The USC School of Pharmacy was awarded four USC Good Neighbors Grants for 2019–20, helping fund a range of innovative community programs. More than 900 local efforts have been supported through Good Neighbors over the past 25 years thanks to donations … Read More »
Against a backdrop of disappointing Alzheimer’s disease clinical trial outcomes, two researchers are proposing a new approach for future study of the disease.
Caleb Finch, PhD, of the USC Leonard Davis School of … Read More »
A USC scientist and colleagues have identified a new species of giant flying reptile that once soared over what is now North America.
The creature is similar to the largest pterosaurs known, yet key characteristics gleaned from a cache of bones … Read More »
Department of Surgery Vice Chair Kenji Inaba, MD, professor of surgery (clinical scholar) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named chief of the division of trauma, emergency surgery and surgical critical care at Keck Medicine … Read More »
A tiny bluish region deep in the brainstem has outsized impacts on how we learn and make memories in old age, according to a new study in Nature Human Behavior led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, … Read More »
USC’s Good Neighbors Campaign continued its tradition of local support by awarding $1.4 million to community partners and educational partnership groups.
“You are all making a difference,” said Carolina Castillo, campaign director for the Good Neighbors Campaign, to a room of … Read More »
Officials celebrated a new partnership on Sept. 4, as Keck Medicine of USC, the Los Angeles Kings and Meyer Institute of Sport held a ribbon-cutting for the Toyota Sports Performance Center in El Segundo, a new sports medicine and athletic … Read More »
Hands are one of the more useful parts of the body. They help make coffee, send emails, do laundry, answer the phone and put on clothes. When they are injured or develop chronic problems like arthritis, getting through daily tasks … Read More »
More than 10 million people in the United States live with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS), a cluster of disorders that includes interstitial cystitis and bladder pain syndrome in women and chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome in … Read More »
For Christina Garcia, BSN, RN, CCRN, care is a reciprocal relationship, one in which both the patient and the care provider learn and grow from each other.
“I learn a lot from my patients and their families,” Garcia said. “These are … Read More »
On July 29-30, the division of neurocritical care and stroke at Keck Medicine of USC hosted Amytis Towfighi, MD, as the James and Dorothy Williams Stroke Scholar and the eighth recipient of the Roxanna Todd Hodges … Read More »
Keck Medical Center of USC has expanded the Keck Professional Program to the nursing staff, administrators announced recently. A Sept. 3 memo from Annette Sy, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer of Keck Medical Center, detailed the program’s inaugural expansion that … Read More »
Since the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s to the debate over reproductive rights and the global phenomenon of #MeToo, a number of social and political factors have brought increased attention to issues of sexual violence and … Read More »
If you’re looking to shed a few pounds, you might be tempted to try out popular new approaches like the keto diet or fasting.
But you might be unwittingly worsening a problem you don’t even know you have: a fatty liver.
Doctors … Read More »
In the string of small farm towns that stretches south from California’s Salton Sea toward the border with Mexico, pretty much everyone knows someone with asthma.
As many as three of every 10 people report having the disease in … Read More »
Meredith Braskie, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named director of education for the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (INI) effective Aug. 1. Braskie, who studies … Read More »
Researchers from the street medicine team at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed “HOUSED BEDS,” the first published tool designed specifically to help outreach teams clearly assess the situation of unsheltered homeless patients. This … Read More »
USC President Carol L. Folt announced the selection of Charles F. Zukoski as the university’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, effective Oct. 1. He will hold the Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Provost’s Chair.
A skilled administrator, researcher … Read More »
Nurse Gabrielle Johnson grabs a backpack bursting with medical supplies from the backseat of her Chevy Colorado and jogs across under a freeway overpass in Boyle Heights to see her first patient. Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C, a … Read More »
Scientists at USC and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have discovered a potential novel target for treating glioblastoma, the deadly brain cancer that took the life of U.S. Sen. John McCain and kills 15,000 Americans a year.
The target … Read More »