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• Study by Keck School Researcher Produces New Findings Related to Children with Autism and Gastrointestinal Dysfunction

  

  A researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has published a study highlighting the importance of physicians listening to parental reports of gastrointestinal problems in their autistic children and screening these children for gastrointestinal dysfunction, or GID.

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• Researchers Use Rat Stem Cells To Study Kaposi’s Sarcoma Virus

  

  Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers have singled out the rat mesenchymal stem cell as an effective cell model to study the virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common cancer among AIDS patients.

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• Obese Women On Depo-Provera May Increase Diabetes Risk, Study Shows

  

  Obese women may increase their risk for developing type 2 diabetes by using the birth control shot marketed as Depo-Provera, according to a small study by researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

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• Transformative Gift from W. M. Keck Foundation is Lead Donation in Keck Medicine Initiative

  

  Amid festive Trojan fanfare, USC faculty, staff and friends gathered on the university’s Health Sciences campus on Jan. 30 to celebrate the W. M. Keck Foundation’s recent, transformative $150 million naming gift.

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• Diet High in Fish May Help or Harm, New Prostate Cancer Study Shows

  

  New research from the Keck School of Medicine and Cancer Prevention Institute of California has found that eating salmon and other dark, fatty fish may decrease the risk of developing prostate cancer, while consuming flounder and other white, lean fish may increase the risk. It depends on how the fish is cooked.

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• Book by Keck School of Medicine Faculty Researcher Focuses on New View of Health

  

  A new definition of health and how to achieve it is the subject of a new book written by David B. Agus, M.D. a faculty physician and researcher in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).

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• FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Device Used at USC to Treat Heartburn

  

  A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel has endorsed approval of a novel device to treat severe acid reflux. The device was tested at USC in clinical trials led by John Lipham, associate professor of surgery at the Keck School of Medicine.

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