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Want to know if your spouse is cheating?  Forget the lipstick on the collar or the cologne in her hair.  Now researchers say it's all in the  voice . According to newswise.com, our voices give us away every time, and the Web site cites new research by   Albright College associate professor of psychology Susan Hughes, Ph.D., who has found that "men and women alter their voices when speaking to lovers versus friends and that such variations can potentially be used to detect infidelity." “It’s not just that we change the sound of our voice, but that others can easily perceive those changes,” newswise.com quotes Hughes, an expert in evolutionary psychology and voice perception, who wrote about this in a new article, “People Will Know We Are in Love: Evidence of Differences Between Vocal Samples Directed Toward Lovers and Friends.” The study looked at how individuals alter their voices, or engage in voice modulation, when speaking to romantic partners versus same-se...

Would you be more likely to go to a therapist if you could do it over the phone?  I'm not talking about dial-a-shrink, but an actual appointment you had every week for an hour, just not in person but over the phone? "Teletherapy's" been around for a while.  I remember writing about it last year when it came to prisons (and really helped), but it's taken a while to get into the mainstream.  (I also remember reporting on all the dot coms who thought therapy could be done online, with patients -- or "clients," as they're now called -- posting questions and a specific therapist answering.  We saw how well that worked out!) But teletherapy is gaining new ground, according to Audrey Quinn at smartplanet.com, and one therapist has even partnered with 50 other therapists in a variety of fields and she will soon bring that number up to 100 to do this very thing. TalkSession was recently chosen by GE Ventures and Startup Health Academy to participate i...

A while back I wrote about a new device that could diagnose Parkinson's over the phone just  by the spaces you left between your words while you talked, http://www.healthtechzone.com/topics/healthcare/articles/2012/07/23/300055-want-beat-alzheimers-walk.htm.  Now your cellphone may be able to tell the health of your lungs.  If you're an asthmatic, or suffer from bronchitis or COPD, this could be a lifesaver.  And even if you're not, why not just check and see?  Doesn't cost anything, doesn't hurt, and maybe this is the face of health for the future. http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/test-your-lung-health-by-breathing-at-your-cell-phone/10195?tag=nl.e660&s_cid=e660