By day, Lauana Rodrigues Pereira Herbert helps her medical team respond to a global pandemic. At night, she studies for her MBA in USC Marshall’s International Business Education and Research program.
Doctors, nurses and other health professionals provide support and guidance to USC students who need medical care, both on campus and online.
Keck Medicine of USC is resuming services for medically necessary, time-sensitive procedures with robust safety protocols in place for patients and staff.
“It’s their finest hour.” Recent graduates of USC’s family nurse practitioner program help people with the greatest need face the threat of COVID-19.
They’ve already trained to support their nurses. Now, surgical residents and fellows at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are once again going above and beyond their daily duties.
The grade reaffirms the hospital as among the safest in the United States.
Trojans across the world are stepping up in this time of need with 3D printing expertise, generous donations and countless acts of kindness in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
From coast to coast and throughout China, an extended Trojan Family is gathering on apps like WeChat to leverage their contacts and collect much-needed supplies for USC’s medical professionals.
Their newly designed mathematical method helps choose who to treat first when resources and data are scarce.
As patients with COVID-19 receive treatment at local hospitals, health experts work behind the scenes to look after those on the front lines: USC’s physicians, nurses and other medical workers.
Three scholars at the USC Schaeffer Center call on hospitals that have avoided a rush of COVID-19 patients to open beds for non-infected patients who require medical care.
While paramedics and EMTs are overwhelmed in New York City, ambulance workers in other parts of the country are experiencing turbulent times of their own, a USC sociologist finds.
Pregnant women and new mothers want to know how the coronavirus will affect their newborns. From breastfeeding safety to viral transmission in the womb, Keck Medicine of USC maternal-fetal medicine specialist Marc Incerpi, answers burning questions about pregnancy during the pandemic.
According to a new USC study, dihydromyricetin — an over-the-counter herbal hangover cure — may also help people cope with alcoholism and liver damage.
A partnership between USC Viterbi and the Keck School of Medicine has produced a system — built from off-the-shelf items — that uses UV light to disinfect face shields.
Many patients at Keck Medicine of USC now receive care online or by phone thanks to experts who’ve worked tirelessly behind the scenes.
Keck School of Medicine of USC surgical residents have embraced learning nursing skills. With more caregivers knowing how to draw blood and insert IV lines, medical teams will have the flexibility to better care for growing numbers of COVID-19 patients.
As Keck Medicine of USC health care workers seek masks, eyewear and other equipment to guard them from the new coronavirus, their colleagues across the university and beyond are stepping up.
Traffic conditions affect patient access to comprehensive stroke centers — particularly in disadvantaged neighborhoods, a new USC study found.
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak and the rising number of cases in California, Keck Medicine of USC has announced new precautions to protect staff and patients.
A professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC describes the risk COVID-19 poses to homeless individuals and encourages public health agencies at all levels to respond.
In a first, a USC study has shown that drugs already being used for blood pressure and cholesterol control could provide benefits for Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
A clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC explains why staying warm can help you fight off infections.
Smoke exposure can alter how the liver processes fats, according to lab research, ultimately contributing to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.