UC Riverside School of Medicine to serve as lead site for clinical trial on stuttering
(University of California - Riverside) The School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, will serve as lead site for a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating ecopipam, an investigational first-in-class drug being tested for the treatment of stuttering in adults and Tourette syndrome in pediatric patients. Emalex Biosciences Inc. is conducting the clinical trial. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
NH Boy With Stutter Sees President-Elect Joe Biden As Role Model
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Elections Politics Syndicated CBSN Boston Syndicated Local Brayden Harrington Joe Biden Source Type: news
The Challenges of Remote Learning for Children Who Stutter
Feeling put on the spot on a video screen when you can ’t get words out can be intimidating. Experts offer advice. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jenny Marder Tags: Stuttering Children and Childhood Voice and Speech Education (K-12) Content Type: Service E-Learning Harrington, Brayden Source Type: news
Masks Make Talking Even Tougher for People Who Stutter
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9, 2020 -- Face masks may be invaluable in the fight against COVID-19, but they can make it difficult for people who stutter to communicate with others.
About 3 million people in the United States stutter, according to the American... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Masks Make Talking Even Tougher for People Who Stutter
Title: Masks Make Talking Even Tougher for People Who StutterCategory: Health NewsCreated: 9/9/2020 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 9/9/2020 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - September 9, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
The New Neuroscience of Stuttering The New Neuroscience of Stuttering
After centuries of misunderstanding, research has finally tied the speech disorder to certain genes and brain alterations ― and new treatments may be on the horizon.Knowable Magazine (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - September 5, 2020 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Teen's Democratic Convention Speech Brings Awareness to Stuttering
FRIDAY, Aug. 28, 2020 -- On the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, the world heard from an improbable source -- a 13-year-old named Brayden Harrington.
Brayden was invited to speak because he has a frustrating and misunderstood... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Teen's Democratic Convention Speech Brings Awareness to Stuttering
Title: Teen ' s Democratic Convention Speech Brings Awareness to StutteringCategory: Health NewsCreated: 8/28/2020 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 8/28/2020 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - August 28, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Stuttering 101: A biological condition no one should make fun of
What is stuttering and why do some people, such as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, have the condition? Here's a primer on a medical condition no one should be laughing at. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - August 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What to Know About Stuttering
The speech disorder can play havoc with sociability, relationships, even identity, but there are ways to handle it. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - August 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Benedict Carey Tags: Stuttering Anxiety and Stress Presidential Election of 2020 Voice and Speech Brain Therapy and Rehabilitation Democratic National Convention your-feed-health your-feed-science Brayden Harrington Source Type: news
To Understand the ”Other”: How Disabilities Define Us
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 21 2020 (IPS)
You can shine your shoes and wear a suit
you can comb your hair and look quite cute
you can hide your face behind a smile
one thing you can’t hide
is when you’re crippled inside. John Lennon
COVID-19 made some of us aware of how dependent we are on one another, this is why so many of us become upset when confronted with the reckless beha...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Arts Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Annie Glenn, Champion of Those With Speech Disorders, Dies at 100
Being an astronaut ’s wife thrust her into the spotlight, but a stutter left her struggling for words until she found help. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Neil Genzlinger Tags: Stuttering Deaths (Obituaries) Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Glenn, John Herschel Jr Glenn, Annie Source Type: news
Annie Glenn, Famed Astronaut ’s Widow, Dies of Coronavirus Complications at Age 100
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Annie Glenn, wife of the late astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn who overcame a childhood stutter to become an advocate for others with speech disorders, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19. She was 100.
Glenn died at a nursing home near St. Paul, Minnesota, where she’d moved in recent years to be near her daughter, said Hank Wilson, a spokesman for the Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine also announced Glenn’s death, the latest among centenarians succumbing rapidly to the new coronavirus.
John Glenn died in 2016 follo...
Source: TIME: Science - May 19, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Julie Carr Smyth / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 News Desk remembrance wire Source Type: news
UN issues appeal to bolster COVID-19 ‘logistics backbone’, warns global response could stutter to a halt
The heads of major UN humanitarian agencies and offices have launched an urgent appeal for $350 million to support global aid hubs to help those most at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Stuttering DNA orchestrates the start of the mosquito's life
(Radboud University Medical Center) There are large parts of the DNA that are not used for making proteins. This is called 'junk DNA', because its function remained unclear for a long time. However, a certain type of junk DNA that is found in mosquitoes and which repeats itself dozens of times, known as 'satellite DNA', has now been shown to play an essential role in the early development of mosquito embryos. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 9, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
