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21-Nov-2024

Hear this! Transforming health care with speech-to-text technology #ASA187

Acoustical Society of America
Reports and Proceedings

Bożena Kostek from Gdańsk University of Technology is exploring how speech-to-text programs can be better used in the medical field. By studying how clear speech affects STT accuracy, she hopes to improve its usefulness for health care professionals. A detailed audio dataset was created with Polish medical terms spoken by doctors and specialists in areas like cardiology and pulmonology. This dataset was analyzed using an Automatic Speech Recognition model for transcription, and several metrics were used to evaluate the quality of the speech recognition.

Meeting: 187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

21-Nov-2024

Jeffrey Hubbell joins NYU Tandon to lead new university-wide health engineering initiative & expand the school’s bioengineering focus

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Business Announcement

Marking a bold step in its transformation into a global research powerhouse, NYU Tandon School of Engineering welcomes Jeffrey Hubbell, a world-renowned chemical engineer and member of four National Academies, to spearhead an ambitious agenda integrating engineering, the sciences, and medicine, to advance healthcare innovation.

21-Nov-2024

Short-term menopausal hormone therapy has no long-term cognitive impact

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Short-term menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) did not have long-term cognitive effects when given to women in early postmenopause, according to a study published November 21^st in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Carey Gleason from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Medicine

21-Nov-2024

Researchers identify previously unknown compound in drinking water

University of Arkansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers from the United States and Switzerland have reported the discovery of a previously unknown compound in chloraminated drinking water. Inorganic chloramines are commonly used to disinfect drinking water to safeguard public health from diseases like cholera and typhoid fever.

Journal: Science

21-Nov-2024

Hoarding by young people, older adults tackled by researcher

Mississippi State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Published research identifies the significance of early intervention in decreasing a young person’s likelihood of developing hoarding disorder later in life.

Journal: Journal of American College Health

21-Nov-2024

Study reveals how deadly brain tumor evades treatment; identifies potential new treatment strategy

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A UCLA study helps explain why glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer, becomes resistant to treatment, and introduces a new approach that paves the way for more personalized treatment strategies for patients with this deadly brain tumor.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Sheila and Stanford L. Kurland Family Foundation, National Brain Tumor Society, Uncle Kory Foundation, Ziering Family Foundation, The Bloomfield Foundation

21-Nov-2024

Scientists implicate a novel cellular protein in hepatitis A infection

University of North Carolina Health Care
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have long been trying to tease apart hepatitis A virus, to understand its inner workings and how it functions in the human body. Infectious disease researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that a little-known protein, PDGFA-associated protein 1 (PDAP1), is used as a pawn by hepatitis A virus to replicate and infect cells in the liver.

Journal: Science Advances