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If you are a person with darker skin should you be worried about the levels of oxygen in your blood a pulse oximeter is giving? Critical care expert Rohan Mathur at Johns Hopkins says past studies looking at this issue …
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Do the devices known as pulse oximeters, which measure the amount of oxygen in someone’s blood, underestimate or overestimate this value in people with darker skin? Controversy swirls with release of data from an FDA funded study that runs counter …
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Cognitive speed training using a computer to generate images and accelerate task completion was able to reduce the likelihood that an older person would receive an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis by 25%, a study by Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s expert Marilyn Albert …
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A novel study has shown that training the brain with cognitive speed training seems to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s disease expert and study author Marilyn Albert says that previous research simply compared what people who …
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If you were asked to learn a computer based task that would require an hour twice a week for six weeks, and it was something you would largely have to learn to master on your own, would you sign up? …
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