In honor of Mother’s Day, the ambulatory infusion teams handed out roses to patients who visited the USC Norris Cancer Day Hospital, Healthcare Center 3 Treatment Center, Orange County and Pasadena treatment centers during the week of Mother’s Day.
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The National Cancer Institute has awarded the Keck School of Medicine of USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center $43.7 million to continue tracking all incidences of cancer in Los Angeles County.
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USC Stem Cell researchers from the laboratory of Min Yu, MD, PhD, have positive news for patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the most deadly type of breast cancer. By inhibiting a protein called TAK1, postdoctoral research associate at the … Read More »
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“As an artist and scientist, I cannot help but imagine stem cells as ‘superheroes’ fighting against ‘villains’ of disease,” said Kella Vangsness, who graduated May 12 with a master’s degree in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine from the Keck … Read More »
The USC Center for Body Computing (CBC) at Keck Medicine of USC is hoping to solve unmet health care needs using home-based digital assistants at its 2018 “Voice Assistants for All” hackathon on July 12–13. Teams of innovators … Read More »
Diego Lopez characterizes his time at USC as a transformative experience — and one that didn’t just begin with graduate studies at the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.
As an undergraduate, the Pasadena native threw the … Read More »
Every time Lara Kerr hears USC mentioned, she thinks to herself, “Aw, my people!” This reaction is the result of being helped not just once, but twice by the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC.
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Upon sending the newest group of healers into the world, the final instructions from the leaders of the Keck School of Medicine of USC were not about illnesses or treatments, but compassion, curiosity and humanity.
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For me, becoming a physician presents the opportunity to make a positive impact within my own community and the larger society within which we all live. My interest in medicine began when I was 11 years old. My father … Read More »
A nursing unit at Keck Hospital of USC recently was recognized by Keck Medicine of USC for its efforts and commitment to the elimination of preventable patient harm incidents and for improving the quality of patient care.
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Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among Latinas in the United States. Latinas also are twice as likely to experience other conditions that crop up, including insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome — a cluster of health conditions … Read More »
When Siddhartha Mukherjee took the stage at the USC 2018 commencement this morning, he shared a tip with a new generation of Trojans.
“I wish someone had told me at my own commencement that the one and only requirement of graduation … Read More »
Kaushik Parvathaneni figured out early on he wanted to work in medicine.
As a teen in high school in Seattle, he reached out to University of Washington faculty, asking if he could help with cancer research. He ended up studying a rare … Read More »
In the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, half of the faculty members are assistant professors, poised at the threshold of their careers in biomedical research. One of these … Read More »
A $10 million gift from Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg will provide critical funding for innovative research at USC into debilitating neurosensory diseases.
The donation will establish a research fund at the USC Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics. In the … Read More »
He was trapped. And the fire department couldn’t get him out.
Hector Ruiz had climbed into a confined space inside a hopper at the iron foundry where he worked, to clean and unblock the huge auger screw conveyor at the bottom. … Read More »
Every week, Sammy Cohen heads to Skid Row, the part of Downtown Los Angeles known for its large homeless population.
Roughly 5,000 folks live on the streets there, according to a 2017 count.
Working at homeless shelters, Cohen, 21, stands … Read More »
It’s well known that exposure to extremely loud noises — whether it’s an explosion, a firecracker or even a concert — can lead to permanent hearing loss. But knowing how to treat noise-induced hearing loss, which affects about 15 percent … Read More »
A researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been awarded two grants totaling more than $4 million to support osteoarthritis research. A $3.4 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund … Read More »