’s great academic medical centers and to develop a comprehensive system of acute care and ambulatory centers. To help consolidate leadership across USC’s medical enterprise, … Read More »
As part of multi-year partnership with the Los Angeles Times, USC will host the LA Times Festival of Books at the University Park campus April 12 and 13.
In its fourth year at the USC campus, the Festival of Books will … Read More »
Colon cancer research at USC received a boost from the Southern California-based Dhont Family Foundation, as the foundation renewed its commitment of its $1 million gift to fund Heinz-Josef Lenz’s research in colorectal cancer at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer … Read More »
Keck School of Medicine of USC neuroscientists have unlocked a piece of the puzzle in the fight against Lou Gehrig’s disease, a debilitating neurological disorder that robs people of their motor skills.
Their findings appear in the March 3, 2014, online … Read More »
The women of Keck Medicine of USC definitely made an impact at the annual USC Women’s Conference. The women spoke of what made them choose medicine, what impact they feel they are having in health care, what myths, trends or … Read More »
A new Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC study not only uncovered new details on how bundles of nerves and arteries interact with stem cells but also showcased revolutionary techniques for following the cells as they function in living animals.
Principal … Read More »
A Mar. 25 story on NBC News featured Leslie Saxon, MD, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School, about body sensors and how individuals can track their fitness.
A March 24 The … Read More »
USC is pleased to offer the first master’s program in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine in California.
“The program gives students a unique entrée into the rapidly expanding field of stem cell biology in the globally-recognized capital of stem cell … Read More »
More than 180 volunteers from the Keck School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine — led by Sean O. Henderson, chair of the department, and department physicians Clare Roepke and Dhara Amin — turned out to offer aid at the … Read More »
Keck School of Medicine of USC students and faculty gathered to learn more about genetic cancer therapy and neurotransmitter release in the brain at the 2014 Lasker Lectures Program, held on March 4 at Mayer Auditorium.
Richard H. … Read More »
USC stem cell researchers discussed the promise of regenerative medicine and cellular therapies — from curing HIV to building organs such as kidneys and intestines — at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Annual Symposium, … Read More »
Ronald E. Smith, MD, former chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, died on Monday, March 17. He was 71. He led the department from 1995 until retiring in 2013, and … Read More »
Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital proved they’re good neighbors in the Los Angeles community by matching funds raised in the 2013 USC Good Neighbors Campaign. Hospital employees raised $106,000 — an increase of 33 percent over … Read More »
David A. Berman, PhD, a distinguished emeritus professor of cell and neurobiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a fixture on the USC Health Sciences Campus for 60 years, passed away on Saturday, March 8. … Read More »
U.S. News & World Report released its annual “Best Graduate Schools Guidebook 2015” today showing the Keck School of Medicine of USC ranks 31st in research among 153 medical schools nationwide. The new rankings appear online … Read More »