The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a five-year, $170 million annual funding agreement for the Keck School of Medicine of USC to provide patient care services and physician medical education at Los Angeles County + USC Medical … Read More »
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), an affiliate of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has announced that the Anderson Stewart Family Foundation has made a $50 million gift to the institution, a visionary investment from the family of Marion … Read More »
Veteran university administrator Winston B. Crisp has been named USC vice president for student affairs, USC President Carol L. Folt announced July 31.
An expert in student development, Crisp formerly served as vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of … Read More »
“All these things we do, it’s X-ray beam interaction with matter in order to visualize structures of different materials,” said Tea Jashashvili, MD, PhD, assistant professor of research radiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, as she described … Read More »
Keck Medical Center of USC, which includes Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital, was ranked No. 16 on the U.S. News & World Report 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, … Read More »
Are opioid medications the only way to fight pain? Experts at USC say no, as growing research shows that non-opioid pain medicine and other tools can help people reduce or even avoid the use of narcotics.
Pain management professionals use a … Read More »
July is Sarcoma Awareness Month. Sarcoma is a rare cancer that often originates deep in the body and develops from connective tissues, fat and muscle.
Sarcoma expert William Tseng, MD, associate professor of clinical surgery at the Keck School of Medicine … Read More »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded $3.75 million to the Department of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, for the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP). In … Read More »
Science was the common language at the first France-USA Stem Cell Symposium, held at the Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC. The event brought together more than 100 stem cell scientists … Read More »
In her new lab, Min Yu observed the eerie predictability of a line of human breast cancer cells. First in one mouse, then in many, the cells metastasized again and again to the same vital organ: the … Read More »
While wishing to remain anonymous, a generous donor has provided $25 million to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), an affiliate of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, to support the expansion of the CHLA Neurological Institute and the hospital’s … Read More »
On June 8, the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center participated in the American Cancer Society (ACS) Relay for Life event at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia.
The mission of the Relay for Life is to raise funds to improve cancer survival, … Read More »
A highly competitive $4.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will support Keck School of Medicine of USC efforts to recruit patients from underrepresented populations into cardiac surgery clinical … Read More »
When Denis Evseenko was still a student at Novosibirsk State Medical University in southern Siberia, he began pondering the meaning of life.
“I was reading a lot of philosophic things [saying that] everything is pointless because you will die,” … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC has named David Peng, MD, MPH, as president of USC Care Medical Group (USC Care), a faculty practice plan composed of Keck Medicine physicians at hospital clinics and … Read More »
What can looking at the brains of transgender people tell us about the physical and mental health resources they might need?
Not very much — yet.
But that is starting to change, said Jonathan Vanhoecke, MS, a budding expert … Read More »
If you’re worried about Alzheimer’s disease, your best shot at prevention could be maintaining cardiovascular health through exercise and diet and staying on top of conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
That’s because USC researchers suspect healthy blood vessels … Read More »
Greg Harlan, MD, spends most of his days teaching or practicing medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the university’s hospitals. But for the past six months, instead of heading home after … Read More »
It’s an unforeseen side effect of the nation’s opioid epidemic: adolescent heroin users.
A USC study in the July 8 issue of JAMA Pediatrics shows that teens who use prescription opioids to get high are more likely to start … Read More »
On June 29, the Keck Medicine of USC stroke team participated in the 22nd Annual Proyecto Pastoral Women’s Conference in Boyle Heights. More than 400 women attended workshops and lectures that focused on health, wellness and women empowerment.
The team offered … Read More »