Health
Why the fast and the furious need H2O
The demands of a big race can make some motorsports athletes go to water – and that's where The University of Queensland comes in.
Jun 11, 2015
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Immunology
Cooperation among viral variants helps hepatitis C survive immune system attacks
Warring armies use a variety of tactics as they struggle to gain the upper hand. Among their tricks is to attack with a decoy force that occupies the defenders while an unseen force launches a separate attack that the defenders ...
May 27, 2015
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Health
Can energy drinks improve the physical and mental performance of cyclists?
Consumption of energy drinks containing caffeine may have beneficial effects on exercise but probably not for mental function. The effects of pre-exercise caffeine consumption by trained cyclists on racing times and cognitive ...
Mar 11, 2013
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Pediatrics
Community-based study IDs prevalence of HTN in children
(HealthDay)—The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension is lower than previously reported in school-based cohorts, according to a large community-based study published online Jan. 28 in Pediatrics.
Jan 28, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Implicit race bias increases the differences in the neural representations of black and white faces
Racial stereotypes have been shown to have subtle and unintended consequences on how we treat members of different race groups. According to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for ...
Jan 17, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Taking race out of the equation in measuring women's risk of osteoporosis and fractures
(Medical Xpress)—For women of mixed racial or ethnic backgrounds, a new method for measuring bone health may improve the odds of correctly diagnosing their risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures, according to a UCLA-led ...
Oct 19, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
When they do not all look alike: Using identity to reduce own-race bias
People often remark that people of a different race "all look alike." However, when we have trouble recognizing people from another race, it may actually have little to do with the other person's race. Instead, new research ...
Sep 24, 2012
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Health
Pediatricians' pain-medication judgments affected by unconscious racial bias, study says
Pediatricians who show an unconscious preference for European Americans tend to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they do for African-American patients, new University of Washington research shows.
Mar 19, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Other-race effect': Clues to why 'they' all look alike
Northwestern University researchers have provided new biological evidence suggesting that the brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from one's own race than when memorizing a face from another race.
Jun 30, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Infants taught to maintain ability to distinguish between other-race groups
Exposing infants to facial pictures of different races can reduce difficulty in recognising and discriminating between other-race groups later in life, according to a University of Queensland study published today.
May 19, 2011
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