The revamped platform helps policymakers, journalists and government officials identify neighborhoods that are losing their local pharmacies.
USC experts confirm biological challenges of the time change; if anything, they say we should be on standard time all year.
A USC-led study finds that heartbeat-to-heartbeat blood pressure instability correlates with loss of brain tissue.
The chemical commonly known as PCE, which is found in consumer products and used in dry cleaning, is shown to triple the risk of liver fibrosis.
The chemical commonly known as PCE, which is found in consumer products and used in dry cleaning, is shown to triple the risk of liver fibrosis.
The academy recognized Lakdawalla for transforming the study of value in health care.
USC physician-scientists Denis Evseenko and Toby Maher are working on a regenerative drug to block the cells that promote fibrosis, or scarring, in the lungs.
Suicide is often thought of as the result of mental health struggles; however, over half of people who die by suicide do not have a known prior mental health condition. Many of these people die on their first suicide attempt, sometimes with little or no indication to those around them that they are considering ending their life. One thing that distinguishes this population is that they are more likely to die in the context of specific stressful life circumstances, such as relationship, health or financial problems, life stressors and recent or impending crises, than other people with a history of suicide attempt. Given that 50-60% of people who die by suicide do not tell anyone beforehand, a core challenge of suicide prevention today is how to identify those people most at risk of falling through the cracks and design upstream interventions to help them.
