Commentary / Japan Dec 5, 2019
Economic priorities beyond Abenomics
by Jesper Koll
Japan must move beyond Abenomics to start a new era of confidence and sustained growth.
National / Media | MEDIA MIX Nov 23, 2019
Overuse of Japan's medical system may be complicating treatment
by Philip Brasor
One of the criticisms of the “Medicare for All” government-run health care scheme proposed by U.S. Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is that eliminating all limits to treatment would lead to "overuse" of the medical care system, meaning people would be ...
National / Science & Health Nov 14, 2019
Japanese hospitals faced financial difficulties in fiscal 2018, survey finds
Hospitals faced continuing financial difficulties in fiscal 2018, with institutions across the country registering a minus 2.7 percent profit margin on average, a government survey has shown. The negative profit margin for hospitals with 20 or more beds was 0.3 percentage point better than in ...
World Oct 29, 2019
Facebook wants to offer users advice on preventive health care
Facebook Inc. is cracking the door open into another part of its users' personal lives: their health. The social media giant on Monday announced a feature that will use a person's age and gender to provide preventive health care information, including suggested checkups. Users can ...
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Oct 8, 2019
All the symptoms were there but it still took four doctors and several months of waiting before Bharti Kapar's cough and stomach pains were diagnosed as tuberculosis. Hailing from a poor town outside the smog-choked capital of New Delhi, Bharti, 24, was one of the ...
World / Social Issues Oct 4, 2019
Thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in Iraq's capital and across the south on Thursday, the third day of mass rallies that have left 31 dead. Defying curfews, tear gas and live rounds, demonstrators gathered to vent anger over corruption, unemployment and poor services ...
World / Science & Health Aug 13, 2019
This is the story of a 72-year-old retired electrician in Britain — let's call him "Jack" — who forgot to tell his surgeon that he wore dentures. Anyone reading this account of what happened next is unlikely to make the same mistake. Six days after having ...
World / Politics Jul 31, 2019
Boris Johnson aims to meet notorious Brexit bus pledge with health care boost
Boris Johnson plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on hospitals and health care technology, as the U.K.'s new prime minister seeks to deliver on his own most contentious political promise. Back in the 2016 referendum, Johnson's pro-Brexit campaign emblazoned a slogan on the ...
Business Jul 12, 2019
White House scraps key plan to lower U.S. drug prices, may target makers
The Trump administration on Thursday scrapped one of its most ambitious proposals for lowering prescription medicine prices, backing down from a policy aimed at health insurers and raising the possibility of new measures focused on drug makers. The abandoned proposal would have required health insurers ...
World / Crime & Legal Jul 10, 2019
Obamacare's future in play as U.S. appeals court weighs its constitutionality
The future of Obamacare could be at stake on Tuesday when a group of Democratic-led states and the House of Representatives urge a federal appeals court to overturn a Texas judge's ruling that the U.S. health care reform law is unconstitutional. Republicans have repeatedly tried ...
World / Science & Health Jun 25, 2019
London midwifery students use augmented tech to improve clinical skills
Midwifery students in London are learning to bring new life into the world in a radically new way with the help of augmented reality (AR) technology. Using AR headsets and lifelike models of full-term mothers, trainee midwives at Middlesex University can take part in fully ...