Kidney development is a balancing act between the self-renewal of stem and progenitor cells to maintain and expand their numbers, and the differentiation of these cells into more specialized cell types. In a new study … Read More »
Five years ago, Kim Michalski, now 67, had a prominent career as an investment manager, overseeing portfolios for high-wealth clients and traveling across the country to manage her own staff.
But behind closed doors, Michalski … Read More »
The USC Roski Eye Institute will open its new Visual Electrophysiology Unit (VEU) to community physicians in April. Ophthalmologists may directly refer their patients to the VEU for testing.
The VEU features state-of-the-art equipment that … Read More »
Berislav Zlokovic was one of three USC faculty members to be appointed as University Professors, USC Provost Charles F. Zukoski announced in an April 5 memo. John Brooks Slaughter, PhD, Hanna … Read More »
Hispanic immigrants of working age — 20 to 54 years old — are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study of California … Read More »
The Los Angeles Business Journal has published its “Women of Influence: Health Care” special section, and several Keck Medicine of USC clinicians and administrators were honored, as well as women from throughout the USC medical … Read More »
For too long, too few autistic people have had a say in how autism research is designed, developed and disseminated, and researchers have not tapped into the expertise that only autistic people and their families have. A new … Read More »
As restaurants, stores and other venues reopen, Americans are slowly but surely reentering the world. However, recent events, such as mass shootings in Boulder, Colorado and Atlanta, Georgia, added an extra layer of stress and uncertainty for many … Read More »
The film “The Father” brings the issue of dementia to the forefront. This is a story about how a man, played by Anthony Hopkins, who refuses all assistance from his daughter, played by … Read More »
On March 30, Keck Medicine of USC celebrated National Doctors’ Day, a time when the health system acknowledges the vital contributions physicians make throughout the enterprise.
“Although this celebration occurs annually, … Read More »
Steven D. Shapiro, MD, who has been named to the newly created position of senior vice president for health affairs at USC, visited the Health Sciences Campus recently, accompanied by Keck Medicine of USC … Read More »
Fifteen percent of the U.S. population has chronic kidney disease. At its most severe, end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) requires patients to receive dialysis regularly or have a kidney transplant. According to the CDC, over 750,000 people in the … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC rose in U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 edition of Best Medical Schools: Research, moving to 29th from 31st a year ago.
“I am very pleased that the Keck School … Read More »
John D. Carpten, PhD, founding chair for the Department of Translational Genomics in the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named to the 2021 class of fellows of the American Association for … Read More »
To Gerald Loeb, the U.S. health care system is a wasteful mess that all too often fails patients.
Physicians, good intentions notwithstanding, sometimes misdiagnose medical conditions because they don’t recall them from … Read More »
The good news: 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been injected into the arms of Americans by March 19, 2021. The bad news: Black and Hispanic Americans are receiving smaller shares of the vaccine compared to their … Read More »
Proving a link between toxic airborne substances in war zones and resulting respiratory illness has been a challenge for many veterans who were deployed in Southwest Asia during post-9/11 wars. Deployment to this region exposed servicemembers to a … Read More »
Laura Mosqueda, MD, is as amazed as anyone at how far COVID-19 vaccination efforts have come in the last few months. However, as she sees mass vaccination clinics administer thousands of doses per … Read More »
Andrea Banuelos Mota and her family — mother Magdalena Banuelos, husband Jose Luis Rodriquez and 8-month-old son Joey — gathered in front of her computer at her San Fernando home early March 19. When the email arrived, they … Read More »
One year into the pandemic, it is still unclear what the effects of the coronavirus and stay-at-home orders have been on health care utilization and patients seeking care unrelated to COVID-19 symptoms.
In a new … Read More »