Swallowing is a fundamental human function that supports nutrition and communication. Damage to swallowing muscles can reduce quality of life and even lead to aspiration pneumonia or malnutrition.

New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation. By Alan Blinder ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Huntsville Hospital offers a variety of services in physical, occupational, and speech therapies. Speech therapy focuses on treating speech, language, voice, and ...

Purpose The MD Anderson Oropharynx Cancer (MDA-OPC) cohort is a unique single-institution, prospective longitudinal cancer cohort. The cohort aims to enhance the therapeutic index of OPC management by ...

After struggling with persistent acid reflux and difficulty swallowing food for over a decade, a YouTuber finally received a diagnosis that changed his life. In a Sept. 28 YouTube video uploaded by ...

WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital is proud to announce that MacKenzee Watson, MS, CCC- SLP, has been honored with the Distinguished Early Career Professional (ECP) Certificate by the American Speech- ...

Dysphagia is a common neurologic deficit following ischemic stroke. As a result, patients often require percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement for safe maintenance of sufficient ...

A preclinical study led by the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai challenges the assumption that blocking the NCX1 protein, which regulates calcium levels in cells, is more effective than ...

"Given the significant potential for impaired quality of life and complications related to speech and swallow dysfunction in this population . . . it’s reasonable that language pathology examination ...

The rate of the number of young children who accidentally swallow nicotine pouches has soared in recent years, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found ...