One Family Supports Health Care Workers from Wuhan to Los Angeles
A grandmother in China who was a nurse inspired her family in Los Angeles to support frontline medical workers in Wuhan, Guangzhou and at Keck Medicine of USC. [...]
The Watt Family Continues A Tradition of Support
Scott and Obaida Watt with their four sons. Building on their family’s longstanding commitment to USC, Scott Watt and his wife, Obaida, donated 1,000 lunches from [...]
A Giving Trojan Family
Herman Yu and boxes of masks ready for shipment. When US hospitals called for surgical masks, Jonathan Yu, a high school junior, sold sweatshirts he designed [...]
Keck School’s Street Med program featured in Sunday LAT
Brett Feldman, Eddie Menacho and Gabrielle Johnson work as part of the Street Medicine team at USC, which provides medical care to people who are living on [...]
USC’s new Alzheimer’s study featured in TV report
If it’s confirmed that a drug can remove memory-stealing plaques from the brain before the damage from Alzheimer’s disease is already done, “we may really change the course [...]
Vapers Show Cancer-Associated Biological Changes Similar to Smokers
(Photo/shutterstock). Biologically important changes in DNA seen in smokers are also being found in people who vape, according to a new study published in the journal [...]
Keck School’s ATRI to launch massive trial of drug that could treat Alzheimer’s
Colored light micrograph of brain tissue from an Alzheimer's disease sufferer. Both of the classic pathological features of this disease are seen here. Both of these abnormalities [...]
Improving the patient experience through research
Lisa and her husband, Barry, are members of the Keck Medicine of USC Leadership Board. They have two daughters currently enrolled as pre-med students at USC. Lisa Cohen’s cancer battle led
Helping patients get back to doing the things they love most
In 2016, Julie Hollinger Pascal suffered a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed from the arms down and unable to do the things she loves most; spending [...]
