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China-wide study will boost understanding of fatal surgical complication

China-wide study will boost understanding of fatal surgical complication
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Older patients in hospitals across China took part in a major multi-centre open-label randomised clinical trial that showed there was no difference in post-operative delirium in older people with a hip fracture.
Date:
21/12/2021

Birmingham scientists link with hospital partners in China on data science health project

Birmingham scientists link with hospital partners in China on data science health project
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Data science experts today signed an agreement to join forces with one of China's best hospitals to gather, organise and analyse patient information under related laws and regulations from both countries.
Date:
24/05/2018

Researchers find physical exercise reduces risk of developing diabetes

Researchers find physical exercise reduces risk of developing diabetes
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Exercising more reduces the risk of diabetes and could see seven million fewer diabetic patients across mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to new research.
Date:
23/02/2018

Birmingham - Beijing energy partnership wins Chinese funding for joint research programme

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Energy storage experts at the University of Birmingham and the University of Science & Technology Beijing (USTB) have won a major funding award from the Chinese government for a joint doctoral research programme.
Date:
22/02/2017

Chinese city migrant children buck obesity trend

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Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that the children of migrants to Chinese cities have lower rates of obesity than youngsters in more affluent established urban families.
Date:
22/07/2016

Birmingham water experts help China clean sewage treatment

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Experts at the University of Birmingham have developed a unique device that could help to make wastewater treatment plants in China run more effectively – cutting costs and emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases.
Date:
17/05/2016

Musical Fusion recital

Musical Fusion recital
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The China Institute recently hosted a unique musical fusion event mixing traditional Eastern and Western styles.
Date:
22/10/2015

The China Institute and the Shakespeare Institute

The China Institute and the Shakespeare Institute
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Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies has written a blog about the Shakespeare Institutes work with the China Institute.
Date:
22/10/2015

Educating China's elderly to fight obesity in the young

Educating China's elderly to fight obesity in the young
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Academics from the University of Birmingham, UK are engaging with grandparents in China, to help tackle the increasing problem of obesity amongst Chinese children in a trailblazing public health programme.
Date:
26/03/2015

Engineered cells could help tackle the third most common cancer in Chinese males

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Researchers at the University of Birmingham believe that a new method of genetically engineering immune cells could lead to improved treatment of Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients.
Date:
10/03/2015
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