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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.

New NIH grant could help develop novel tool to analyze unstructured data in safety reports

Reports that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States have led the Institute of Medicine and several state legislatures to suggest that data from patient safety event reporting systems could help health care providers better understand safety hazards and, ultimately, improve patient care.

13 Nov 2019

Early screen exposure associated with elevated sleep disruption, EBD in children with NDDs

Digital media have become an integral part of lifestyles in recent years, and the ubiquity of digital devices coupled with poor screen use habits can have a detrimental effect on the developmental and psychosocial well-being of children.

13 Nov 2019

Certain brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia for successful speech entrainment

In an article in Brain, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and elsewhere report which brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to perform well in a speech entrainment session, successfully following along with another speaker.

12 Nov 2019

Depression in middle and older adulthood associated with nutrition

Your diet can put you at risk of depression, according to a new study. The study also found that the likelihood of depression is higher among middle-aged and older women who were immigrants to Canada when compared to Canadian-born women.

12 Nov 2019

Researchers develop metaphor 'Menu' for cancer patients

The first manual of expressions describing cancer has been developed by researchers to help patients make sense of their disease.

11 Nov 2019

Toddlers with fewer spoken words have more frequent, severe temper tantrums

Toddler speech delays and temper tantrums have long been assumed to go hand in hand, but no large-scale research had successfully backed up that assumption with data.

11 Nov 2019

Eight tips to help ensure the success of men's health programs

With November comes Movember, putting the spotlight on men's health, and UBC nursing professor John Oliffe has a few tips that can help ensure the success of men's health programs.

7 Nov 2019

Natural language processing helps evaluate electronic messages from ESLD patients

Natural language processing, the technology that lets computers read, decipher, understand and make sense of human language, is the driving force behind internet search engines, email filters, digital assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, and language-to-language translation apps.

From Johns Hopkins Medicine 7 Nov 2019

Fujitsu successfully verifies AI technology to improve efficiency in cancer genomic medicine

Fujitsu has announced the results of a joint research project it has been conducting with the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo since April 2018.

6 Nov 2019

Picky eaters and problem feeders benefit from the first Pediatric Feeding Group

Local children are learning how to enjoy eating during the first Pediatric Feeding Group at the Wichita State University Speech-Language-Hearing (SLH) Clinic.

6 Nov 2019

New online resource to help caregivers navigate issues related to firearm access and dementia

Today, faculty members at the University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus announced the Safety in Dementia website, the first comprehensive online resource to help caregivers navigate issues related to firearm access and dementia.

5 Nov 2019

Americans report significant stress due to health care, mass shootings, 2020 elections

A year before the 2020 presidential election, Americans report various issues in the news as significant sources of stress, including health care, mass shootings and the upcoming election, according to this year's Stress in America survey by the American Psychological Association.

5 Nov 2019

UNLV psychologist shares practical ways to overcome the holiday stress

Charlie Brown might have said it best as he opined to his pal, Linus: "Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel."

4 Nov 2019

Twitter use could predict loneliness, mental health issues

For all the rush and busyness of daily life, it gets to be very lonely, for at least 20% of people in the US. And since loneliness is a potent ingredient in the mix that produces heart disease, stroke, dementia and depression – among other health issues – it deserves a place in public health policy.

4 Nov 2019

Tweets could be used to predict loneliness in Twitter users

Loneliness is estimated to affect roughly one in five adults in the United States. It also stands as a public health crisis because loneliness has been tied to depression, cardiovascular disease and dementia, among other conditions.

4 Nov 2019

Cigarettes vs. vaping: That’s the ‘wrong comparison,’ says inhalation researcher

Ilona Jaspers initially approached the outbreak of vaping-related illnesses with a clinical curiosity.

4 Nov 2019

Study finds altered brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder

The left and right halves of our brains develop differently, as each hemisphere 'specialises' in certain functions. For example, for most people the left hemisphere--controlling the right hand--is dominant for language.

31 Oct 2019

Education level and socioeconomic status can predict thinking and memory performance

How well eight-year-olds score on a test of thinking skills may be a predictor of how they will perform on tests of thinking and memory skills when they are 70 years old, according to a study published in the October 30, 2019, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

31 Oct 2019

Portage, Geauga and Lake counties to get new drug prevention infrastructures

Kent State University's College of Public Health is teaming up with the Department of Computer Science to develop and implement drug prevention infrastructure in Portage, Geauga and Lake counties.

30 Oct 2019

Botswana now the origin of humans

A group of scientists have reported their new theory that human life was first seen in northern Botswana, south of the Zambezi river in Africa, according to their article published in the journal Nature.

29 Oct 2019

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New NIH grant could help develop novel tool to analyze unstructured data in safety reports

Early screen exposure associated with elevated sleep disruption, EBD in children with NDDs

Certain brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia for successful speech entrainment

Depression in middle and older adulthood associated with nutrition

Researchers develop metaphor 'Menu' for cancer patients

Toddlers with fewer spoken words have more frequent, severe temper tantrums

Eight tips to help ensure the success of men's health programs

Natural language processing helps evaluate electronic messages from ESLD patients

Fujitsu successfully verifies AI technology to improve efficiency in cancer genomic medicine

Picky eaters and problem feeders benefit from the first Pediatric Feeding Group

New online resource to help caregivers navigate issues related to firearm access and dementia

Americans report significant stress due to health care, mass shootings, 2020 elections

UNLV psychologist shares practical ways to overcome the holiday stress

Twitter use could predict loneliness, mental health issues

Tweets could be used to predict loneliness in Twitter users

Cigarettes vs. vaping: That’s the ‘wrong comparison,’ says inhalation researcher

Study finds altered brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder

Education level and socioeconomic status can predict thinking and memory performance

Portage, Geauga and Lake counties to get new drug prevention infrastructures

Botswana now the origin of humans

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