Samara White, a fourth year PharmD student at the USC School of Pharmacy, recently received the 2022 Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Award from the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) for her work as … Read More »
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC is highlighting graduates of the Master of Science Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. As the 41 master’s students in the Class of … Read More »
Lucia Madero, who will receive her DPT at this week’s upcoming commencement, didn’t have a traditional path to becoming a physical therapist — her journey wound through several careers, three children and two countries.
“I’m different from the other students in … Read More »
A new study from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center that was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences has demonstrated the feasibility of using a single tube of blood and computerized tomography (CT) … Read More »
The Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion that could reverse Roe v. Wade has many people wondering what a post-Roe landscape might look like. Dima Qato, PharmD, PhD, MPH, an associate professor at the USC School … Read More »
When Neysa Sanghavi arrived at the University of California from Mumbai, India with a Dean’s Leadership Scholarship in 2018, she was already an accomplished humanitarian, conservationist, author and scholar. She had worked toward turtle conservation in Costa Rica, … Read More »
Smog’s harmful effect on health is widely understood. The noxious mixture of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter wreaks havoc on the entire body. Lung, brain and heart health suffer but it also has been linked to behavioral problems, … Read More »
In honor of Mother’s Day, the ambulatory infusion teams distributed roses to patients who visited USC Norris Hospital, the Women’s Specialty Care Clinic, as well as Keck Medicine of USC locations in Arcadia, Buena Park, Koreatown, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach … Read More »
On April 28, a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the launch of the Interventional Radiology and Catheter Laboratory at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital that will provide two crucial elements of emergency cardiovascular care for patients in the Verdugo Hills and surrounding communities.
Among community … Read More »
The University of Southern California’s Street Medicine Program launched in 2018, when the Keck School of Medicine of USC recruited two specialists, Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C, and Corinne … Read More »
Raymond Goldsworthy, PhD, head of the Bionic Ear Lab in the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and a cochlear implant user, has spent years working with a team of … Read More »
People who have experienced a neurologic injury often face the challenge of changing their gait and learning a different walking pattern. The newly opened Gait Rehabilitation and Motor Learning Lab at the USC Division … Read More »
On April 22nd, the staff members of the USC Transplant Institute raised the Donate Life Flag in honor of Donate Life month and all the organ donors who have given the gift of life to patients in need.
The Transplant Institute … Read More »
A new analysis of data collected from more than 82,000 children with autism finds clear disparities in health care usage across seven years reveals significant differences in their health care utilization according to sex, race and ethnicity.
Results and implications of … Read More »
Longtime board leader William A. Heeres, PharmD, has been appointed chairman emeritus of the USC School of Pharmacy Board of Councilors.
With David W. Neu heading the Board of Councilors since November, Heeres continues to serve on … Read More »
Exposure to a class of widely used synthetic chemicals is connected to liver damage according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and published on April 27 in … Read More »
In 2016, Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Bill Brummel started having severe breathing problems. His airway, doctors found, was almost completely closed due to the long-term side effects of radiation treatment Brummel received for tonsil cancer 24 years ago.
To save … Read More »
A screening tool developed with artificial intelligence and trained on hundreds of hours of patient interviews could flag risks for relapse in liver transplant patients with alcohol use disorder — and prompt precise interventions, according to a new study from … Read More »
Steven Richeimer, MD, is a renowned specialist on issues related to chronic pain. He is the chief of the division of pain medicine at Keck Medicine of USC and a professor of clinical anesthesiology and psychiatry and … Read More »
Since 2005, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a safe and effective treatment option for treatment resistant depression. It has been tested in several research studies, including one at … Read More »