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Justices block broad worker vaccine requirement, allow health worker mandate to proceed

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a key Biden administration covid-19 initiative — putting a stop, for now, to a rule requiring businesses with more than 100 workers to either mandate that employees be vaccinated against covid or wear masks and undergo weekly testing.

13 Jan 2022

Forecasting seasonal SARS-CoV-2 mutations

In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers have been trying to create a technique to predict which of these mutations will spread.

13 Jan 2022

rTMS may have the potential to improve memory function in Veterans with cognitive impairment

Current treatments for Alzheimer's disease are of limited effectiveness and do not halt the progression of the disease and associated cognitive decline.

12 Jan 2022

Male workers more likely to engage in deviant behavior in response to gender threats

When male workers believe their gender status is threatened, they are more likely than their female counterparts to engage in deviant behavior such as lying, cheating or stealing in the workplace, new research suggests.

12 Jan 2022

New study highlights COVID-19 vaccine inequities in California

As the pandemic stretches into its third year, people around the globe have benefitted from cutting-edge vaccines that have prevented infection with COVID-19 or mitigated its impact. Yet, vaccine access has not been distributed evenly across populations.

12 Jan 2022

Severity of menopause symptoms linked to a woman's cognitive performance

Menopause is often accompanied by an array of symptoms that can detract from a woman's quality of life. A new study suggests that the severity of some of those symptoms-; especially depression and sexual dysfunction-; were linked to a woman's cognitive performance.

12 Jan 2022

NAU bioengineer receives grant to improve the accuracy, fidelity of cardiovascular flow models

Accurately measuring blood flow is critical to the fundamental understanding of cardiovascular disease and clinical decision making. Although researchers have made great strides in computational and experimental blood flow modeling, reliable data is still difficult to generate in large quantities.

12 Jan 2022

Decoding imagined language to treat people suffering from aphasia

What if it were possible to decode the internal language of individuals deprived of the ability to express themselves? This is the objective of a team of neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University Hospitals of Geneva.

11 Jan 2022

Social distancing surveillance: how robots will keep you in line

Could a COVID-19 robot help in social distancing surveillance? We spoke to Professor Dinesh Manocha and Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy about how their new robot may be able to do just that.

10 Jan 2022

Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families

This time, it didn’t take much persuading for Mary Murphy to embrace home hospice. When her mother was dying from Alzheimer’s disease in 2020, she had been reluctant until she saw what a help it was. So when her husband, Willie, neared the end of his life, she embraced hospice again.

10 Jan 2022

Small cluster of neurons in the brain stem found to coordinate vocalization with breathing

The vocal sounds of humans-;laughing, crying, and the babbling of babies-;have the same rhythmic quality as the sounds made by many mammals, songbirds, and even some species of fish.

7 Jan 2022

A catch-22 trips up some in legal guardianship who try to regain independence

Ten years ago, Nicholas Clouse was riding shotgun in his friend's Camaro when the car jerked and he felt himself flying through the air. Clouse's head slammed against the passenger-side window.

7 Jan 2022

Dog brains can detect speech and show different activity patterns to many languages

Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain imaging study by researchers from the Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) finds.

6 Jan 2022

Neural connections of newborns with brain injuries impact childhood functional outcomes

A new UCSF study that mapped the neural connections of newborns with two different kinds of brain injuries found the maps looked very different-;and were linked to significantly different developmental outcomes years later.

6 Jan 2022

Study pinpoints brain networks behind speech planning

A new study has identified a brain circuit that is active while we plan our spoken replies during conversation.

5 Jan 2022

Understanding and overcoming the challenges of chemical synthesis at a global Contract Research Organisation

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Andrew Kennedy and Jono West from Sai Life Sciences, about the work they do and how they utilise Radleys equipment in order to understand and overcome chemical synthesis challenges.

From Radleys 5 Jan 2022

The brains of infants with autism do not tune in with motherese speech

Motherese is a form of simplified, exaggerated melodic speech that parents use to communicate with newborns and young toddlers.

3 Jan 2022

Early education books could play an integral role in solidifying gendered perceptions in children

A new study from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found children's books may perpetuate gender stereotypes.

24 Dec 2021

Cochlear implantation provides benefits for deaf children with autism spectrum disorder

Restoring hearing through cochlear implantation for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can help them understand spoken language and enhance social interactions, according to a study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

23 Dec 2021

How can we increase confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine?

In this interview, we speak to Professor Rishi Goyal and Professor Dennis Yi Tenen about their latest research that investigated COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

22 Dec 2021

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Justices block broad worker vaccine requirement, allow health worker mandate to proceed

Forecasting seasonal SARS-CoV-2 mutations

rTMS may have the potential to improve memory function in Veterans with cognitive impairment

Male workers more likely to engage in deviant behavior in response to gender threats

New study highlights COVID-19 vaccine inequities in California

Severity of menopause symptoms linked to a woman's cognitive performance

NAU bioengineer receives grant to improve the accuracy, fidelity of cardiovascular flow models

Decoding imagined language to treat people suffering from aphasia

Social distancing surveillance: how robots will keep you in line

Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families

Small cluster of neurons in the brain stem found to coordinate vocalization with breathing

A catch-22 trips up some in legal guardianship who try to regain independence

Dog brains can detect speech and show different activity patterns to many languages

Neural connections of newborns with brain injuries impact childhood functional outcomes

Study pinpoints brain networks behind speech planning

Understanding and overcoming the challenges of chemical synthesis at a global Contract Research Organisation

The brains of infants with autism do not tune in with motherese speech

Early education books could play an integral role in solidifying gendered perceptions in children

Cochlear implantation provides benefits for deaf children with autism spectrum disorder

How can we increase confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine?

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