Researchers believe they may have discovered a possible cause of a mystery condition that can leave sufferers suddenly unable to walk, talk or see.
Mar 15, 2021
0
29
Everyone's familiar with the sensation of being trapped in a conversation for too long—be that over the garden fence or by the office water cooler. On the other end of the spectrum, we've also experienced conversations ...
Mar 2, 2021
0
5
Spinal cord injury (SCI) often causes disability and seriously compromises quality of life. While decades of research have made significant progress in axonal regeneration after SCI, most of the interventions have not been ...
Dec 17, 2020
0
3
Whether in the workplace or our personal lives, most people have a strong preference for balanced conversations, where each person is able to "get their two cents in." In fact, new research published in Language and Speech ...
Dec 1, 2020
0
10
University of Michigan researchers say employing a conversational assistant—think 'Hey, Siri,' or perhaps something less global like an "Ask the Doc"—could be one way to narrow the gap in health disparities impacting ...
Dec 1, 2020
0
2
Isolated, lonely and fearful, many older Americans living in long-term care facilities have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic—especially when in-person visits from loved ones are not allowed.
Nov 23, 2020
0
0
In homes across the U.S., families increasingly know someone who has been sick or hospitalized with COVID-19. The death toll passed a quarter-million Americans on Nov. 18, less than 10 months into the pandemic.
Nov 19, 2020
0
1
Exposure to suboptimal doses of the antiparasitic drug artemisinin could increase the sexual conversion rate of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, thereby increasing the probability of transmission, according to ...
Oct 28, 2020
0
4
An electronic nudge to clinicians—triggered by an algorithm that used machine learning methods to flag patients with cancer who would most benefit from a conversation around end-of-life goals—tripled the rate of those ...
Oct 16, 2020
0
24
Have you been struggling to get a good night's sleep lately? Or did you take your daily medication this morning? If so, have you shared the details with your parents or adult children?
Oct 1, 2020
0
7
