Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Helping caregivers assist people with dementia in eating at home
For many people with dementia and the caregivers helping them live at home, mealtime is no picnic.
Feb 15, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers aim to create virtual speech therapist
Researchers are working to create a virtual speech therapist for patients who have lost their language skills due to a stroke or other head trauma.
Jul 30, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New tool for early detection of language disorders
The GADES tool was developed as a result of a research conducted by the group Telematic Systems for the Information and Knowledge Society of the Telecommunication School at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. This tool ...
Jul 12, 2013
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia. What is FTD?
Bruce Willis' family has announced that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Feb 17, 2023
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Pediatrics
Risk of developmental difficulties remains high among children born early
Children born preterm (before 37 weeks of pregnancy) remain at high risk of developmental difficulties that can affect their behaviour and ability to learn, finds a study published by The BMJ today.
Apr 29, 2021
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Pediatrics
COVID-19 added to the isolation among families facing autism
Parenting can be hard enough, but parenting a child with autism while in quarantine during a deadly global pandemic adds an untold amount of stress to those families' already stressful lives.
Oct 29, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Experts urge rapid evaluation for swallowing and voice problems after brain surgery
Johns Hopkins experts are recommending early post-surgical assessment—preferably within 24 hours—for trouble chewing and swallowing food, or speaking normally, among patients who have had benign tumors removed from the ...
Dec 3, 2012
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