Of all the heartrending phrases that came to define the deprivations of the COVID-19 pandemic, one stands out as particularly poignant: "skin hunger"—our visceral need for skin-to-skin contact.
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Despite a dramatic increase in the size of the Medicare-eligible population due to an aging society, enrollment in traditional Medicare declined by almost 3% since 2006. This was the result of a significant increase in the ...
Feb 9, 2023
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The majority of Americans do not know the threshold for normal/healthy blood pressure—yet they are confident that they do, according to a new USC study published this week in the journal Medical Decision Making.
Jan 26, 2023
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While the notion that people have five basic human senses is often considered a universal truth and can be traced back to Aristotle's "De Anima" ("On the Soul"), many philosophers and neuroscientists are now debating whether ...
Jan 19, 2023
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A new study in Aging Cell describes how a key protein called Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) might turn back the clock on aging cartilage that leads to osteoarthritis.
Jan 16, 2023
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The new year has begun, and with it, resolutions for change. A study from Keck Medicine of USC published today in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology gives people extra motivation to reduce fast-food consumption.
Jan 10, 2023
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In the early, hectic days of the COVID-19 pandemic, government officials, scientists, researchers and the world at large were scrambling to understand (and contain) the virus. But some scholars were already turning their ...
Jan 10, 2023
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The human brain holds many clues about a person's long-term health—in fact, research shows that a person's brain age is a more useful and accurate predictor of health risks and future disease than their birthdate. Now, ...
Jan 7, 2023
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There are no simple solutions to America's deadly overdose epidemic, which costs 100,000 lives each year and is erasing gains in life expectancy. But a team of USC researchers have found one low-cost intervention can make ...
Jan 6, 2023
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A new USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology study challenges existing ideas of how buildup of a protein called amyloid beta (Aβ) in the brain is related to Alzheimer's disease.
Jan 6, 2023
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