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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.

High-quality education at early age linked to better relationships with parents later in life

Children who are given high-quality education at an early age - starting at six weeks old and continuing through their first five years of life - are more likely to be employed full-time and have better relationships with their parents as adults, according to new results from a longitudinal study now entering its fifth decade.

6 Apr 2017

European Commission releases two new Patient Blood Management guides

On April 3, 2017 the European Commission published two guides on the implementation of Patient Blood Management; one addressed to national authorities and the other to hospitals.

6 Apr 2017

Many patients struggle to understand complex health insurance plans, survey finds

A new survey by experts at the Health Disparities Institute of UConn Health shows that many patients across Connecticut are struggling to understand their complex, jargon-filled private health insurance plans and even to use their plan benefits correctly.

6 Apr 2017

Language and subgroup data critical to ensure optimal health care outcomes among Latinos

Latinos are the largest racial and ethnic group in the United States, and they comprise two-thirds of Americans with limited English proficiency. Language and Latino subgroup data are critical for public health and social justice, but are not routinely collected.

3 Apr 2017

Focus Games launches new educational game to improve communication between doctors and children

A new educational game to improve communication between medical professionals and children has been launched by Focus Games Ltd. Doctor Jargon (Paediatrics) is the first in the Dr Jargon series, designed to encourage health professionals to use simple, jargon-free language when talking to child patients about medical conditions, treatments and their health.

3 Apr 2017

Young people with autism face difficulty in recognising emotion from facial expressions, study finds

Young people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have difficulties recognising and distinguishing between different facial expressions, according to research from one of the largest studies to look at emotion recognition in children and adolescents with ASC.

31 Mar 2017

Aphasia may not solely be a language issue as traditionally believed, study shows

Aphasia, a language disorder commonly diagnosed in stroke patients, may not be solely a language issue as traditionally believed, according to a Penn State study.

30 Mar 2017

Caring about others can be reason behind choosing to get vaccinations, research shows

Since vaccines protect not only those who take them, but also the people who otherwise could have been infected, there are many plausible motives for choosing to get vaccinated.

29 Mar 2017

Popular cookbooks offer readers little useful advice about reducing food-safety risks, study finds

Study identifies correlations between gene data and brain activity during memory processing

Researchers have identified more than 100 genes important for memory in people. The study is the first to identify correlations between gene data and brain activity during memory processing, providing a new window into human memory.

27 Mar 2017

New CDISC data standard assists in development of potential Ebola treatments

The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium and the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory announce the availability of a new standard to assist in the collection, aggregation and analysis of Ebola virus disease research data.

24 Mar 2017

Study reveals intriguing crosstalk between metabolism and epigenetics in cancer development

A study published in Briefings in Functional Genomics investigated how epigenetics can modulate human's genetic program -- it can emphasize or silence genes.

24 Mar 2017

Brain makes new connections in blind people to enhance compensatory abilities

The brains of those who are born blind make new connections in the absence of visual information, resulting in enhanced, compensatory abilities such as a heightened sense of hearing, smell and touch, as well as cognitive functions (such as memory and language) according to a new study led by Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers.

23 Mar 2017

Children born to older mothers are at an advantage, report researchers

Children of older mothers experience fewer behavioral, social and emotional problems, according to a new study.

23 Mar 2017

IQWiG assesses potential of MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for uterine fibroids

For the first time since the corresponding law became effective in 2012, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care has published an assessment of the potential of a new treatment method according to §137e of Social Code Book V.

23 Mar 2017

Study: Unsaturated fatty acid metabolism associated with progression of Alzheimer's disease

A new study published in PLOS Medicine's Special Issue on Dementia has found that the metabolism of omega-3 and omega-6 unsaturated fatty acids in the brain are associated with the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

22 Mar 2017

New study highlights urgent need for tailored sexual health campaigns to help young female tourists

With both tourism and casual "hookup" sex on the rise among college-age adults, there's an urgent need for gender-sensitive and age-appropriate sexual health campaigns that are tailored to young women's motivations for taking sexual risks while traveling, a new study suggests.

22 Mar 2017

ECDC guidance aims to improve antenatal screening for infections to avoid mother-to-child transmission

Transmission of infections with HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis or rubella from mother to child before and during birth as well as in infancy still occur across Europe - despite existing prevention methods.

21 Mar 2017

Primitive numerical ability shared across many species stems from brain’s subcortex, research suggests

Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five-year, $751,000 faculty early career development grant from the National Science Foundation to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.

21 Mar 2017

New guide for health professionals features much-needed information for disaster management

A world-first grass-roots guide for doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health professionals will give them a much-needed common language to deal with the growing number of natural and man-made disasters worldwide.

21 Mar 2017

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High-quality education at early age linked to better relationships with parents later in life

European Commission releases two new Patient Blood Management guides

Many patients struggle to understand complex health insurance plans, survey finds

Language and subgroup data critical to ensure optimal health care outcomes among Latinos

Focus Games launches new educational game to improve communication between doctors and children

Young people with autism face difficulty in recognising emotion from facial expressions, study finds

Aphasia may not solely be a language issue as traditionally believed, study shows

Caring about others can be reason behind choosing to get vaccinations, research shows

Popular cookbooks offer readers little useful advice about reducing food-safety risks, study finds

Study identifies correlations between gene data and brain activity during memory processing

New CDISC data standard assists in development of potential Ebola treatments

Study reveals intriguing crosstalk between metabolism and epigenetics in cancer development

Brain makes new connections in blind people to enhance compensatory abilities

Children born to older mothers are at an advantage, report researchers

IQWiG assesses potential of MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for uterine fibroids

Study: Unsaturated fatty acid metabolism associated with progression of Alzheimer's disease

New study highlights urgent need for tailored sexual health campaigns to help young female tourists

ECDC guidance aims to improve antenatal screening for infections to avoid mother-to-child transmission

Primitive numerical ability shared across many species stems from brain’s subcortex, research suggests

New guide for health professionals features much-needed information for disaster management

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