Health ministry urges smoking ban for restaurants, other indoor spaces
A health ministry panel on Wednesday called for a ban on smoking indoors in public spaces, including restaurants. In a report, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry linked passive smoking to a range of deadly diseases, saying designated smoking spaces only harbor the problem rather ...
Tsukuba team uncovers asthma-intestine mechanism
A team of researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture has found a mechanism in which bad bacteria within mice intestines exacerbates asthma, fueling hope it can lead to a treatment for asthma in humans. The team, headed by Akira Shibuya, a professor ...
Allergy researchers target nighttime 'clock gene' activation
Researchers from Yamanashi University's faculty of medicine have found that severe allergic symptoms at night and in the morning may be caused by high activation of genes in the mast cells during those hours. The research group led by Atsuhito Nakao, a professor in the ...
Getting regular exercise and eating fresh vegetables can ease the symptoms of asthma, the National Center for Global Health and Medicine has reported. It is the first time that a healthy lifestyle — rather than a drug treatment — has been reported to control the ...
