USC’s Angus Deaton and a colleague write that the obvious solutions — improving Medicaid, focusing on the crisis and concentrating on rural areas — won't solve the problem. The long-run solution, they say: higher wages and better jobs for working people.

Mexico-based James hd Brown is famous around the world, but he’s a virtual unknown in Los Angeles, his birthplace.

American music students traditionally have few chances for global study, but USC’s music school wants to change that.

Benita Walton-Moss teaches a health assessment course that covers signs of abuse.

Vocal screening clinics are part of a health and wellness push that’s catching on at top-tier music schools like USC Thornton.

Arthur Toga joins other researchers on the five-year study backed by a $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

USC’s Michael Habib says it may be because of the T. rex’s powerful bite: Those powerful neck muscles had to go somewhere, and they seem to have taken up the same shoulder space in which muscles for big arms would be.

USC’s Charles H. F. Davis III argues that policies punishing student activists — like those adopted this month by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents — can actually reinforce institutionalized white supremacy.