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MEDICINE

JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 13, 2020
Gene abnormalities occur in iPS cell conversion process
Cancer-related genetic abnormalities have reportedly occurred during the process of transforming induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells supplied by Kyoto University into intended cell types at recipient research institutes.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 11, 2020
Man infected with mysterious virus in China dies after outbreak
A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in an outbreak of a yet to be identified virus while seven others are in critical condition, the Wuhan health authorities said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 9, 2020
Japanese entrepreneur's baby monitor puts prenatal care online
Japan prides itself on having the world's lowest birth mortality rates for women and infants, but a decline in facilities staffed with obstetricians and gynecologists, as well as the advancing age of first-time mothers here, has raised growing doubts about the future of that claim.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 7, 2020
New Mizuho investment fund targets life sciences startups
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. has established an investment fund for life sciences startups.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 6, 2020
Children's death toll at government hospital in north India rises amid nationwide outcry
Some 109 children have so far died at a government hospital in northern India since the beginning of December, said a hospital official on Sunday, even as local authorities scrambled to bring in additional staff and equipment amid a rising outcry over poor health care facilities in the country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 3, 2020
Drugmakers hike 2020 medicine prices despite lawmakers' ire
The ever increasing public outcry over the high price of medicines did little to stop drugmakers from raising prices again for 2020.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 2, 2020
Study finds Google system could improve breast cancer detection
A Google artificial intelligence system has proved as good as expert radiologists at predicting which women would develop breast cancer based on screening mammograms and also showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2019
Samoa ends six-week state of emergency over measles
The South Pacific island nation of Samoa has lifted a six week-state of emergency after the infection rate from a measles outbreak that has swept the country started to come under control.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 23, 2019
In legal first, unmarried Chinese woman sues hospital over refusal to freeze eggs
An unmarried Chinese woman filed a suit against a hospital on Monday for rejecting her request to undergo a medical procedure to freeze her eggs due to her marital status, in China's first legal challenge of a woman fighting for her reproductive rights.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 20, 2019
Attack on cancer: Japan's health ministry plans bid to analyze full genomes of 90,000 patients in three years
The health ministry on Friday revealed a plan to attempt to decode the full genomes of around 90,000 cancer and other patients in about three years.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 14, 2019
Japan's five-year cancer survival rate at 66.4%
The five-year survival rate for people diagnosed with cancer in 2010-2011 stood at 66.4 percent, up 0.3 percentage point from 2009-2010, the National Cancer Center said in a report Saturday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2019
Biogen builds case for its Alzheimer's drug, but skeptics say more data needed
Biogen Inc. laid out more data Thursday on its experimental Alzheimer's drug, raising no major safety alarms but also offering little compelling evidence that the drug, once declared a failure, actually works.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 6, 2019
WHO slams 'collective failure' as measles killed 140,000, mostly kids, in 2018
Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2019
Asahi Kasei to acquire U.S. drugmaker
Major chemical maker Asahi Kasei Corp. has said it will purchase Veloxis Pharmaceuticals Inc. of the U.S. by February.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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