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• Most Low-Income Kids Keep Health Insurance Despite Premium Hike

  

  Nearly 4,500 low-income immigrant children, or 20 percent of overall membership, dropped out of a public health insurance program in Los Angeles County due to a premium increase, according to a 30-month analysis led by a Keck School of Medicine researcher.

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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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• 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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• USC-led Team Finds Functional Gene Mutation That Increases Risk for Lupus

  

  An international team of researchers led by Chaim O. Jacob, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and microbiology & immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, has identified a gene mutation involved in causing lupus, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the skin, joints and organs.

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