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What is the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on semen parameters and sex hormones?

A new study aimed to systematically review studies investigating sex hormones and semen parameters in COVID-19 patients to provide a better understanding and treatment approach.

27 Sep 2022

Successful implementation strategy to scale-up PEWS for children with cancer

Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS)-;bedside tools used by nurses to assess the health of hospitalized children and identify urgent medical issues-; are not widely used in resource-limited hospitals, in part due to challenges with implementation.

26 Sep 2022

Embedded bias: How medical records sow discrimination

David Confer, a bicyclist and an audio technician, told his doctor he "used to be Ph.D. level" during a 2019 appointment in Washington, D.C. Confer, then 50, was speaking figuratively: He was experiencing brain fog — a symptom of his liver problems. But did his doctor take him seriously? Now, after his death, Confer's partner, Cate Cohen, doesn't think so.

26 Sep 2022

Deep brain stimulation as obsessive-compulsive disorder treatment

In a recent study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, researchers investigated the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) against treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

25 Sep 2022

The brain simultaneously processes linguistic and extralinguistic information, study finds

An international team of scientists from the UK, Spain, Denmark and Russia (including researchers from the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience) conducted an experiment demonstrating that people automatically integrate extralinguistic information into grammatical processing during verbal communication.

23 Sep 2022

AI-based drug screening process could speed up the development of life-saving medicines

Developing life-saving medicines can take billions of dollars and decades of time, but University of Central Florida researchers are aiming to speed up this process with a new artificial intelligence-based drug screening process they've developed.

22 Sep 2022

Study investigates three psychological processes that predict vaccine discourse incivility

Despite vaccine availability, vaccine hesitancy has inhibited public health officials' efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, which has killed more than 1 million people in the U.S. and nearly 6 million people worldwide.

22 Sep 2022

Artificial intelligence tools speed up the process of identifying people who inject drugs

An automated process that combines natural language processing and machine learning identified people who inject drugs (PWID) in electronic health records more quickly and accurately than current methods that rely on manual record reviews.

22 Sep 2022

Formula may be right for infants, but experts warn that toddlers don’t need it

Formulas for toddlers are a burgeoning business in the United States: Sales of the drinks more than doubled in recent years as companies convinced parents that their little ones needed the liquid boost.

21 Sep 2022

New insights on how infants learn about sounds in their native language

Infants can differentiate most sounds soon after birth, and by age 1, they become language-specific listeners.

20 Sep 2022

Texas, battling teen pregnancy, recasts sex education standards

J.R. Chester got pregnant the summer before her senior year of high school. A bright student with good grades, she gave birth, graduated, and was pregnant again when she arrived at college that fall.

20 Sep 2022

Pilot program intends to address inequities in accessing monkeypox vaccines

Today, local, state, and territorial health departments, as well as tribal governments and local non-governmental organizations, can partner together and begin submitting requests to access monkeypox vaccine through the recently announced Monkeypox Vaccine Equity Pilot Program.

19 Sep 2022

The maternal and perinatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by monkeypox infection

Researchers evaluated the perinatal and maternal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by infection with the monkeypox virus.

19 Sep 2022

Many refugees dealing with trauma face obstacles to mental health care

As a young boy living in what was then Zaire, Bertine Bahige remembers watching refugees flee from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 by crossing a river that forms the two Central African nations' border.

19 Sep 2022

Deep AI models fail to capture the configural nature of human shape perception

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) don't see objects the way humans do – using configural shape perception – and that could be dangerous in real-world AI applications, says Professor James Elder, co-author of a York University study published today.

16 Sep 2022

Study finds better academic outcomes among high school students with disabilities in inclusive settings

Indiana high school students with disabilities who spent 80% of their educational time in general education classrooms scored higher on state reading and math assessments and were better prepared for postsecondary education and employment opportunities than their peers in less inclusive settings, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers.

15 Sep 2022

UCLA professor wins NAM award for pioneering research and leadership in autism genetics

Dr. Daniel Geschwind, the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry at UCLA, was awarded the National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) 2022 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health in recognition of his pioneering research and leadership in autism genetics.

15 Sep 2022

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What is the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on semen parameters and sex hormones?

Successful implementation strategy to scale-up PEWS for children with cancer

Embedded bias: How medical records sow discrimination

Deep brain stimulation as obsessive-compulsive disorder treatment

The brain simultaneously processes linguistic and extralinguistic information, study finds

AI-based drug screening process could speed up the development of life-saving medicines

Study investigates three psychological processes that predict vaccine discourse incivility

Artificial intelligence tools speed up the process of identifying people who inject drugs

Formula may be right for infants, but experts warn that toddlers don’t need it

New insights on how infants learn about sounds in their native language

Texas, battling teen pregnancy, recasts sex education standards

Pilot program intends to address inequities in accessing monkeypox vaccines

The maternal and perinatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by monkeypox infection

Many refugees dealing with trauma face obstacles to mental health care

Deep AI models fail to capture the configural nature of human shape perception

Study finds better academic outcomes among high school students with disabilities in inclusive settings

UCLA professor wins NAM award for pioneering research and leadership in autism genetics

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