Kacey Oberlander is missing her dogs back home, and she’s more than a little stressed competing in the high-pressure environment at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. That’s where Holly comes in. The adorable, 4-year-old Havanese is available for petting and furry hugs. “It just ...
A therapy from the Netherlands that gives new visual and tactile experiences to people with learning disabilities is gaining popularity in Japan. Known as Snoezelen — a contraction of the Dutch verbs “snuffelen” (to seek out) and “doezelen” (to doze) — the therapy involves ...
In a quiet corner of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, a small group of elderly dementia patients accompanied by relatives and caregivers gathered in December in front of a work by French avant-garde painter Pierre Bonnard. Yoko Hayashi, representative director of ...
Many Japanese have a somewhat romanticized image of living in Britain. While for some those expectations may be fulfilled, the reality for others is that they struggle to adapt to a very different culture. Yuko Nippoda, a London-based counselor and psychotherapist, has been treating ...
A Japanese pharmaceutical firm will begin therapeutic testing of a drug it hopes will slow the decline in quality of life for some people with Down syndrome as they age. The firm said Monday it will begin trial tests of its Aricept donepezil hydrochloride ...
Standing in a room full of lined faces, Alan Yellowitz held up an orange drum shaped like a wineglass. “This one’s called a djembe,” he said. “It’s from Ghana.” The 30 or so people watching him had, combined, amassed hundreds of years of living, ...
A Japanese cancer specialist said Wednesday she has started the world’s first clinical trial of a powerful, nonsurgical, short-term radiation therapy for breast cancer. The National Institute of Radiological Sciences is experimenting with “heavy ion radiotherapy,” a technique in which a pinpoint beam can ...
