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MEDICINE 4

WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 15, 2015
Chinese patients turn to black market for blood
China's rising demand for health care is exposing a chronic shortage of an essential commodity: blood.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 13, 2015
Farming of herbs, medicinal crops growing
Reflecting rising demand for herbal medicine, domestic cultivation of crops used to make such products is expanding.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / ADVANCES IN PROGRESS
Feb 9, 2015
3-D printers take center stage in Japan's regenerative medicine
As public expectations for regenerative medicine mount, scientists are turning to the vast potential of 3-D printing technologies in their quest to re-create skin, blood vessels, cartilage and other complex human tissue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 9, 2015
Growth concerns loom for Daiichi Sankyo on drug warning
Daiichi Sankyo Co. risks losing a slice of revenue to generic-medicine competition next year. Now, the drugmaker's plans to fill the gap have hit a roadblock and investors worry that growth may flounder.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 7, 2015
Measles outbreak spurs new action in California, New Mexico
Students at all 10 campuses of the University of California will be required to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella and other diseases under a new health plan set to take effect in 2017, the university said on Friday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 6, 2015
Hospital pioneers Magneto-style stem cell surgery
In a world first, a team at Hiroshima University Hospital on Friday conducted regenerative knee surgery using a technique that employs magnets to concentrate iron-laced stem cells around damaged cartilage, it said.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 6, 2015
Secret burials thwarting efforts to stamp out Ebola, U.N. says
Efforts to stamp out West Africa's Ebola epidemic are being thwarted by villagers touching and washing the infectious bodies of dead victims at secret burials and difficulty in tracing those exposed to the virus, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 5, 2015
Ebola cases on the rise for first time this year, WHO says
The number of new cases of Ebola rose in all three of West Africa's worst-hit countries last week, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, ending several weeks of encouraging declines across the region.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2015
Novartis Japan unit faces business suspension order
The health ministry will order a business suspension of around 15 days for a Japanese unit of Swiss pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG for not reporting serious side effects of its drugs, sources close to the matter said on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Jan 30, 2015
Safety concerns cloud promise of powerful new cancer drugs
A new wave of experimental cancer drugs that directly recruit the immune system's powerful T cells are proving to be immensely effective weapons against tumors, potentially transforming the $100 billion global market for drugs that fight the disease.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 24, 2015
Pediatricians urge measles vaccinations amid Disneyland-linked outbreak, movement against shots
The leading U.S. pediatrician group on Friday urged parents, schools and communities to vaccinate children against measles in the face of an outbreak that began at Disneyland in California in December and has spread to more than 50 people.
EDITORIALS
Jan 22, 2015
Warding off flu infections
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases says that Japan's influenza season this year is peaking about three weeks earlier than usual.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 19, 2015
Britain, Europe's TB hub, seeks to wipe out the disease
Health authorities launched an £11.5 million ($17.4 million) plan on Monday to tackle Britain's persistent tuberculosis problem, seeking to eradicate the contagious lung disease.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 17, 2015
Tavenner, who oversaw botched 'Obamacare' website launch, to quit
The Obama administration official who oversaw the botched rollout of the "Obamacare" website, Healthcare.gov, announced Friday she will resign as head of the agency that also manages the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2015
Laparoscopy death rate at Gunma hospital quadruple nationwide average
Laparoscopic surgery patients who have their livers removed at Gunma University Hospital are dying at quadruple the national average, three medical societies said in a recent report.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 9, 2015
IMF to provide new funds to help nations hit hardest by Ebola
The International Monetary Fund is preparing around $150 million in additional support to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the countries at the heart of the Ebola epidemic, the IMF's representative in Liberia said Thursday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 6, 2015
Stand-up desks get office workers on their feet
Advocates of workplace wellness initiatives are hoping 2015 will be the year that stand-up desks, historically favored by great minds from Leonardo da Vinci to Virginia Woolf, will reconfigure the modern cubicle.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 6, 2015
Cold weather can actually cause colds, study finds
Whether cold temperatures have anything to do with catching a cold has long been a question that supposedly separates believers in old wives' tales from the scientifically savvy. But while the cold-cold connection is widely considered a medical myth, a new study finds otherwise.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 5, 2015
Pediatrician advocates use of 'evidence-based medicine' in Japan
A Tokyo pediatrician is working to promote "evidence-based medicine" and ensure that medical treatments used in Japan are backed by the highest-quality international research.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 4, 2015
British nurse with Ebola in critical condition
A British nurse being treated for Ebola in London is in critical condition after deteriorating over the last two days, her hospital said on Saturday.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
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