Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Applied Research Laboratory (APL) researchers have shown that cell phone images of rashes taken
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Musical training can improve attention and working memory in children: study
Neuroscientists have found new evidence that learning to play an instrument may be good for the brain. Musically trained children
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Early education gives East Asian and the Pacific children a strong head start
Young children in East Asia and the Pacific who attend preschool show better cognitive, language and socio-emotional development than those
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New tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis
Technology that helps to quickly extract and analyze genetic material could be used for cheap, accurate and mobile COVID-19 testing,
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Depression and anxiety 'tripled during height of lockdown'
The speed at which our lives and the world around us has changed this year has been hard to comprehend
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Mum-of-two suddenly wakes up with Tourette's symptoms and can't stop swearing
Mum-of-two Hayleigh-Elizabeth Honey, 27, had no underlying health problems – but one day she suddenly woke up with Tourette’s syndrome
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Woman with alopecia ditches her wigs and celebrates her bald head
A young woman who lost all her hair at 17 has abandoned her wig after bravely celebrating her baldness in
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Noninvasive sleep test may help diagnose and predict dementia in older adults
Dementia is a growing problem for people as they age, but it often goes undiagnosed. Now investigators at Massachusetts General
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Experts compare strategies for easing lockdown restrictions in Europe and Asia Pacific
Authors of a review of policies, based on the experiences of nine high-income countries and regions’ easing of lockdown measures,
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COVID-19 infected workers return to work faster using time and symptom-based protocols
One of the of the most important questions in managing a hospital’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is determining when
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