When she entered medicine in the mid-1980s, Masayo Takahashi chose ophthalmology as her specialty, she said, because she wanted to have a family and thought the discipline would spare her from sudden work calls in the middle of the night, helping her best balance work and life. Three decades later, ...
Yamamoto Chemical Industry Co., a major Japanese manufacturer of pharmaceutical chemicals, has shipped acetaminophen to drugmakers after mixing in Chinese-made ...
Four women have given birth to five children through an experimental in vitro fertilization treatment in which a mother’s own ...
When you have a health problem, there’s a story that only you — not your doctor or family — can tell. Hearing about the experiences of people with the same illness as yours — how they first noticed changes in their health, how they ...
The health ministry plans to allow prescribing some drugs to pregnant women even though manufacturers have advised against doing so, providing the safety of the pharmaceuticals has been confirmed, according to ministry sources. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is expected to start by ...
At the stroke of 1 p.m,, a group of Tokyo IT workers spring from their desks for a few minutes of rigorous bending, stretching and thrusting in repetition as a booming voice on the radio counts: “ichi, ni, san…” The suited staff are taking ...
Leading researcher says consumers and authorities should increase awareness of caffeine intoxication from tablets and energy drinks.
Radiation levels exceeding the government-set safety limit of 0.23 microsieverts per hour have been detected on the grounds of five schools in the city of Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, the prefectural board of education said Monday. Between late April and mid-May, the board officials detected ...
A research team says it has developed a snake-like robot that can climb over debris and rubble by shooting a jet of air to lift its front end from the ground. It is the first snake-shaped robot in the world that can move with ...
Japan, China and South Korea agreed Thursday to conduct a joint study to assess pollution and climate impacts in the Arctic, wrapping up their latest talks on how to develop the region, Japanese officials said. The agreement on joint scientific research and exploration comes ...
Japanese researchers have applied to have a new geological age based on ancient strata in Chiba Prefecture named “Chibanian.” The strata illustrate the Earth’s most recent switch in magnetic poles during a period from 126,000 to 770,000 years ago. The period has been proposed ...
Since Japan established universal health coverage in 1961, it has ceaselessly worked to expand its health care services, in the belief that providing more extensive coverage for a wide variety of patient needs will contribute to the well-being of its citizens. But an increasing ...
The ministry and the LDP still cannot agree on what kinds of establishments should be designated as exceptions to an indoor smoking ban.
A rock found in 1965 by a high school student in the city of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, has been confirmed to be a dinosaur egg fossil, according to the city and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. To date, eight types of dinosaur egg fossils ...
Assistance dogs are helping people with dementia live at home as the focus shifts from full-time caring to enabling patients to support themselves, according to a study presented at a recent international conference in Kyoto. Since the arrival of an assistance dog, a man ...
