“Our Voice of Africa”: It Is Less Than Our Voice Without a Woman's Voice

CMAJ at 100: our voice, our future.

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, January 11, 2011, 183(1) 15 As society and health care have evolved, so too has CMAJ. Indeed, the journal is a reflection of the society in which it is firmly rooted. With its 100-year history and the many successes highlighted by CMA President Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, CMAJ is ready to move into its second century. CMAJ has sought to disse...

Children Without A Voice

How Voice Pitch Influences Our Choice of Leaders

Vocal signals among animals can carry different types of messages simultaneously. The croaking of a frog or the screech of a monkey conveys information about the animal making the sounds: its motivation, its ability to defend resources, its health, and even its genetic quality. Other animals have evolved to pay attention to this implicit information and adjust their own behavior accordingly, be...

Voice-enabled IT transformation: The new voice technologies

Voice technologies can enrich the ways in which people communicate and enable novel modes of collaboration, such as integrated voice-and text-based communication services, social and business networking facilities, and the evolving Internet technologies (collectively known as the Web 2.0 technologies). These new technologies can alleviate many problems in interpersonal communications, including...

Comparing the Voice Handicap Index Scores in Groups with Structural and Functional Voice Disorders

Objective: The effects of voice disorders vary from person to person. Occupation, work environment, life, and family reaction are variables that affect one’s perception of his/her own as an impaired voice. Voice Handicap Index (VHI) has not yet been used to compare the degree of voice disorders. Assuming that the quality of life may be different under a variety of voice disorders and that diffe...