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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 10-Sep-2025 02:11 ET (10-Sep-2025 06:11 GMT/UTC)

13-Jun-2025

Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are driving the increase in us excess mortality—and adults without college degrees are bearing most of the burden

Boston University School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For both men and women without a Bachelor’s degree (BA), a new study in JAMA Health Forum found that mortality between 2011-2023 was markedly higher than would have been expected had death rates from 2006-2010 continued. Among 564,855 excess deaths in 2023 alone, 481,211 occurred among people without a BA—a 26 percent increase in mortality among this population, compared to pre-2010 trends. In contrast, mortality only increased by eight percent among people who received a BA.

Journal: JAMA Health Forum
Funder: W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

13-Jun-2025

BGI Genomics successfully concludes first Southeast Asia training workshop

BGI Genomics
Meeting Announcement

BGI Genomics has successfully wrapped up its inaugural Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) Interpretation of Genetic Diseases Training Workshop for Southeast Asia, marking a significant milestone in international genomics education.

Held at the BGI Center in late May, the workshop brought together emerging healthcare professionals and researchers from Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam for a week of intensive, hands-on learning.

13-Jun-2025

Study provides novel insights into dialogue-based teaching intervention in Chinese classrooms

ECNU Review of Education
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dialogic pedagogy has been highly valued and promoted in classrooms globally over the past few decades. However, there persists a stereotype that view Chinese classrooms as authoritative and full of rote learning. A new study has systematically reviewed several dialogue-based teaching interventions implemented in Chinese elementary and secondary schools. This review suggests that these interventions were mostly integrated with school subject fields and exert both cognitive and noncognitive effects on Chinese students

Journal: ECNU Review of Education

12-Jun-2025

Study shows ways to tackle homophobic bullying in schools

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Based on individual interviews with adolescents and focus group discussions, researchers from São Paulo State University have created a classification of the coping strategies used by young people in situations of school bullying. The study also provides recommendations for educational institutions.

Journal: Journal of School Violence
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

12-Jun-2025

Playing to learn? It works, but it has its limits

Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

A new ESPOL study reveals that turning learning into a game can improve grades in STEM subjects, but it doesn't necessarily motivate students more. The research was based on the theory of Gamified Learning and was applied to 175 engineering students. One group was implemented with a weekly leaderboard system (like video game rankings), and the other was not

Journal: International Journal of STEM Education

12-Jun-2025

Impact of education and social factors in RMD

European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)
Reports and Proceedings

Improved understanding of social determinants of health

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EULAR – The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology – acknowledges the impact of socioeconomic factors on the persistence of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD), and the society’s manifesto includes tackling lifestyle determinants, promoting active ageing, and developing RMD education and communication programmes.¹ Health literacy has also been flagged as central to the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases – including RMD – by the World Health Organization.²

12-Jun-2025

Towards decoding the nature of word recognition

Waseda University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Reading a word involves complex interactions between spelling, meaning, and sound. Researchers from Japan and Canada explore the detailed role of orthographic-semantic consistency—how meaningfully related a word is to its spelling neighbors—in word recognition. By analyzing large datasets and conducting behavioral experiments, the team showed that morphologically-related addition neighbors (e.g., “CREAMY” for “CREAM”) facilitate recognition, while unrelated ones inhibit it. Their findings offer new insights into the cognitive architecture of word recognition.

Journal: Journal of Memory and Language