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MEDICINE

Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 11, 2015
Consumers slow to embrace generic drugs
In May, the health ministry announced that it would set a new target for the use of generic pharmaceuticals. In 2013, 46.9 percent of the prescription drugs dispensed in Japan were generics, and at first the ministry said it wanted to raise this portion to 60 percent by 2017, but the Council on Economic...
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 10, 2015
Study links Prozac, Paxil use with birth defects
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 9, 2015
Progress reported in using gene therapy for deafness
Gene therapy for deafness is moving closer to reality, with new research on Wednesday showing the technique for fixing faulty DNA can improve responses in mice with genetic hearing loss.
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2015
Reining in prescription drug costs
The Abe administration must take steps to ensure generic drugs are as safe and effective as their brand name counterparts.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 1, 2015
Minor genetic changes turned Black Death germ from mild to murderous
The bacterium Yersinia pestis has inflicted almost unimaginable misery upon humankind over the centuries, killing an estimated 200 million or more people and triggering horrific plagues in the 6th and 14th centuries.
EDITORIALS
Jun 29, 2015
Guarding against MERS
Government officials and ordinary citizens alike must take sufficient precautions to ensure a MERS outbreak does not take place in Japan.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 29, 2015
Thailand's first MERS patient declared free of deadly virus
An Omani man who became Thailand's first case of Middle East respiratory syndrome has been declared free of the deadly virus, Thailand's health ministry said Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 26, 2015
Scientists crack gene secret that lets poppies make morphine
Scientists have identified a key gene used by poppies to make morphine, paving the way for better methods of producing the medically important drug, potentially without the need for cultivating poppy fields.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 19, 2015
Thailand took four days to confirm its first MERS case
Thai authorities took nearly four days to confirm the country's first case of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the health ministry said on Friday, a time lag likely to raise fears of a further spread of the deadly virus in Asia.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 18, 2015
New drug compound may beat malaria with single $1 dose
Scientists have discovered a new anti-malarial compound that could treat patients with a single $1 dose, including those with strains of the mosquito-borne disease that are resistant to current drugs.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 17, 2015
Device offers hope for early cancer detection, Japanese researchers say
Japanese scientists have developed a device that they say detects most kinds of cancer from a drop of blood in only three minutes.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 17, 2015
Eight new MERS cases in South Korea; 20th patient dies
South Korea on Wednesday reported eight new cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), while another person infected with the virus died, health officials said, bringing to 20 the number of fatalities in the outbreak that began last month.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 15, 2015
Schools reopen as South Korea seeks normality in MERS outbreak
Thousands of South Korean schools that were shut by worries over Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) reopened Monday as the country sought to return to normal, nearly four weeks into an outbreak that showed signs of slowing.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 14, 2015
Hospital at center of South Korea's MERS suspends services; seven new cases reported
A South Korean hospital suspended most services on Sunday after being identified as the epicenter of the spread of a deadly respiratory disease that has killed 14 people since being diagnosed in the country nearly four weeks ago.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 11, 2015
Former brain-eating tribe offers genetic clues to dementia and deadly diseases
Research involving a former brain-eating tribe from Papua New Guinea is helping scientists better understand mad cow disease and other so-called prion conditions and may also offer insights into Parkinson's and dementia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2015
China's big biotech bet starts to pay off
Years of pouring money into its laboratories, wooing scientists home from overseas and urging researchers to publish and patent is starting to give China a competitive edge in biotechnology, a strategic field it sees as ripe for "indigenous innovation."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 7, 2015
South Korea reports 14 more MERS cases and fifth death
South Korean health officials on Sunday reported 14 more cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome, bringing the total in the country's outbreak to 64, and said a fifth person infected with the virus had died.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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