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Study investigates how brain lesion affects child’s language localization and abilities

Children with brain injuries are able to reorganize their language relevant areas into other, healthy brain areas and thus maintain their ability to speak.

29 Oct 2018

Interweaving anxiety disorder associated with stuttering remains unrecognized

While stuttering impacts the lives of approximately 1-2 percent of adults and around 4-5 percent of children, the mental health impact of this disorder largely remains unrecognized.

23 Oct 2018

Speech Pathology Australia raises awareness about Developmental Language Disorder

Speech Pathology Australia is driving a campaign in Australia to shed light on a hidden condition that affects on average two children in every classroom.

19 Oct 2018

As billions in tax dollars flow to private Medicaid plans, Who’s minding the store?

Like most people on Medicaid, the Los Angeles trucker was assigned to a private insurance company that coordinated his medical visits and treatment in exchange for receiving a set fee per month — an arrangement known as managed care.

19 Oct 2018

UT Southwestern biochemist receives 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for innate immunity discovery

UT Southwestern biochemist Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen today was named winner of the prestigious 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discovery of the cGAS enzyme that launches the body's immune defense against infections and cancers.

19 Oct 2018

Medicare for all? CMS chief warns program has enough problems already

The Trump administration's top Medicare official Tuesday slammed the federal health program as riddled with problems that hinder care to beneficiaries, increase costs for taxpayers and escalate fraud and abuse.

16 Oct 2018

Trump administration, pharma exchange verbal volleys on drug-price transparency

The Trump administration and drugmakers are squaring off over a proposal to show drug prices in television ads.

16 Oct 2018

Research reveals how the inner ear processes speech

Results from a research study published in Nature Communications show how the inner ear processes speech, something that has until now been unknown. The authors of the report include researchers from Linköping University, Sweden, and Oregon Health & Science University, United States.

15 Oct 2018

Individuals who walk regularly have reduced risk of severe stroke

Physical activity not only reduces the risk of stroke. Individuals who walk at least 30 minutes a day also have a lower risk of severe stroke, according to a new study in Neurology.

12 Oct 2018

Infant’s complex babble may predict later literacy skills

Infants’ early speech production may predict their later literacy, according to a study published October 10, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Kelly Farquharson from Florida State University and colleagues.

12 Oct 2018

Fact-check: Who’s right on protections for preexisting conditions? It’s complicated

Ensuring that people with preexisting health conditions can get and keep health insurance is the most popular part of the Affordable Care Act. It has also become a flashpoint in this fall's campaigns across the country.

11 Oct 2018

Will Maine voters decide to make aging in place affordable?

As Election Day draws near, a ballot initiative in Maine to provide universal home care is shining a spotlight on the inadequacies of the nation's long-term care system.

11 Oct 2018

NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to build AI infrastructure for improving patient care

King's College London was today announced as the first partner to adopt the NVIDIA DGX-2 and NVIDIA Clara platform.

11 Oct 2018

Pioneering software system hopes to make epilepsy surgery safer and easier

A team of researchers, clinicians and engineers from UCLH, UCL, King's College London and the Epilepsy Society have developed a world-leading software system called EpiNav, which stands for epilepsy navigation, and their work is being featured on tonight's episode of the BBC's Trust Me I'm a Doctor.

10 Oct 2018

Dementia prevention trial participants are motivated by altruism, study suggests

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with collaborators across the country, report that people who participate in dementia prevention trials are primarily motivated by altruism and pleased to help.

6 Oct 2018

FDA authorizes marketing of new Bose Hearing Aid

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of a new device, the Bose Hearing Aid, intended to amplify sounds for individuals 18 years or older with perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment (hearing loss).

5 Oct 2018

Managing your mental health while managing a newsroom’s social media

Like many people in society today, we know we spend too much time online — but as social media managers it is our job to be there. Social media managers, a position that was unheard of a decade ago, experience tremendous stress.

5 Oct 2018

Molecule research reveals potential drug target for treating stroke patients

In an extension of research published a month ago in Nature Methods, a novel hybrid approach performed by researchers from Clemson University's department of physics and astronomy and Stony Brook University has revealed a 3-D structure of a protein fragment that could serve as a drug target in treating stroke patients.

3 Oct 2018

NIH Director's New Innovator Award for Vanderbilt professor

Reyna Gordon, PhD, assistant professor of Otolaryngology and director of the Music Cognition Lab in the Department of Otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award of $2.3 million in total costs for her project, "Biomarkers of Rhythmic Communication: Integrating Foundational and Translational Approaches."

3 Oct 2018

Brown researchers understand neural mechanisms behind contextual phenomena

Optical illusions can be fun to experience and debate, but understanding how human brains perceive these different phenomena remains an active area of scientific research.

24 Sep 2018

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Study investigates how brain lesion affects child’s language localization and abilities

Interweaving anxiety disorder associated with stuttering remains unrecognized

Speech Pathology Australia raises awareness about Developmental Language Disorder

As billions in tax dollars flow to private Medicaid plans, Who’s minding the store?

UT Southwestern biochemist receives 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for innate immunity discovery

Medicare for all? CMS chief warns program has enough problems already

Trump administration, pharma exchange verbal volleys on drug-price transparency

Research reveals how the inner ear processes speech

Individuals who walk regularly have reduced risk of severe stroke

Infant’s complex babble may predict later literacy skills

Fact-check: Who’s right on protections for preexisting conditions? It’s complicated

Will Maine voters decide to make aging in place affordable?

NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to build AI infrastructure for improving patient care

Pioneering software system hopes to make epilepsy surgery safer and easier

Dementia prevention trial participants are motivated by altruism, study suggests

FDA authorizes marketing of new Bose Hearing Aid

Managing your mental health while managing a newsroom’s social media

Molecule research reveals potential drug target for treating stroke patients

NIH Director's New Innovator Award for Vanderbilt professor

Brown researchers understand neural mechanisms behind contextual phenomena

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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