‘The class that did the impossible’
Dexter Holland, student speaker deliver commencement speeches to Keck School of Medicine of USC’s PhD, DNAP, MPH & MS students By: Mollie Barnes Dextor Holland, USC PhD ... Read More »
Improving music appreciation for the world’s more than 700,000 cochlear implant users
For more than 700,000 cochlear implant users worldwide, music appreciation is not always what it should be. Dr. Goldsworthy and the Bionic Ear Lab at the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery are working to change that.
Q&A: Adam Leventhal with the latest on addiction in the era of COVID-19
Keck School of Medicine of USC researcher highlights drop in teen vaping, more use of food to cope, changes in adult drinking By Wayne Lewis In addition to ... Read More »
A New Generation of Speech-Language Pathologists is Being Trained at USC
The Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (MS-SLP) program, housed in the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, is entering the second semester of its first year, having opened in Fall 2021. The program leverages the Keck School of Medicine’s resources as a premiere medical school in the nation’s second largest city to train a new generation of speech-language pathologists.
Reducing air pollution could lower dementia risk
Improving air quality appears to slow cognitive decline and reduce the risk of developing dementia in older women living in the U.S..
For Cochlear Implant Users, the Music Plays On in Spite of the Pandemic
Among the countless areas disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, music was certainly among those most affected. Bands and music groups could no longer meet to rehearse, live music was canceled for more than a year, and physical sales of albums saw sharp declines. But for a group of hard-of-hearing cochlear implant users, the opportunity to create, discuss, and appreciate music played on.
Stopping arthritis before it starts
A novel off-the-shelf bio-implant containing embryonic stem cells has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of cartilage injuries By Sarah Nightingale More than a million Americans undergo knee ... Read More »
Vaping — not prior smoking — is associated with changes in gene regulation linked to disease
A team of researchers has demonstrated that — independent of the effects of prior smoking — using e-cigarettes is linked to adverse biological changes that can cause .
Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD, named dean of the Keck School of Medicine
Currently the chair of the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, Meltzer will assume her new role at USC effective March 1.