June 2021

MarketWatch featured research by Andrei Irimia of the USC Leonard Davis School and the USC Viterbi School on the healthy aging of the indigenous Tsimane people in Bolivia. “They have the lowest incidence of heart disease of all the people’s known to science, and they seem to have much slower rates of brain atrophy with age,” he said.

O Quarterly quoted Thalida Em Arpawong in a feature about resilience and growth after trauma. “When your sense of safety, well-being and identity is challenged and you have to rethink who you are and what you want, that’s when growth happens.”

New York Times mentioned research by University Professor Eileen Crimmins and alumna Morgan Levine comparing how men 60 to 79 years old aged in 1988 to 1994 and in 2007 to 2010. They found that in those later years, the men they studied had a biological age four years less than the men in the earlier years, in part because of improvements in lifestyle and medications. This suggests that not only are people living longer, they’re also staying healthier longer.

CNBC featured Paul Aisen of USC’s Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute, Christian Pike of the USC Leonard Davis School and Darius Lakdawalla of the USC Schaeffer Center on the FDA’s controversial approval of the drug aducanumab for Alzheimer’s.

Gizmodo and The Week featured research by Andrei Irimia that identified less brain atrophy among the indigenous Tsimane people in Bolivia.

U.S. News & World Report (via HealthDay) featured research by Andrei Irimia that identified less brain atrophy among the indigenous Tsimane people in Bolivia. Additional coverage was found via Yahoo News, the Hindustan Times and La Nación.