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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.

Painful sex in women after cancer needs to be addressed, UC Davis researcher suggests

Painful sex in women after cancer treatment is relatively common, often treatable and needs to be addressed by medical providers, a UC Davis oncologist and researcher suggests.

25 Oct 2016

Novel telemedicine speech therapy could improve dementia patient’s ability to recall words

A novel telemedicine speech therapy program for people with language problems due to dementia significantly improved their ability to recall words they had "lost," reports a new Northwestern Medicine study

25 Oct 2016

Preoperative anxiety may be huge problem among Latinos, new research suggests

Latinos may be more anxious than Caucasian patients about having surgery and also want more detailed information before having a procedure, suggests research being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2016 annual meeting.

24 Oct 2016

Scientists use male mice model to study how genes affect sequencing of vocal sounds

There's a particular order to the sounds of the ultrasonic song a male mouse performs to impress his potential mate.

20 Oct 2016

Folinic acid treatment could help improve language and communication skills of children with ASD

Prescription doses of folinic acid, which is a reduced form of a B vitamin known as folate, could help improve the language and communication skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

18 Oct 2016

Exposure to general anesthesia in young children not linked to long-term effects on brain development

Children who are exposed to general anesthesia from birth to age 2 have developmental testing results in kindergarten that are similar to those of children who have not been exposed, according to a new study published in the October issue of Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

18 Oct 2016

Experts develop new communication app for adult and pediatric ICU patients

The department of Intensive Care of the Radboud university medical center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has developed a unique communication app for adult and pediatric ICU patients, who cannot speak due to an intubation, being on a ventilator or breathing through a tracheostoma.

13 Oct 2016

Study links repeated SSRIs during pregnancy to childhood language disorders

The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors at least twice during pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk of offspring developing a speech and/or language disorder, according to a study from Columbia University.

13 Oct 2016

Does music improve child brain development?

We are a research group at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California. In 2012, we began a five-year longitudinal study in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and their Youth Orchestra program at the Heart of Los Angeles (YOLA at HOLA).

13 Oct 2016

Community outreach workers may help increase HBV vaccination rates to cut risk of liver cancer

Liver cancer is more common among Asian Americans in part because they are at high risk of HBV infection.

12 Oct 2016

Early touchscreen use may increase fine motor control in children

Does your toddler use a touchscreen tablet? A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology has shown that early touchscreen use, and in particular actively scrolling the screen, correlates with increased fine motor control in toddlers.

6 Oct 2016

Review examines link between insomnia and alcohol dependence

Individuals with alcohol dependence (AD) often have sleep-related disorders such as insomnia, circadian-rhythm sleep disorders, breathing-related sleep disorders, movement disorders, and parasomnias such as sleep-related eating disorder, sleepwalking, nightmares, sleep paralysis, and REM sleep behavior disorder.

5 Oct 2016

Many migrant farmworkers have visual impairment but do not receive routine vision screening

Migrant farmworkers have substantial rates of near- and distant-vision problems, but three-fourths have never had a vision screening test, reports a study in the October issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.

5 Oct 2016

Brain rehabilitation via a mobile app? An interview with Keith Cooper

When a person has a brain injury due to a stroke or a trauma, they typically start in a hospital emergency room to treat any life threatening injuries. They are then often transferred to an inpatient rehabilitation program at the hospital where they receive intensive physical and cognitive therapy until they are well enough to transition home.

5 Oct 2016

NCCN publishes new resources to help patients understand treatment options for stomach cancer

This year, it is estimated that more than 26,000 people will be diagnosed with Stomach Cancer in the United States, with nearly one million new cases diagnosed worldwide each year.

4 Oct 2016

New approach bolsters protein in blood vessels to protect against cerebral malaria

Boosting a protective protein to stabilize blood vessels weakened by malaria showed improved survival beyond that of antimalarial drugs alone in pre-clinical research.

30 Sep 2016

Trafficked people in England face significant barriers to access healthcare services, study finds

Trafficked people in England are often denied healthcare and face significant barriers to access NHS services, reveals new independent research funded by Department of Health Policy Research Programme and carried out by a team led by King's College London, the University of Stirling, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and The University of Central Lancashire.

29 Sep 2016

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Painful sex in women after cancer needs to be addressed, UC Davis researcher suggests

Novel telemedicine speech therapy could improve dementia patient’s ability to recall words

Preoperative anxiety may be huge problem among Latinos, new research suggests

Scientists use male mice model to study how genes affect sequencing of vocal sounds

Folinic acid treatment could help improve language and communication skills of children with ASD

Exposure to general anesthesia in young children not linked to long-term effects on brain development

Experts develop new communication app for adult and pediatric ICU patients

Study links repeated SSRIs during pregnancy to childhood language disorders

Does music improve child brain development?

Community outreach workers may help increase HBV vaccination rates to cut risk of liver cancer

Early touchscreen use may increase fine motor control in children

Review examines link between insomnia and alcohol dependence

Many migrant farmworkers have visual impairment but do not receive routine vision screening

Brain rehabilitation via a mobile app? An interview with Keith Cooper

NCCN publishes new resources to help patients understand treatment options for stomach cancer

New approach bolsters protein in blood vessels to protect against cerebral malaria

Trafficked people in England face significant barriers to access healthcare services, study finds

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