Health

Recent chain store closures have driven an unprecedented decline in pharmacies, USC and UC Berkeley researchers find.

More than 1.4 million children have lost a family member to a drug overdose, with younger children increasingly affected, according to a USC Dornsife study.

Pioneering Little Yoginis program helps inner-city children in Los Angeles find peace.

Researchers at USC’s Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute are working to pinpoint the brain pathways affected by the psychiatric condition.

Adults who self-reported higher vulnerability toward financial exploitation showed lower thickness in a brain region that is affected early in Alzheimer’s.

USC researchers found that certain neighborhood factors were associated with higher levels of PFAS in the blood of Southern California residents, which increases the risk for disease.

The funding supports USC research into a therapy for dry age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in older adults.

The outbreak’s impact will likely be felt in grocery prices, including the cost of your Thanksgiving bird, and across supply chains. And get your flu shot, too, just to be safe.

Decoding emotions, especially sadness, behind masks requires extra brain power, complicating interactions for stressed parents and children in key stages of social-emotional development.

Among cancer survivors, male patients ages 15-39 have the highest rate of death by suicide, USC research finds.