University of South Carolina News

Beth Marion, BSN, RN of Murrells Inlet, was named Nurse of the Year at Waccamaw Community Hospital, and Kerri Evans, BSN, BS, RN, of Andrews, was named Nurse of the Year at Georgetown Memorial Hospital.

The Board of County Commissioners appointed Shields to the position at its November 27, 2012 meeting.

A Columbia couple has filed a lawsuit against the Medical University of South Carolina, Greenville Hospital System, and the S.C. Department of Social Services for unnecessarily reassigning their son's gender.

Mount Pleasant Performing Arts Company dancers trained at Academy of Dance Arts with instructors Larisa Dahabi and Ann Bebergal started auditioning in January 2013 for various intensive dance programs throughout the country.

The first-grade students at W.B. Goodwin couldn't hold their cross-legged rows after a special reader, Cocky, came to the front of the library to act out each of the picture books.

The type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering, according to a new study conducted in controlled laboratory conditions.

COLUMBIA, S.C. A South Carolina state representative has been arrested on the Statehouse grounds and charged with driving under the influence, his second such charge in less than a year, but his lawyer said his client was not impaired.

From the Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC ; and Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA .

Parents of a child adopted seven years ago are suing the state, the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and Greenville Hospital System over the child's sex-assignment surgery, which they allege was medically unnecessary.

The Legislature elected a House member's father to the Medical University of South Carolina board after he agreed to pay higher property taxes at his beach home.

Hospital-acquired infections are a huge problem in the United States. Wouldn't it be amazing if they could be prevented merely through the materials used in the hospital room? Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina explored covering key surfaces in hospital intensive care units in copper alloy, and found that this is an effective ... (more)

Communication between patients and physicians regarding activities that may be beneficial to maintaining cognitive functioning during aging may be lacking, according to a study published online April 18 in Preventing Chronic Disease .

As ubiquitous as Ross and Rachel in the mid 1990s, Rucker's voice on the Hootie & the Blowfish hits "Only Want to Be With You," "Let Her Cry" and "Hold My Hand" poured deep and mellow from MTV and every jukebox and car radio on an hourly basis.

A Burton firefighter was honored last month for helping to successfully deliver and resuscitate a premature baby in February.

This week is ominously known as "Spoleto Week" here at the City Paper offices. It's the deceptively quiet week we spend preparing for the first of three big issues devoted to Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto.

Darius Rucker's musical career started nearly 30 years ago when he sang a Billy Joel song while alone in the communal shower in a dorm at the University of South Carolina.

A Columbia couple is suing the Medical University of South Carolina, Greenville Hospital System and the S.C. Department of Social Services on behalf of their 8-year-old son for performing “medically unnecessary” sex assignment surgery on the child in 2006.

Dr. John Bennett kicked off his arrival to the area by appearing in the Stand Up for America Day parade in Port Wentworth.

In a continued effort to help students succeed in their post graduate education endeavors, ETC Test Prep, a comprehensive test preparation provider for the GRE, GMAT, and LSAT, will award over $25,000 in full tuition scholarships for their GRE, GMAT, and LSAT programs beginning this Summer.

NeuroQuest, currently operating in Israel, will establish its U.S. affiliate and clinical development center in South Carolina.