Recent News
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NIH to award $8 million for new USC Superfund Center to address ‘forever chemicals’
Monday, May 19, 2025
A team of scientists from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been awarded an $8 million, five-year grant from the the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, to launch the Southern California Superfund Research... Read More »
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$10 million gift to fund USC Longevity Research Accelerator initiative
Monday, May 19, 2025
The Keck School of Medicine of USC will launch a new research initiative focused on extending the human health span with a $10 million transformative gift from R. Rex Parris and his wife Carrol Parris. R. Rex Parris is the founding partner of the Parris Law Firm. The USC Parris... Read More »
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USC, UCLA team up for the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant
Monday, May 19, 2025
Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health have performed the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. The surgery was successfully completed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on May 4 in a joint effort by Inderbir Gill, MD, founding executive director of USC Urology, part of Keck Medicine of USC, and... Read More »
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2025 Nurses Week awards recognize nurses for bravery, compassion and innovation
Friday, May 16, 2025
On May 7, in honor of National Nurses Week, Keck Medical Center of USC and USC Care and Ambulatory Services recognized the organization’s nursing staff at its annual Nurses Week Recognition and Scholarship Awards ceremony. Over the course of an hour, nurse, physician and executive leadership thanked nursing staff for their... Read More »
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Mother’s Day tradition continues with rose deliveries for 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
In honor of Mother’s Day, the ambulatory infusion teams distributed roses to patients who visited USC Norris Cancer Day Hospital, the Norris Healthcare Center Treatment Center and Women’s Specialty Care Clinic, and Keck Medicine of USC treatment centers in Arcadia, Buena Park, Koreatown, Santa Clarita, Newport Beach and Pasadena during... Read More »
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Keck Medical Center of USC chef wins national award for plant-based recipe
Friday, May 9, 2025
Award-winning gourmet food is not something most people would expect to enjoy at a hospital. However, Keck Medical Center of USC's Executive Chef Luis Santos is working to change that. His plant-based deconstructed Honduran tamale was named this year’s winner of the nationwide Health Care Culinary Contest. Santos was recognized... Read More »
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Pharmacies excluded from preferred networks face higher risk of closure
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
A recent study led by Dima Mazen Qato, PhD, MPH, a senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and the Hygeia Centennial Chair at the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, shows that retail pharmacies excluded from Medicare Part D networks... Read More »
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Glendale Community College students participate in USC-VHH Day of Discovery
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
On May 2, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital welcomed 46 students from Glendale Community College for its first Healthcare Day of Discovery dedicated to college students. The event started with career panels and question-and-answer sessions led by professionals from a wide range of health care fields. In the afternoon, a circuit... Read More »
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Keck Medicine receives $10 million gift from medical inventor’s estate
Monday, May 5, 2025
Alfred E. Mann Charities has gifted $10 million to Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC to serve as an anchor gift for the state-of-the-art USC Cardiac and Vascular Pavilion within the USC Cardiac and Vascular Institute at Keck Hospital of USC. The money will... Read More »