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Overweight and obesity thresholds may be misleading for Asian populations (p 157)
Internationally recognised body-mass index (BMI) cut-off points for overweight and obesity may not be appropriate for some Asian populations, conclude authors of an article in this week's issue of THE LANCET. A WHO expert consultation, chaired by Professor Shiriki Kumanyika from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA, discussed the... view more... (2004-01-07)
Shattering the myth of self-segregation
The myth of self-segregation by Asian communities - accused of keeping themselves apart and refusing to mix with other races and religions - has been shattered by researchers at Leeds. In one of the widest surveys of housing patterns amongst the Asian communities of Leeds and Bradford, Dr Deborah Phillips and her team found that, while there may... view more... (2002-12-05)
Parents just don't understand
Many parents like to meddle in their children's lives. view more (2009-11-06)
Health Training Day For Imams
Local Imams, mosque staff and community leaders around the UK recently attended a free training at the University of Bradford as part of a campaign to take health education to the heart of the Muslim community. The training, which was organised in conjunction with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Asian Quitline, was delivered in different... view more... (2002-11-26)
Ancient China's sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon rains
The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia. view more (2009-10-07)
Sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon
The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia. view more (2009-10-07)
Hepatitis B accounts for 40 percent of 'missing' Asian women
Hepatitis B is common in many Asian countries, particularly China, where some 10 to 15 percent of the population is infected. view more (2005-11-09)
Asian schoolchildren bullied by white children and other Asian children from
Asian schoolchildren in Britain are just as likely to be bullied by children from different ethnic groups as to be bullied by white children, according to a paper presented today, Monday 20 December at The British Psychological Society's London Conference, held at the Institute of Education, by Dr Mike Eslea of the University of Central Lancashire. view more (1999-12-16)
A new explanation of 'Asian paradox'
Although Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) has been classified as a class I (or definite) carcinogen by World Health Organization (WHO), the controversy as to why only a minority of infected patients develop gastric cancer still remains. view more (2009-10-29)
Tropical Atlantic cooling and African deforestation correlate to drought, report scientists
Against the backdrop of the Montreal Summit on global climate being held this week, an article on African droughts and monsoons, by a University of California, Santa Barbara scientist and others, which appears in the December issue of the journal Geology, underlines concern about the effects of global climate change. view more (2005-12-05)
Face recognition: nurture not nature
Reporting in the open-access journal PLoS ONE on August 20, researchers have discovered that our society can influence the way we recognise other people's faces. view more (2008-08-20)
Honeybee dance breaks down cultural barrier
Asian and European honeybees can learn to understand one another's dance languages despite having evolved different forms of communication, an international research team has shown for the first time. The findings are published this week in the journal PLoS ONE. view more (2008-06-04)
South Asians with diabetes more likely to lose their eyesight earlier than White Europeans
South Asians with type 2 diabetes are significantly more at risk of losing their eyesight and losing it at an earlier age, compared to White Europeans with the same condition. view more (2009-03-24)
Mini-Monsoon In The Mediterranean - Science article on the climate puzzle in the Near East
Our post-ice-age climate is not nearly as stable as is commonly believed. New evidence for this is reported by geoscientists of the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins in the upcoming issue of the journal Science. Investigating marine sediments from the northern Red Sea, they discovered that this currently very dry region was influenced by a long... view more... (2003-04-01)
South Asian people are under-represented in clinical trials
People of South Asian ethnic origin are underrepresented in clinical trials, finds a study in this week’s BMJ. view more (2003-06-04)
Differences in pregnancy risks and outcomes among immigrant groups to the US
Since the number of people of Hispanic and Asian origins has been increasing in the United States, it is important for healthcare workers to assess the risk factors associated with pregnancy outcomes in these ethnic groups. view more (2006-04-03)
Back to the future: Mastodon extends the time limit on DNA sequencing
In a new paper in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Michael Hofreiter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and colleagues from Switzerland and the United States, announce the sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of the mastodon (Mammut americanum), a recently extinct relative of the living... view more... (2007-07-24)
STUDY AIMS TO LEARN LESSONS IN SUPPORT FOR SMALL FIRMS
The two-year study, for which JETS has grant funding of £134,675 from the European Community, will evaluate the competitiveness of European SMEs as compared with their counterparts in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Enterprise benchmarking will be used to identify the nature of the technological differences in selected low, medium and high... view more... (1999-03-16)
Ethnicity plays a role in neonatal deaths
Researchers have uncovered ethnic differences in the risk of neonatal mortality and morbidity (disease) in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU). Of grave concern is the noted elevation in mortality rate in the NICU among infants of South Asian (East Indian) origin, which is over three times that of Caucasian infants. view more (2007-07-24)
Tone language is key to perfect pitch
Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sinatra and Hendrix - these and many other of the world's most famous musicians have had "perfect" or "absolute" pitch. view more (2009-05-20)
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