Suppose you are at a station and happen to see someone passing out after a heart attack. A crowd of worried onlookers gathers. Somebody shouts, "Call an ambulance!" What should you do next? Tokyo-based social venture Coaido is launching an iPhone app that helps bystanders assist as effectively as possible in the ...
About 10 million adults in Japan are strongly suspected of having diabetes, a 2016 survey by the health ministry showed ...
In the most recent study of its kind, the National Cancer Center said Wednesday that new cancer diagnoses in Japan ...
Researchers in Japan successfully created mouse egg cells from stem cells by adding vitamin A and protein, making progress toward technology that may be useful in human fertility treatment, a study published in a European science journal showed Tuesday. So far, egg cells, or eggs ...
A group of four scientists, including two from Japan, won the spoof Ig Nobel biology prize on Thursday for their discovery of insects with genitalia that reverse the traditional sex roles. The recipients include Kazunori Yoshizawa, associate professor at Hokkaido University, and Yoshitaka Kamimura, associate ...
Takeshi Imazu's daily tasks are far from what a typical prefectural official handles. For more than half of the week, he goes out to the Inbanuma marsh of Chiba Prefecture either to capture or study snapping turtles, a freshwater species that threatens local biodiversity. Snapping turtles, ...
At least 336 people nationwide suffered hearing loss in 2015 and 2016 as a result of complications after they contracted the mumps, a survey shows.
For managers employing workers with mental disorders, it is vital to detect early signs of changes in their emotional and physical well-being and take action before the symptoms become prominent. A software program developed by a small website design company in Osaka is intended to ...
A team of Japanese researchers has developed what could be the world's first method to diagnose Alzheimer's disease from blood. Although the method is not currently able to provide a definitive diagnosis, it can be used in health checkups for people aged 60 or over, ...
The findings could lead to the development of drugs to treat Down syndrome and other conditions, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
A Japanese research team said Monday it has confirmed that yellow dust increases the risk of acute myocardial infarction. The risk was 1.46 times higher than normal on the next days of the arrivals of yellow sand, according to the team, including Sunao Kojima of ...
The health ministry will enhance monitoring of online advertisements for therapies using blood taken from umbilical cords and placentas in the wake of recent arrests over unauthorized practices, sources said. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will instruct the Japan Consumers' Association to step ...
Taipei Zoo has said it has successfully bred yet another species of poison dart frog, with expertise from a Japanese zoo, and expects the first batch of hatched tadpoles to transform into froglets in the coming days. Tai Wei-yu, a section chief of the zoo's ...
Ryuta Idogawa traces the onset of his battle with mental illness to a moment not long after his parents had been relocated to Saitama from their hometown of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, in the spring of 2011.
Japanese researchers successfully engineered cells to relieve Parkinson’s symptoms in clinical trials, taking a step closer to a potential cure.
