Next Avenue featured research and comments by USC Leonard Davis School Research Assistant Professor Anna Rahman on how Yelp ratings for nursing homes and ratings from the government-run Nursing Home Compare website don’t correlate well.
New Scientist featured research by Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School about the health benefits of a fasting-mimicking diet and its possible relief of irritable bowel disease. By reducing caloric intake and carefully monitoring what foods were consumed, Longo and his team found the amount of stem cells increased in the gut, a sign of regeneration, and reversed inflammation in the colon. Daily Mail (UK), MindBodyGreen, KPFA-FM and Agencia EFE also featured the study’s results.
Clinical trial shows reduction of inflammation in humans; fasting-mimicking diet appears to reverse Crohn’s and colitis pathology in mice.
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2019 USC Senior Living Executive Course emphasizes the need to address affordability and better serve people of all cognitive abilities.
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Vox featured research by Jessica Ho of the USC Leonard Davis School about global drug overdose deaths and how the United States compares to other high-income countries. For the past 10 years, America’s drug overdose mortality is the highest among its peer countries. This has also had impacts on life expectancy. Earth also highlighted the study’s results.
Smithsonian featured research by Jessica Ho of the USC Leonard Davis School about global drug overdose death rates and how the United States compares to other high-income countries. “While the United States is not alone in experiencing increases in drug overdose mortality, the magnitude of the differences in levels of drug overdose mortality is staggering,” Ho said. Her study shows American overdose death rates are 3.5 times higher, on average, than those of 17 other wealthy countries, and that drug overdose mortality is widening the life expectancy gap between the United States and its peer countries.
Santa Monica Daily Press cited research by Caleb Finch and Jiu-Chiuan Chen of the Keck School of Medicine of USC about the link between air pollution and reduced mental capacity.
Capital Public Radio quoted Donna Benton of the USC Leonard Davis School about the growing number of caregivers and risk of depression among caregivers. “For family caregivers, almost 50 percent report some type of strain or symptoms of depression,” Benton said.
Los Angeles Times quoted Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School about the obsession with immortality among tech industry executives.
Health Affairs featured a blog post by USC Leonard Davis Research Assistant Professor Anna Rahman about how the distinction between palliative care and end-of-life care needs to be made clearer. “Consistently conflating palliative care and hospice care threatens to undermine our field’s credibility and our ability to help patients who could benefit from the extra layer of support palliative care provides,” she wrote.
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