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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.

Fetal exposure to epilepsy medications does not affect neurodevelopment in children

Most mothers who took prescription antiseizure medications during pregnancy can breathe a sigh of relief: A new study published today in Lancet Neurology found that young children who were exposed to commonly-prescribed medications in utero do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes than children of healthy women.

19 Jul 2023

AI and infection control: preventing infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics

Researchers discussed the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in preventing outbreaks of infectious diseases and future pandemics.

19 Jul 2023

Hearing aids may offer protection against cognitive decline in older adults at high risk of dementia

While hearing aids and audiological support services did not have any impact on cognitive decline over 3 years in a general population of older adults, treating hearing loss protected against cognitive decline in older adults at greater risk of dementia.

18 Jul 2023

Empowering healthcare with AI: LungDiag NLP system transforms respiratory disease diagnosis

An artificial intelligence (AI) -based diagnostic system, LungDiag, to diagnose respiratory diseases.

14 Jul 2023

ChatGPT shows promise in addressing heart failure queries with accuracy and precision

Researchers evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of responses from ChatGPT in answering heart failure-related questions.

14 Jul 2023

AI-enhanced companion robots may help alleviate the loneliness epidemic in future

Companion robots enhanced with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate the loneliness epidemic, suggests a new report from researchers at Auckland, Duke, and Cornell Universities.

12 Jul 2023

Emory, Georgia Tech researchers explore how AI can increase access to COVID-19 treatment

To address an emerging issue in health care delivery, researchers from Emory University's School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can offer a way to increase efficiency of diagnoses and treatment.

11 Jul 2023

£1.5 million funding boost awarded for revolutionary test to improve early detection of Alzheimer's

A significant NIHR grant will enable researchers at the universities of Bath and Bristol, in collaboration with Cumulus Neuroscience, to develop revolutionary technology to help expand early dementia diagnosis.

11 Jul 2023

$40.5 million NIA grant to fund study of Alzheimer's disease in Asian Americans and Asian Canadians

A $40.5 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will fund the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer's Disease (ACAD) study at Penn Medicine and 15 other academic research centers across the United States and Canada.

11 Jul 2023

Natural language processing used to extract social determinants of health

Information on the nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes, known as social determinants of health, is often collected at medical appointments.

11 Jul 2023

As nonprofit hospitals reap big tax breaks, states scrutinize their required charity spending

The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity.

11 Jul 2023

Board games improve math skills in young children

Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last 23 years.

7 Jul 2023

Survey sabotage: careless and inattentive participants misrepresent COVID-19 cleaning habits

Surveys are the most common approaches for collecting data in public health.

7 Jul 2023

Patient aggression causes lasting harm to medical receptionists

University of Queensland research has found verbal and physical abuse of medical receptionists by patients is rife, and causing lasting harm.

6 Jul 2023

Serious monkey business: Chimpanzee heart check via digital camera

A world-first experiment to measure chimpanzee heart rates via a digital camera could help curb cardiovascular disease in great apes in captivity and provide valuable insights into how their brain develops from an early age.

5 Jul 2023

More states legalize sales of unpasteurized milk, despite public health warnings

Babe the goat is trendier than she looks. Babe lives a quiet life on a hillside farm in southern Iowa, where she grazes on grass with a small herd of fellow goats. Her owner, Stacy Wistock, milks her twice a day.

5 Jul 2023

Stroke Ready intervention shows promise in improving equity in stroke treatment

The use of thrombolysis, medications to break up blood clots, for acute ischemic stroke reduces post-stroke disability, but it is underutilized.

3 Jul 2023

Can the keto diet be used to treat migraines?

Dietary interventions, such as ketogenic therapy, show promise in reducing the frequency and severity of headaches, providing potential relief for individuals worldwide.

2 Jul 2023

DASH diet reduces uric acid levels

Researchers evaluate the effects of the ketogenic diet and DASH diet on serological uric acid levels.

2 Jul 2023

CognoSpeak: AI tool uses speech technology to quickly assess dementia risk

A new AI tool that could help doctors assess the early signs of dementia and Alzheimer's more quickly and efficiently, has been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

28 Jun 2023

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Fetal exposure to epilepsy medications does not affect neurodevelopment in children

AI and infection control: preventing infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics

Hearing aids may offer protection against cognitive decline in older adults at high risk of dementia

Empowering healthcare with AI: LungDiag NLP system transforms respiratory disease diagnosis

ChatGPT shows promise in addressing heart failure queries with accuracy and precision

AI-enhanced companion robots may help alleviate the loneliness epidemic in future

Emory, Georgia Tech researchers explore how AI can increase access to COVID-19 treatment

£1.5 million funding boost awarded for revolutionary test to improve early detection of Alzheimer's

$40.5 million NIA grant to fund study of Alzheimer's disease in Asian Americans and Asian Canadians

Natural language processing used to extract social determinants of health

As nonprofit hospitals reap big tax breaks, states scrutinize their required charity spending

Board games improve math skills in young children

Survey sabotage: careless and inattentive participants misrepresent COVID-19 cleaning habits

Patient aggression causes lasting harm to medical receptionists

Serious monkey business: Chimpanzee heart check via digital camera

More states legalize sales of unpasteurized milk, despite public health warnings

Stroke Ready intervention shows promise in improving equity in stroke treatment

Can the keto diet be used to treat migraines?

DASH diet reduces uric acid levels

CognoSpeak: AI tool uses speech technology to quickly assess dementia risk

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