Difficulty or inability to write a coherent text message, even in patients who have no problem speaking, may become a "vital" tool in diagnosing a type of crippling stroke, according to new research.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A woman's garbled text message to her son had an underlying message: She was having a stroke. Her ...

Harvard scientists are reporting that a case of so-called "dystextia" clued them in that a 25-year-old pregnant woman had suffered a stroke and was in need of urgent medical care. A healthy woman who ...

We’ve probably all chuckled at those funny examples of “autocorrect gone bad,” where a text someone sent to a family member causes embarrassment due to its unintended meaning. And we’ve surely all ...

A strange text message from a loved one usually means one of three things: He's the victim of autocorrect or a pocket-dial -- or you're the victim of a drunk-text. But evidence is beginning to build ...

Slow podcast/store downloads We are attempting to gather more data regarding slow downloading of podcasts and media from the iTunes store under iTunes 7.0.1. MacFixIt reader Gary Berkson writes: "I do ...

Hi I wonder if anyone has seen this before, and can offer s solution.<BR>Just the headers (not the main text) appear garbled in Safari like this:<BR> ...

A woman's garbled text message to her son had an underlying message: She was having a stroke. Her case, published last month in the journal BMJ Case Reports, is now the fourth reported incident in ...