USC researchers have found the likely order in which COVID-19 symptoms first appear: fever, cough, muscle pain, and then nausea, and/or vomiting, and diarrhea.
Aug 13, 2020
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A pair of recently published USC studies add to our growing understanding of how fine particle pollution—the tiny, inhalable pollutants from cars and power plants—impacts our brains.
Aug 6, 2020
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Before ventilators and CPR came along in the 1950s, declaring death was simple: A person with no heartbeat or respiration was dead. With technology that can restart the heart or keep the heart and lungs going, determination ...
Aug 4, 2020
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The first disease-modifying Alzheimer's disease treatments are on the horizon, but health systems in the United States and Europe would have to take a number of steps to ensure they are ready to provide those treatments to ...
Jul 30, 2020
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For many with end-stage lung disease, lung transplantation has become a viable option to extend lives and improve the quality of life.
Jul 27, 2020
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Nearly everyone is familiar with the feeling of struggling through math problems. Now, researchers are figuring out how to get people with back pain to move more like people without it—using the diversion of mental math.
Jul 24, 2020
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A USC-led team of scientists has found that a fasting-mimicking diet combined with hormone therapy has the potential to help treat breast cancer, according to newly published animal studies and small clinical trials in humans.
Jul 21, 2020
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Dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD) poses a significant clinical challenge. It is one of the leading causes of progressive blindness, robbing millions of people over the age of 65 of their central vision, and it ...
Jul 21, 2020
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Inefficiencies and flaws in the American health care system are so dramatically highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic that public anger may force changes that lobbyists in Washington will not be able to block. This according ...
Jul 17, 2020
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By age 20, many adults will have at least some build-up of plaque in their arteries; a condition known as atherosclerosis. Many of us won't even be aware of it. Regardless of whether an atherosclerotic plaque is large or ...
Jul 17, 2020
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