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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.

Music could hold the key to developing effective mental health interventions

How human beings respond to music and the biological underpinnings of this response.

6 Dec 2023

The association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and subsequent risk of dementia

Researchers examined the link between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and the increased risk of dementia, utilizing a systematic review and meta-analysis approach to cohort studies.

5 Dec 2023

Early childhood education and care enhance language and problem-solving skills, study reveals

A study in the Journal of Early Childhood Research shows that early childhood education and care (ECEC) significantly benefits language development and problem-solving skills in children aged 5 to 23 months, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

4 Dec 2023

Mammography's effectiveness uncertain in women over 75, study shows

A British Journal of Cancer study reveals a lack of clear evidence on the benefits of mammography screening for women aged 75 and older, with findings showing an equal number of studies indicating both beneficial and no effects on mortality.

4 Dec 2023

Researchers evaluate performance of a large language model in phenotyping postpartum hemorrhage patients

Researchers evaluated the performance of a large language model (LLM) in phenotyping postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) patients using discharge notes.

4 Dec 2023

Desperate families search for affordable home care

It's a good day when Frank Lee, a retired chef, can slip out to the hardware store, fairly confident that his wife, Robin, is in the hands of reliable help. He spends nearly every hour of every day anxiously overseeing her care at their home on the Isle of Palms, a barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina.

4 Dec 2023

Navigating STXBP1-related disorders: Unraveling clinical and developmental outcomes

Researchers examined the combined patient-years of seizure and developmental histories in individuals with disorders related to the STXBP1 gene.

4 Dec 2023

Painless ultrasound vaccine delivery on the horizon

An estimated quarter of adults and two-thirds of children have strong fears around needles, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

3 Dec 2023

18-month meditation program improves psychological wellbeing in seniors

Following an 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults, finds a new randomised controlled trial by an international team co-led by UCL.

1 Dec 2023

Flexible parental leave policies key for immigrant integration: Study

Mothers who took parental leave part-time or for shorter periods were more likely to engage in income-generating activities or pursue education.

1 Dec 2023

Rhythmic speech, not phonetics, key to language learning in babies

Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers.

1 Dec 2023

Harnessing AI tools for life science research

Artificial intelligence (AI) may attempt to mimic the human brain, but it has yet to fully grasp the complexity of what it means to be human.

30 Nov 2023

Mapping emotions in the body: Study reveals physical topography of feelings

The study published in PNAS reveals that emotions create identifiable maps of bodily sensations, consistent across different cultures and races. Using a novel method named "embody," researchers found that subjective emotional experiences are linked to specific bodily changes, providing insights that could aid in understanding and treating mood disorders like depression and anxiety, which alter standard emotional processing.

30 Nov 2023

Researchers investigate the advantages and disadvantages of two types of contraceptive coils

In the "ThemenCheck Medizin" procedure offered by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), interested members of the public can submit proposals for the assessment of medical procedures and technologies.

29 Nov 2023

Early childhood education provides benefits for youngsters during the pandemic

The more time pre-schoolers spent in childcare during the first year of the pandemic, the more their vocabulary grew, a new study has found.

28 Nov 2023

Study reveals high alcohol consumption in men increases mortality risks in China

The associations of cause-specific mortality with alcohol intake.

28 Nov 2023

From 'Covidiots' to 'zoom fatigue': The new words of the pandemic

Remember 'Covidiots' and the first protests by 'anti-vaxxers'? The early stages of the pandemic saw plenty of new words enter the public 'voice', but many of these novel terms were actually fairly short-lived.

27 Nov 2023

New stem cell-based treatment for Type 1 diabetes can reduce dependence on daily insulin injections

An innovative stem cell-based treatment for Type 1 diabetes can meaningfully regulate blood glucose levels and reduce dependence on daily insulin injections, according to new clinical trial results from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).

27 Nov 2023

Infant face preference linked to genetics

Whether infants at five months of age look mostly at faces or non-social objects such as cars or mobile phones is largely determined by genes.

27 Nov 2023

Progressive and anti-abortion? New group plays fast and loose to make points

This summer pedestrians, drivers, and passengers in Washington, D.C., saw a new type of graffiti among the usual urban scrawls: anti-abortion advocacy designed to troll this ultra-blue city.

27 Nov 2023