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But I hadn’t thought about Jefferson’s breezy assurance for decades when I stumbled recently across a fascinating experiment ...

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A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 ...

Health systems have a lot to gain from clinician education around effective communication with non-English-speaking patients. In 2013, more than 61 million people in the US reported speaking a ...

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Roughly 34 million children around the world are affected by some sort of hearing loss, including deafness. Deafness is a type of hearing loss that results in having very little to no functional ...