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Heart health confab features fish oil, vitamin D, cholesterol news
Fish oil, vitamin D, novel drugs, new cholesterol guidelines: News from an American Heart Association conference over the weekend reveals a lot about what works and what does not for preventing heart attacks and other problems. Dietary supplements missed the mark, but a prescription-strength fish ...
Ever feel like it's 7 a.m., even though the clock says 9 a.m.? A team of researchers at Northwestern University said Monday they have designed a blood test that can measure a person's inner body clock within 1.5 hours, an advance that may help personalize ...
Forty percent of Japanese adults face higher risk of disease from lack of exercise: WHO
About 40 percent of Japanese adults were physically inactive in 2016, above the global average of 28 percent, exposing them to risks of heart disease, cancer and diabetes, WHO said.
Diabetes camp helps Japanese children take control of disease at young age
During a summer camp in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, children screamed with excitement as they ran toward incoming waves at a beach. They were no different from other kids enjoying themselves except that they had diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile diabetes because it ...
Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes, study says
Air pollution caused 1 in 7 new cases of diabetes in 2016, according to a U.S. study, which found that even low levels of pollution raise the chances of developing the chronic disease. Diabetes has primarily been associated with lifestyle factors like diet and a ...
Type 1 diabetic travelers to Japan, be prepared
Traveling to Japan with Type 1 diabetes can be tough, but only if you allow it to be.
Scientists on Friday unveiled a revised classification for diabetes, one they said could lead to better treatments and help doctors more accurately predict life-threatening complications from the disease. Rather than the two currently recognized, they reported in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a leading medical ...
Japan doctors tap health-monitoring app to help diabetics keep dialysis at bay
In September 2016, freelance journalist Yutaka Hasegawa touched off a firestorm of criticism after writing in his blog that diabetes patients receiving dialysis should pay for the treatment themselves instead of using public health insurance. He argued that it was their "corrupt" lifestyles that ...
Health ministry looks to help Japan's welfare recipients ward off lifestyle diseases
The health ministry plans to launch a system to encourage welfare recipients suspected of suffering lifestyle diseases such as diabetes to receive early-stage treatment, according to sources. An advance project to assess the system's effectiveness will be conducted in the next fiscal year, the sources ...
Diabetes continues to trend up in Japan with 10 million suspected adult cases
About 10 million adults in Japan are strongly suspected of having diabetes, a 2016 survey by the health ministry showed Thursday. The figure, up 500,000 from the previous survey in 2012, has been on an upward trend since 1997, when suspected diabetics totaled 6.9 million. The ...
Diabetes emerges as Japan's hidden scourge
Reading a review of British writer Bee Wilson's "First Bite: How We Learn to Eat" in the London Review of Books, I stumbled on an astonishing figure: 4 million people in the U.K. have diabetes. An unhealthy diet and increasingly sedentary lifestyle have taken ...
Tochigi 'exorcist' held in death of diabetic boy may be involved in other cases: police
Hiroji Kondo, 60, an exorcist from Tochigi Prefecture who is suspected of killing a 7-year-old diabetic boy by persuading his parents to discontinue insulin injections, has confessed to conducting exorcisms for over a decade, police said. Kondo, from the town of Shimotsuke in Tochigi Prefecture, ...
