Clinical trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week offer additional evidence that a new device may help relieve chronic heartburn symptoms that standard treatment cannot. The Keck Medical Center of USC was one of 14 U.S. and European medical centers to test the device prior to its March 2012 approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

If you've been getting your weather forecasts from the thermometer at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, you've really been walking on sunshine.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Argus II retinal prosthesis system for use in the United States.

USC's Mark Humayun and his team helped lead the development of the first retinal prosthesis approved for use in the United States

Medical scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have bred a first-of-its-kind mouse model that possesses an immune response system more like a human's. The discovery makes way for quicker and more cost-effective development of next-generation drugs to treat human diseases like cancer, diabetes and tuberculosis.

What came first: the bipedal human ancestor or the grassland encroaching on the forest?

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