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Voice biomarkers are a powerful tool in the world of healthcare and clinical research. When a person encounters a medical condition, different organs and parts of the body are impacted including the brain, lungs, heart, muscles, and vocal cords. The healthcare system...

The FDA recently approved Leqembi, a new drug by Eisai that has been shown in clinical studies to slow the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's Disease. This approval marks a major milestone in the fight against dementia, as Leqembi is the first drug ever to...

Measuring respiratory function is important. It’s used to inform COPD or asthma diagnosis, track disease progression, and help clinicians make ventilatory support decisions in diseases that impact respiration, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). These...

As the pandemic forces healthcare and pharmaceutical clinical trials to adopt new modes of engaging with patients, the value of digital biomarkers and digital diagnostics is skyrocketing. Speech analytics, in particular, has received significant attention because of...

Without question, one of the most challenging problems in neurodegenerative diseases is the ability to identify the presence of early brain changes, especially before clinical symptoms appear. This ability is key to developing and testing neuroprotective or even...

There are now over 7 billion people on planet earth and every time they speak, it says something about their health. At Aural Analytics, we have a mission to tap into this signal-rich data stream and make clinically-relevant insights available to the scientific...

Article by Todd J. Schwedt, M.D. The opinions expressed below are his own and are not official positions of the Mayo Clinic. For many of us who experience migraine, the symptoms are familiar. Before the pain begins, we notice warning signs - i.e. we become more...

John N. Caviness, M.D. Recently, I had the great pleasure of sitting down with neurologist and internationally recognized movement disorders specialist Dr. John Caviness to get his take on the use of vocal biomarkers in the early detection and progression of...

So, how can we rely on speech analytics as a window to brain health in disease when the way a person speaks is influenced by all sorts of mundane and benign other things? For example: You just woke up and your voice is creakyYou have a head cold and your speech sounds...