Public advised to check schedules of local hospitals and clinics before 10-day Golden Week holiday
The government and medical institutions are calling on people to check which hospitals and clinics will be open during the upcoming longer Golden Week holiday as some outpatient departments will be closed. People with chronic conditions such as hypertension and diabetes are particularly advised to ...
Did Tokyo immigration officials allow proper treatment for ailing Kurdish detainee?
It had the appearance of a scandal in the making. On March 12, a late-night scuffle broke out at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, causing an outcry over the alleged "inhumane" treatment of a person being held there. That evening, relatives of Kurdish detainee Mehmet Colak ...
Brought public discussions should be held on a new type of prenatal diagnosis that can detect chromosome abnormalities.
Tokyo hospital probed over alleged suggestions, one fatal, that kidney patients halt dialysis
Fussa Hospital is suspected of suggesting to 149 kidney disease patients that they forgo the blood-cleansing treatment, resulting in the death of at least one.
Private clinics get Japan medical body's OK to do prenatal tests for chromosome irregularities
The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology's (JSOG) executive board has decided to allow obstetrician-gynecologists who run private practices to conduct blood tests on pregnant women to detect possible chromosome abnormalities such as Down syndrome in their fetuses. Currently, 92 hospitals, mostly large ones, have ...
Arizona health care facility to shut down after disabled woman's rape that resulted in birth
An Arizona long-term health care facility will shut down after a severely disabled patient was raped, a crime that only came to light after she gave birth. Officials from Hacienda HealthCare said in a statement on Thursday that its board of directors had voted to ...
Medical diagnostic services using artificial intelligence are set to be introduced this year in Japan, where the adoption of information technology in health care has been slow, sources said Monday. The private Showa University in Tokyo together with Nagoya University and Cybernet Systems Co. have ...
Around 2.23 million people are estimated to have been diagnosed with influenza during the reporting period, up about 100,000 from the previous week.
Why should a different overtime standard be applied to doctors than to workers in general?
Clinic founder aims to show Japan's hospitals how to become better workplaces for women
Many female doctors at large hospitals operating around the clock have no choice but to put their careers on hold when they become pregnant or give birth, and eventually end up quitting without being able to gain further experience. To change this, Chizuko Kuwae, 66, ...
Number of flu patients nationwide hits second-highest level since 1999
The number of influenza patients per medical institution in Japan in the week through last Sunday hit the second-highest level since the survey started in 1999, the health ministry says.
Suggesting an outbreak of the disease, the number of influenza patients per medical institution exceeded the alarm level of 30 in the week through Jan. 13.
