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 ...

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.

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 ...

You probably get text messages often with misspellings and abbreviations. But doctors say mistakes in texting sometimes suggest a problem more serious than bad grammar. It’s called dystextia, and it ...

DETROIT – 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 ...