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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 25, 2014
Medical detective work is next phase in Ebola fight
Medical detective work will be the next big phase in the fight against Ebola when the United Nations deploys hundreds of health workers to identify chains of infection as the virus passes from person to person, top U.N. health workers said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 25, 2014
Ebola crisis could last through 2015, expert says
The Ebola crisis in West Africa, where the first victim died almost a year ago, is likely to last until the end of 2015, according to a scientist who helped to discover the virus.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 22, 2014
Cure sought in the blood of Ebola survivors
For months, Vanderbilt University researcher Dr. James Crowe has been desperately seeking access to the blood of U.S. Ebola survivors, hoping to extract the proteins that helped them overcome the deadly virus for use in new, potent drugs.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 18, 2014
Global population living six years longer than in 1990: study
Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 thanks to falling death rates from cancer and heart disease in rich countries and better survival in poor countries from diarrhoea, tuberculosis and malaria.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 18, 2014
Cuomo to ban fracking; health officials deem it unsafe
The New York state health department said fracking for natural gas can't be done safely, dooming prospects that Gov.Andrew Cuomo will end a six-year moratorium.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 18, 2014
Health teams scour Sierra Leone capital in Ebola drive
Health workers in Sierra Leone began combing the streets of Freetown for Ebola patients on Wednesday, moving house-to-house as the government launched a major operation to contain infections in West Africa's worst-hit country.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 12, 2014
Sierra Leone locks down new Ebola hotspot in the east
Authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a two-week lockdown in the eastern district of Kono after health workers uncovered a surge of Ebola infections in the area where the epidemic was thought to be largely under control.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 11, 2014
Healing tunes: What surgeons should and shouldn't play at work
Almost three quarters of surgeons' operating theaters have music playing when patients go under the knife, according to study in the Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 11, 2014
Scientists create 'feel fuller' food ingredient
British scientists have developed an ingredient that makes foods more filling, and say initial tests in overweight people showed that it helped prevent them from gaining more weight.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 11, 2014
Suicides rise among young as Indian society modernizes; mental health problems go untreated
Pinki Chauhan, a straight-A Indian physics and math student, arrived at her university campus shortly after breakfast, poured gasoline over her wispy frame and lit a match.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 8, 2014
23% of 'purified' water in China is polluted, tests show
Almost a quarter of purified drinking water tested by China's top safety watchdog was substandard, with many products found to contain excessive levels of bacteria, the official Shanghai Daily newspaper said on Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2014
Americans becoming fatter, sicker, poorer
The epidemic of fat in the United States is so great that more than one in five Americans is said to be too heavy to enlist in the armed services.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 5, 2014
Scientists find why male smokers may run even higher health risks
Male smokers are three times more likely than non-smoking men to lose their Y chromosomes, according to research that may explain why men develop and die from many cancers at disproportionate rates compared to women.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Dec 1, 2014
30 years after deadly disaster, Bhopal's toxic legacy lingers on in India
Beyond the iron gates of the derelict pesticide plant where one of the world's worst industrial disasters occurred, administrative buildings lie in ruins, vegetation overgrown and warehouses bolted.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 1, 2014
Plastic surgery in demand as more and more people snap selfies
Dental hygienist Jennifer Reynolds was always self-conscious about her looks, never took selfies and felt uncomfortable being tagged in photographs posted on social media.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 29, 2014
China reports new human case of H7N9 bird flu
China confirmed a new human infection of the deadly H7N9 avian influenza virus, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said, the first case this winter in the southern province of Guangdong.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2014
Delay of tax hike will hit elderly hardest: experts
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to postpone the second stage of the sales tax hike is likely to wreak havoc on health care provisions for the elderly.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 27, 2014
U.S. EPA seeks tighter ozone standards to cut pollution
The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed stricter curbs on ground-level ozone, a pollutant linked to several serious health conditions. Industry groups said the move would place a heavy burden on the U.S. economy.

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