Do celebrities help sell new medicines?
...h, Camilla Parker Bowles made her first big public speech on behalf of the National Osteoporosis Society to raise awareness of the bone condition. In this weeks BMJ, journalist Ray Moynihan suggests that by spreading the word about osteoporosis, she is inadvertently helping to expand markets for new medicin...Lonely people face higher risk of heart disease
...hmetic and one task involving writing and giving a speech to defend themselves against a false accusation of stealing. Blood pressure before and during these stress-inducing tasks rose similarly for both the lonely and non-lonely students. However, lonely students had significantly higher vascular resistanc...Study: ER docs can give stroke clot-busters safely, but patients need to get to ER faster
...of the body Difficulty producing speech, getting speech out, or understanding what others say Disruption of vision, loss of vision in one eye or sudden double vision Sudden onset of dizziness, usually accompanied by other symptoms Sudden, unexpected headache Risk factors for stroke: Family history...Multimillion-dollar grant to fund more research into speech disorder
...er. And, according to Ehud Yairi, UI professor of speech and hearing science and director of the Stuttering...r, most children about 75 percent develop normal speech fluency within about four years of stuttering onset. That alters the traditional model, he said, wh...Audiovisual recording of oral consent for illiterate populations (p 1406)
...t of whom are illiterate, and who communicate with speech based on an ancient oral tradition. Using ADOC procedures after translation from Spanish to Guarani, the investigators obtained consent from 42 of about 100 potential participants. The procedure allowed more than half the potential participants to ex...Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy (TM) more effective in epilepsy patients when used earlier
...res ranges from finger twitching to unrecognizable speech to convulsions and unconsciousness. Available treatments, either drugs or surgery, control seizures in 70 to 80 percent of cases, but for the more than 600,000 American who have refractory epilepsy, seizure control remains elusive and continues to h...Reducing antiepileptics in VNS (TM) patients does not impair seizure control
...res ranges from finger twitching to unrecognizable speech to convulsions and unconsciousness. Currently, available treatments, either drugs or surgery, control seizures in 70 to 80 percent of cases, but for more than 600,000 American have refractory epilepsy, in which such treatments are ineffective. Abou...Calcium channel gene may play a role in severity of neurodegenerative brain disease
...d a loss of coordination in the hands, arms, legs, speech and eye movements. Usually SCA2 occurs in adulthood, but it can also occur in childhood or very late in life despite identical gene mutations. In either situation, SCA2 is caused by a gene mutation made up of very long repeats of three chemical bas...Brain undergoes gains and losses in cognitive abilities during adolescence
...ime we lose some ability to acquire new sounds and speech patterns. In this regard, adults are more limited than children. Researchers at studied the post-mortem cerebral cortexes of six 12- to 17-year-olds and five 17- to 24-year-olds. All of the individuals had been of normal health and intelligence...New study says people take mental stress to heart
...rmalities in the hearts pumping ability during the speech test in 20 percent of patients. Patients with abn...Patients with wall motion abnormalities during the speech test had a 2.8 times higher death rate than those without abnormalities. All of the 17 deaths were ...Researchers find correlation between older adults' use of speech and the ability to gesture
... The researchers wished to learn if the amount of speech normal elderly subjects generated when asked to pa...uble generating the correct response may have used speech either as a substitute response or as a means of activating gestures," said Barrett. Barrett said b...Researchers question conventional wisdom on 'mini-strokes'
...e brain is affected. In addition, the deficits in speech and motor ability that were observed sometimes reflected that large areas of the brain were involved. However, because they were TIAs, the events left no permanent disability. So, they began looking for possible differences in the causes of TIAs an...Public schools may face shortage of speech-language pathologists
...sts provide to the growing number of students with speech and language disorders in the schools," Fraher sai...ge pathologists speak Spanish, she said. Resolving speech and hearing problems can be difficult enough without adding a language barrier. "Children in our sch...UCSF begins clinical trials for new bionic ear for profoundly deaf adults
...l trials involve the use of new ways of processing speech designed to produce clear and recognizable speech using electrical currents to excite hearing nerve fibers and send the sound information from the out...Double-drug therapy may benefit some multiple sclerosis patients
... or paralysis of limbs, numbness, vision problems, speech difficulties, problems with walking or motor skills, bladder problems, and sexual dysfunction. Relapsing-remitting MS, the most common form of the disease, is characterized by attacks interspersed with stable periods. About 75 percent of peo...License agreement signed to commercialize intelligent hearing aid
...ysiology, electrical and computer engineering, and speech and hearing science contributed to the work. "Tod...icient algorithm capable of extracting the desired speech signal in the presence of multiple interfering sounds. Using the algorithm, they built a prototype ...Deaf children who get cochlear implants earliest get the biggest language boost, large study finds
... awakens their hearing, the better they will do on speech recognition tests later in life, according to the ...aring aids. "We found a significant difference in speech recognition between those who got their implants between the ages of two and four years, during the ...Researchers image language recovery after stroke
...c stroke. Often, patients experience problems with speech and language, particularly after a stroke to the l...welve months. Although physical, occupational and speech therapies play key roles in recovery, scientists do not yet understand how the brain recovers and ho...Common hearing test for newborns may be wrong up to a third of the time
...ars have a much harder time acquiring language and speech skills. But those who get hearing aids or cochlear implants early because of an in-hospital test or an alert pediatrician can often progress normally. As a result, a 1993 National Institutes of Health report and a 1995 joint commission endorsed unive...Brain imaging technology can reveal what a person is thinking about
...re suffering from an injury or disorder that makes speech impossible. "We may someday be able to get a glimpse of what a patient is able to comprehend, even when that person can't answer questions directly. We could show them pictures of faces and places and, using fMRI technology, see whether their visua...