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Traditional Chinese medicine gains increasing recognition in New Zealand

STORY: Traditional Chinese medicine gains increasing recognition in New Zealand SHOOTING TIME: April 21, 2024 DATELINE: April 23, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:42 LOCATION: Wellington CATEGORY: HEALTH/CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of performances 2. various of activities STORYLINE: Patting the armpit and the elbow crease, stretching and yawning, hundreds of New Zealanders immersed themselves in a series of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) activities in Christchurch, New Zealand on Sunday. Wang Lepeng, associate professor from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, explained to the audience why to do the pattings and knockings: "The liver likes you patting the armpit and stretching and yawning, and the heart likes knocking the elbow crease." Local resident Felicity Smith experienced acupuncture treatment, tui na massage therapy and some TCM exercises at the "Chinese Language plus Traditional Chinese Medicine" lecture and exhibition held at the central library of Christchurch, the largest city in New Zeal

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Fun science awards value curiosity, imagination

STORY: Fun science awards value curiosity, imagination DATELINE: Nov. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the award ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANDREW C. GALLUP, Polytechnic Institute at State University of New York 3. various of the award ceremony 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WU XIANGPING, Researcher, National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences STORYLINE: The spirit of curiosity and imagination prevails. Ten seemingly trivial findings or inventions related to serious scientific subjects won this year's Pineapple Science Award on Saturday in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The award is given to findings in fields such as psychology, physics and mathematics. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANDREW C. GALLUP, Polytechnic Institute at State University of New York "It is a great honor to receive the 2022 Pineapple Science Award in medicine for my research on the causes and consequences of yawning in animal groups. In general

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Xinhua Headlines: Monkeypox again exposes U.S. yawning racial gaps

(220911) -- NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Health care workers assist people waiting to be vaccinated at a monkeypox vaccination site in New York, the United States, on July 14, 2022. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: Monkeypox again exposes U.S. yawning racial gaps

(220911) -- NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People sanitize their hands at a monkeypox vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on July 30, 2022. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: Monkeypox again exposes U.S. yawning racial gaps

(220911) -- NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wait in line to receive monkeypox vaccine at a vaccination site at Eugene A. Obregon Park in Los Angeles, California, the United States, on Aug. 6, 2022. (Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: Monkeypox again exposes U.S. yawning racial gaps

(220911) -- NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A medical worker gives a dose of monkeypox vaccine to a recipient at a monkeypox vaccination site in Los Angeles, California, the United States, on Aug. 11, 2022. (Photo by Zeng Hui/Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: Monkeypox again exposes U.S. yawning racial gaps

(220911) -- NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Pedestrians walk past a monkeypox vaccination site in New York, the United States, on Sept. 6, 2022. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: Monkeypox again exposes U.S. yawning racial gaps

(220911) -- NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Doses of monkeypox vaccine are pictured in Chicago, the United States, on July 25, 2022. (Photo by Vincent Johnson/Xinhua)

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Monkeypox again exposes U.S. yawning racial gaps

STORY: Monkeypox again exposes U.S. yawning racial gaps DATELINE: Sept. 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:53 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of White House 2. various of people in the U.S. getting vaccinated 3. various of street views in U.S. cities STORYLINE: As was the case with COVID-19, Black and Hispanic Americans are bearing a disproportionate burden of monkeypox cases, which have surpassed 20,000 in the U.S. -- the most reported infections of any country. There are signs that the rise in the number of infections in the country is slowing but racial divides are worsening in monkeypox cases and vaccine access. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 38 percent of monkeypox cases are among Black people, which represents only 13.6 percent of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, Hispanic or Latino people accounted for 28.3 percent of total monkeypox cases as of Sept. 3, in comparison with its share of nearly 19 percent in the U.S. population. B

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The beach in Jurata, famous Baltic sea resort

Poland, Jurata 16.08.2015. People on the beach in the famous luxury resort on the Hel peninsula. Photo CTK/Grzegorz Klatka.

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Scientists find yawning contagious in chimpanzees as in humans

TOKYO, Japan - A female chimpanzee named Ai, aged 27, watches video scenes of other chimps yawning (top photo), and then yawns herself (bottom photo). A research group led by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, a professor at the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University, reported that chimpanzees watching video scenes of other chimps yawning yawned more often in response, showing that contagious behavior happens among primates other than humans. Photo was provided by Matsuzawa. (Kyodo)