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The Keck School of Medicine of USC has marked its most successful year of fundraising since 2009, raising almost $200 million and receiving six major gifts collectively worth nearly $125 million in the 2014-15 fiscal year. Overall, nearly 52,000 donors...

Teenagers who don’t think cigarettes are cool anymore may be embracing electronic cigarettes under the influence of friends and family, according to research by Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) scientists.
The study, published July 27, 2015 in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics, surveyed more than 2,000 Southern California 11th and 12th graders and discovered that psychosocial factors including attitudes of family and friends toward e-cigarettes, as...

Photo: Steve, patient of Niels C. Kokot, MD, pictured with his wife and two dogs
Steve, a wine and spirits division manager in the San Gabriel Valley, first noticed a lump on his neck about the size of a pea in May of 2010.
An emergency tonsillectomy and biopsy revealed stage 4 squamous cell cancer. Stunned and unsure what to do, Steve followed the recommendation of his doctor to see Niels Kokot, MD. Rattled by the diagnosis, Steve was put at ease by Kokot’s caring approach...

From neuroscientists to engineers, USC researchers delve into what happens during slumber—and how to help us get more of it.
In the classic fairy tale, Snow White bites into an apple and slips into a state of suspended animation. For her fellow figment of fiction, man-about-the-Catskills character Rip Van Winkle, a sip of moonshine affords the luxury of sleeping through the...