Background Cataract is the second leading cause of visual impairment and the first of
blindness globally. However, for the most populous country, China, much remains to be …

Background Glaucoma, the second leading cause of blindness, affects approximately 64.3
million individuals worldwide. In China, demographic ageing is in rapid progress. Yet …

Summary Background China has achieved Millennium Development Goal 4 to reduce under-
5 mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. In this study, we estimated the …

Using a newly assembled prefecture-city level dataset from 2004 to 2015, this paper
examines the impact of air pollution on child mortality in China. To identify the causal effect …

Background Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) affects as many as 100,000
infants each year in China. Therapeutic hypothermia reduces HIE related mortality and long …

Background Childhood mortality due to pneumonia is high. Chest radiography is the primary
imaging modality used for the evaluation of pneumonia in children. Lung ultrasonography …

Objectives To analyse trends in mortality and causes of death among children aged under 5
years in Beijing, China between 1992 and 2015 and to forecast under-5 mortality rates …

Abstract Background Globally, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine has
substantially reduced the burden of Hib invasive disease. However, China remains the only …

Introduction Millions of young rural children in China still suffer from poor health and
malnutrition, partly due to a lack of knowledge about optimal perinatal and child care among …

Fetal development and parturition are precisely regulated processes that involve continuous
crosstalk between the mother and the fetus. Our previous discovery that wild‐type mice …