Dedicated memory tests on smartphones enable the detection of "mild cognitive impairment," a condition that may indicate Alzheimer's disease, with high accuracy. Researchers from DZNE, the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg ...
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As COVID-19 infections spike around the globe, with no end in sight for months, questions are beginning to arise around the long-term effects of the pandemic on our mental health and brain health.
Nov 9, 2020
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More than a billion people around the globe need assistive technology to go about everyday tasks independently. A new artificial intelligence (AI) wheelchair is taking assistive technology a step further and giving people ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Modern medical science has made remarkable progress in the treatment of asthma. Inhalers containing steroids are particularly effective in preventing an asthma attack. But getting people to take these preventive medicines ...
Jun 22, 2022
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Artificial intelligence that could reduce the cost and speed-up the discovery of new medicines has been developed as part of a collaboration between researchers at the University of Sheffield and AstraZeneca.
Feb 3, 2023
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Many parts of rural America with less access to health care also have limited broadband internet that could help them take advantage of increasingly popular online health services.
Mar 24, 2023
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Infectious disease specialist Nesli Basgoz woke up before dawn one morning last month with a patient on her mind.
Jun 6, 2022
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Using data collected from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital explored the various communication patterns that adults age 65 and older reported having ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Claims by Susan Greenfield, a senior research fellow at Lincoln College Oxford, that intense use of the internet and computer games can harm the adolescent brain are not backed by current scientific evidence, warn experts ...
Aug 12, 2015
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A collaborative team of researchers from the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a framework that will help data scientists and other researchers use better digital health ...
May 18, 2020
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