Month: September 2023

Funding Uncertainty Looms for 988 Crisis Hotline Call Centers

Imagine you’re playing a game of telephone, where each person passes on a message. The game starts out strong, with an increase of 33% in calls to the new three-digit crisis hotline, 988. But the program’s financial future is like a shaky tower of blocks. The federal government provided $1 billion in funding from the […]

Published on September 7, 2023

J&J Drug Combo Stops Lung Cancer Spread for Longer

Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday its combination drug helped increase the duration of no progress in a type of non small-cell lung cancer in patients. The therapy met the main goals of the study that tested a combination of antibody treatment Rybrevant and experimental… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, […]

Published on September 6, 2023

Altered auditory processes pattern predicts cognitive decline in older adults: different modalities with aging

BackgroundCohort studies have shown that older adults with hearing impairment as assessed by self-report or behavioral measures are at higher risk of developing dementia many years later. A fine-grained examination of auditory processing holds promise for more effective screening of older adults at risk of cognitive decline. The auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) measure enables one […]

Published on September 6, 2023