A new paper from George Mason University outlines how health administration programs can better prepare students to support health care workers.

USC researchers continue to uncover new insights from a five-year project launched by health services policy and management associate professor Peiyin Hung and health promotion, education, and behavior professor Xiaoming Li to investigate maternal care and outcomes, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, their team received a $200,000 supplement to the initial $3 million National Institutes of Health U01 grant to further explore postpartum trends related to the intersection of residence location and race/ethnicity.

Choosing a Tinder profile picture seems like a free, personal and creative act. But to what extent is that true? A new study developed by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) reveals that, far from being unique, most users opt for one of a very limited number of visual strategies. The research, conducted by Alejandro García Alamán, a member of the CIRCLE Lab and course instructor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, identifies nine standardized types of profile that are systematically repeated on these kinds of platforms.

The study, based on an analysis of 1,000 real Tinder profiles in the Barcelona area, was published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine and combines psychological methods with data analysis and machine-learning techniques.

A new study published in JMIR Dermatology shows that TikTok has become a major source of education and support for people with skin of color living with hidradenitis suppurativa—a chronic, painful inflammatory skin disease that disproportionately affects people of color.

Researchers found that patients who had a single-stage total pancreatectomy faced more complications than patients that underwent a two-stage procedure. 

A Journal of Marketing study shows how immersive services that embrace consumer agency benefit from stronger, more loyal customer relationships.