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Japan lifts more than decade-old ban on use of Tamiflu for 10- to 19-year-olds
The health ministry has lifted a ban on the use of the flu drug Tamiflu — introduced over a decade ago after some people who took the drug reportedly demonstrated abnormal behavior — for patients 10 to 19 years old. The ministry on Tuesday instructed ...
Cheap drug could reduce postpartum bleeding deaths by a third: study
A cheap and widely available drug could save the lives of 1 in 3 of the 100,000 new mothers who bleed to death after childbirth every year, mostly in poorer countries, according to the first study of its use in postpartum hemorrhage. In a trial ...
Pop singer-songwriter Aska was arrested Monday for allegedly using illegal stimulants, which would violate the parole terms of his suspended 2014 prison sentence. The 58-year-old Aska, whose real name is Shigeaki Miyazaki, had posted a number of comments on his blog on Monday afternoon before ...
Japanese researchers have recently begun a clinical study of the flu drug Avigan to see if it can cure a tick-transmitted infectious disease that has a relatively high fatality rate and no effective treatment. Avigan, developed by a unit of Tokyo-based Fujifilm Holdings Corp., is ...
A 12-year-old boy in the city of Kyoto has admitted to smoking marijuana, it was learned Tuesday. Investigators in the Kyoto Prefectural Police said it is extremely rare for an elementary school student to be questioned in connection with a possible violation of the Cannabis ...
Prosecutors will not indict ex-Toyota exec Hamp over painkillers
Former Toyota executive Julie Hamp will not be charged with illegally importing a controlled painkiller, investigative sources say.
Oregon woman released following arrest over prescription drug Adderall
An Oregon woman arrested in Japan on Feb. 20 and detained for 18 days after her mother shipped her a prescription drug for attention-deficit disorder was released from custody on Tuesday and now plans to return to the U.S. Carrie Russell takes Adderall, and a ...
U.S. and Liberian researchers have started a clinical trial to test the safety and effectiveness of Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc.'s Ebola drug ZMapp, an experimental treatment that has already been tried in a handful of Ebola patients, including two U.S. missionaries. The trial, a joint effort ...
Pop star Aska pleads guilty to drug charges
Prosecutors demand a three-year term for singer Shigeaki Miyazaki, the disgraced pop star better known as Aska, as his trial over illegal drug use opens in Tokyo.
Japan to help fight Ebola outbreak if requested
If requested, the government will provide to the World Health Organization and other parties an unapproved medicine that might help combat the deadly Ebola virus, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
Driver killed in Tachikawa suspected of taking 'dappo' drugs
A driver in his 30s was found dead in a crushed minicar that had slammed into a utility pole along a street in the western Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa on Thursday, police said. The police plan to investigate whether the driver had been under the ...
Singer-songwriter Aska, half of the well-known musical duo Chage and Aska, has admitted using illegal stimulants, investigative sources said Friday, almost a week after he was arrested on suspicion of possessing the drugs. Aska, 56, could receive a fresh arrest warrant over the drugs as ...
