Wisdom can increase with age, but healing power does not. USC Stem Cell scientist Joseph T. Rodgers, PhD, is exploring the biology behind this fact, thanks to a grant from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR).
The grants provide $100,000 … Read More »
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors recently honored a group of USC faculty members who work to protect vulnerable seniors from elder abuse.
Diana Homeier, MD, associate professor of clinical family medicine and director of the geriatric medicine fellowship training … Read More »
Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, the noted physician and scientist recognized across the globe as a visionary leader in the epidemiology of eye diseases, has been formally installed as dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC recently received the school’s highest ranking in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding since the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research began its annual ranking of medical schools in 2006. The rankings … Read More »
Social media is giving researchers insight into the rising use of hookah, according to a study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Hookah, smoked through a water pipe and also known as shisha, has harmful health effects similar to … Read More »
John Davis
John Albert Davis, PhD, former assistant clinical professor of medical education at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, died on Jan. 13. He was 82.
Davis left a lasting … Read More »
New research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC finds that children with asthma are 51 percent more likely to become obese over the next decade compared to kids who did not have respiratory condition.
The study, published on Jan. … Read More »
Stephen Gruber, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC is one of four institutions to receive a multimillion-dollar grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for translational research projects. The $2.5 million grant will support potential osteoarthritis therapies that could … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC was awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support projects that could prevent obesity and treat obesity-related fatty liver disease in Hispanic populations. Michael Goran, PhD, professor of preventive … Read More »
Alex Weber
The Trojan family celebrated an extraordinary 2017 Rose Bowl victory on Jan. 2.
As with all successful athletic achievements, it truly took a team to build a successful football season … Read More »
Gregory Stevens
Gregory Stevens, PhD, associate professor of clinical family medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has joined the newly formed LA “Help Me Grow” Leadership Council. This … Read More »
Lydia Hand as an infant post-transplant in 1998, with her mother, grandmother and liver transplant team. (Photo/Courtesy … Read More »
In a continued effort to support university faculty and encourage groundbreaking research, the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Dean’s Pilot Grant Program and the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute have distributed nearly two dozen grants for the … Read More »
A series of wellness initiatives recently launched across Keck Medicine of USC aim to encourage healthy living among physicians, nurses and staff.
The initiatives include meditation practice, healthy eating and personal fitness tracking. They were created with the help of community … Read More »
A study led by researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles demonstrates what lead investigator Bradley Peterson, MD, calls “a critical mass of evidence” of a common underlying lifelong vulnerability in both children and adults who stutter. They discovered … Read More »
Alfred Lopez was treated at Keck Medicine … Read More »
JAMA Ophthalmology, one of the journals of the American Medical Association, announced four of its top 10 most talked about articles in 2016 are published research by the USC Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute.
The four articles include National Eye … Read More »
Could electricity help stroke survivors regain control of their legs and return to mobility?
It’s a question that assistant professor James Finley, PhD, and professor Carolee Winstein, PhD, PT, both from the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, part of … Read More »
If more people were willing to share their health data on mobile devices, scientists could organize the information into shared databases and perhaps bring about the next era of medical breakthroughs, researchers said in a social change film.
The curation and … Read More »