Health
Late bedtime and lack of sleep lead to overweight children in China
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that Chinese children who go to bed later and sleep less are more likely to be more overweight.
Sep 6, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Culture shapes how we learn to reason?
If you made any plans for next week, congratulations! You've demonstrated a key feature of being human: being able to think beyond the here and now—or, think abstractly. But when babies learn different kinds of abstract ...
Jun 24, 2019
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Medical research
Single gene links susceptibility to rare infections with predisposition to autoimmune disease
The mutations were familiar, but the patients' conditions seemed baffling at first. A team lead by Rockefeller University researchers had linked variations in an immune gene to rare bacterial infections. Shortly afterward, ...
Oct 13, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
US, Chinese children differ in commitment to parents over time
According to a new study, American, but not Chinese, children's sense of responsibility to their parents tends to decline in the seventh and eighth grades, a trend that coincides with declines in their academic performance.
May 11, 2011
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Ophthalmology
Pandemic tie to vision issues seen in Chinese kids' study
Research suggests vision problems increased among Chinese schoolchildren during pandemic restrictions and online learning, and eye specialists think the same may have happened in U.S. kids.
Sep 16, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
OR models of hepatitis B prove decisive in treating millions in US, China
With hepatitis B infecting as many as 10% of people of Asian descent, operations researchers collaborated with a liver transplant surgeon to develop mathematical models that verified the cost effectiveness of hepatitis B ...
Jul 26, 2011
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Cultural factors affect Chinese Americans' health
Since 2011, the Population Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago (PINE), the most extensive epidemiological cohort study of Chinese older adults in the United States, has revealed critical health disparities among the growing ...
Aug 12, 2019
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Overweight & Obesity
Grandparents' affection piling on the pounds in Chinese children
New research published today has revealed that affection from grandparents towards their grandchildren may play a major role in contributing to the childhood obesity pandemic in China.
Jul 16, 2015
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Overweight & Obesity
Schools, parents and grandparents hold key to unlocking China's obesity problem
Educating parents and grandparents—as well as improving physical activity and the food provided at school—could hold the key to solving China's obesity pandemic, according to one of the largest trials of childhood obesity ...
Nov 26, 2019
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Genetics
Experimental gene therapy allows kids with inherited deafness to hear
Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear.
Jan 28, 2024
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