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Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom.

‘Heart’ of Little Shell: Newest federally recognized tribe to open first clinic

Louella Fredrickson has long created workarounds to fill gaps in the spotty medical care available to her as a member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana.

20 Jan 2022

Study shows inequalities in addressing post-acute neurological manifestations of COVID-19

Researchers have explored the inequities in understanding and addressing the neurological complications of COVID-19 among marginalized communities in the United States.

19 Jan 2022

New findings show the potential for language to enhance trust in COVID-19 vaccines

A simple language intervention has the potential to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates, by strengthening trust in the vaccines, researchers say.

19 Jan 2022

Study analyzes emotional regulation in children diagnosed with SLI/DLD

Problems when talking, communicating and expressing feelings are common among children and adolescents, in particular at an early age. These difficulties increase in the case of those diagnosed with developmental language disorder, which affects approximately 7% of the child population.

18 Jan 2022

Using action video games to enhance reading skills in children

Decoding letters into sound is a key point in learning to read but is not enough to master it.

17 Jan 2022

Review explores patients' and physicians' experiences with remote consultations in primary care

According to the Royal College of General Practitioners, at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ways in which patients accessed their GP reversed from around 70% face-to-face and 30% by phone, video or online pre-pandemic to around 30% face-to-face and 70% remote.

17 Jan 2022

New pioneering test helps predict the spread of deadly skin cancer

A pioneering test which reliably predicts the spread or return of the most deadly form of skin cancer has been developed by a team of Newcastle scientists and clinicians.

16 Jan 2022

Justices block broad worker vaccine requirement, allow health worker mandate to proceed

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a key Biden administration covid-19 initiative — putting a stop, for now, to a rule requiring businesses with more than 100 workers to either mandate that employees be vaccinated against covid or wear masks and undergo weekly testing.

13 Jan 2022

Forecasting seasonal SARS-CoV-2 mutations

In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers have been trying to create a technique to predict which of these mutations will spread.

13 Jan 2022

rTMS may have the potential to improve memory function in Veterans with cognitive impairment

Current treatments for Alzheimer's disease are of limited effectiveness and do not halt the progression of the disease and associated cognitive decline.

12 Jan 2022

Male workers more likely to engage in deviant behavior in response to gender threats

When male workers believe their gender status is threatened, they are more likely than their female counterparts to engage in deviant behavior such as lying, cheating or stealing in the workplace, new research suggests.

12 Jan 2022

New study highlights COVID-19 vaccine inequities in California

As the pandemic stretches into its third year, people around the globe have benefitted from cutting-edge vaccines that have prevented infection with COVID-19 or mitigated its impact. Yet, vaccine access has not been distributed evenly across populations.

12 Jan 2022

Severity of menopause symptoms linked to a woman's cognitive performance

Menopause is often accompanied by an array of symptoms that can detract from a woman's quality of life. A new study suggests that the severity of some of those symptoms - especially depression and sexual dysfunction - were linked to a woman's cognitive performance.

12 Jan 2022

NAU bioengineer receives grant to improve the accuracy, fidelity of cardiovascular flow models

Accurately measuring blood flow is critical to the fundamental understanding of cardiovascular disease and clinical decision making. Although researchers have made great strides in computational and experimental blood flow modeling, reliable data is still difficult to generate in large quantities.

12 Jan 2022

Decoding imagined language to treat people suffering from aphasia

What if it were possible to decode the internal language of individuals deprived of the ability to express themselves? This is the objective of a team of neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University Hospitals of Geneva.

11 Jan 2022

Social distancing surveillance: how robots will keep you in line

Could a COVID-19 robot help in social distancing surveillance? We spoke to Professor Dinesh Manocha and Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy about how their new robot may be able to do just that.

10 Jan 2022

Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families

This time, it didn’t take much persuading for Mary Murphy to embrace home hospice. When her mother was dying from Alzheimer’s disease in 2020, she had been reluctant until she saw what a help it was. So when her husband, Willie, neared the end of his life, she embraced hospice again.

10 Jan 2022

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‘Heart’ of Little Shell: Newest federally recognized tribe to open first clinic

Study shows inequalities in addressing post-acute neurological manifestations of COVID-19

New findings show the potential for language to enhance trust in COVID-19 vaccines

Study analyzes emotional regulation in children diagnosed with SLI/DLD

Using action video games to enhance reading skills in children

Review explores patients' and physicians' experiences with remote consultations in primary care

New pioneering test helps predict the spread of deadly skin cancer

Justices block broad worker vaccine requirement, allow health worker mandate to proceed

Forecasting seasonal SARS-CoV-2 mutations

rTMS may have the potential to improve memory function in Veterans with cognitive impairment

Male workers more likely to engage in deviant behavior in response to gender threats

New study highlights COVID-19 vaccine inequities in California

Severity of menopause symptoms linked to a woman's cognitive performance

NAU bioengineer receives grant to improve the accuracy, fidelity of cardiovascular flow models

Decoding imagined language to treat people suffering from aphasia

Social distancing surveillance: how robots will keep you in line

Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families

Small cluster of neurons in the brain stem found to coordinate vocalization with breathing

A catch-22 trips up some in legal guardianship who try to regain independence

Dog brains can detect speech and show different activity patterns to many languages

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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