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Toshiyuki Tanimoto
For Toshiyuki Tanimoto's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2009
Eye association estimates cost of diseases
About 1.64 million people in Japan have visual impairments caused by glaucoma, diabetic retinopathia and other diseases, at an estimated cost to society of nearly ¥8.7 trillion, according to the Japan Ophthalmologists Association.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2007
Study looks at diabetes, cardiovascular links
Sanofi Aventis K.K. has begun a study on 6,000 people with diabetes in 13 countries who are using insulin to find out how to control blood-sugar levels as a way to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2007
A guffaw a day keeps the diabetes at bay
Developing diabetes and other lifestyle-related diseases is no joke, but university researchers have come up with a unique exercise that involves massaging the facial muscles through laughter to help relieve stress and prevent illness.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2006
Travelers urged to gird for infectious ills
Traveling overseas sometimes means the specter of infectious disease, such as the case of two Japanese men who died of rabies, one in November and the other in December, from separate dog bites in the Philippines.
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2006
Travelers urged to gird for infectious ills
Traveling overseas sometimes means the specter of infectious disease, such as the case of two Japanese men who died of rabies, one in November and the other in December, from separate dog bites in the Philippines.
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2006
Yamanashi dentists put I.D. tape on dentures in bid to confirm suicides
The Yamanashi Dental Association has for six years been pushing a program in which identification tape is attached to false teeth to make it easier to confirm who committed suicide in a local forest. The association began the project in February 2000 to identify bodies found in the dense Aokigahara forest at the foot of Mount Fuji, where many people commit suicide. The group felt that identification could be made more quickly if people had their names and prefecture codes attached to any false teeth they had.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2006
Hospitals adding hyperthermia to war on cancer
At least 60 medical institutions nationwide are adding hyperthermia to their treatments of cancer in combination with drugs and radiation, because the three-way approach has been effective in reducing and eradicating diseased cells.

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