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Despite detente, sanctions on North Korea fan TB epidemic
The chief of North Korea's tuberculosis laboratory, Dr. O Yong Il, swings open a glass door with an orange biohazard sign and gestures to the machine he hoped would revolutionize his life's work. Tuberculosis is North Korea's biggest public health problem. With the American-made GeneXpert ...
Ex-nurse sent to prosecutors over suspicious death of elderly patient
A 31-year-old former nurse was turned over to prosecutors Monday after being arrested Saturday for allegedly murdering an elderly patient in 2016 at a Yokohama hospital where three other patients also died under suspicious circumstances, police said. Ayumi Kuboki has admitted to killing Sozo Nishikawa, ...
Ex-nurse arrested for allegedly poisoning patient at Yokohama hospital in 2016
A 31-year-old former nurse was arrested Saturday for allegedly murdering an elderly patient in 2016 at a Yokohama hospital where three other patients also died under suspicious circumstances, police said. Ayumi Kuboki has admitted to killing Sozo Nishikawa, 88, who died on Sept. 18, 2016, ...
Long before Pasteur, the forgotten medical 'genius' Semmelweis pioneered disinfection
It is not an uncommon fate for a pioneering scientist: languishing unrecognized during his time and then dying in obscurity. But on his 200th birthday, the life-saving work of a Hungarian obstetrician is finally getting its due. Decades before Louis Pasteur won widespread acceptance for ...
App helps non-Japanese find multilingual medical services
Are you on the hunt for an English-speaking doctor in Tokyo? A handy smartphone app aims to help foreign residents and visitors easily find multilingual medical services. Japan Hospital Guide, released by Tokyo-based nonprofit organization Japan Medical Support System For Visitors From Abroad (JaMSSVA), shows ...
For foreign residents and tourists who don't understand Japanese, seeking medical attention can be stressful because few doctors are proficient in English. But some clinics and hospitals , including Kobayashi International Clinic in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, are making efforts to help those who can't speak ...
As tourism numbers spike, Japan's hospitals face payment and language challenges
For a Filipino man visiting Tokyo in May last year, the tour of the capital was supposed to be a fun sightseeing trip. But the man collapsed after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage and was rushed to NTT Medical Center Tokyo in Shinagawa Ward for an ...
USS Mercy docks in Tokyo for show-and-tell visit with LDP lawmakers
A U.S. naval hospital ship docked in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Saturday at the invitation of a group of ruling bloc lawmakers who are calling for Japan to build hospital ships of its own. The visit is the first by the 272-meter USS Mercy. The ...
Planned cut in doctors' overtime hours worries Japan's rural hospitals
As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration pushes to pass labor reform bills in the current Diet session, many major hospitals in the Chubu region are concerned that the bills, which include a cap on the working hours of doctors, could lead to a deterioration ...
Outcry in France after emergency operator mocked woman during call who later died
French prosecutors opened an inquiry Wednesday into the death of a young woman just hours after her distress call to emergency services was mocked by the operator, prompting a public outcry and renewed calls for more funding for health services. Naomi Musenga, 22, dialed France's ...
For a Tokyo man, being told by friends and neighbors that he looked nothing like his parents was a source of pain growing up, and his own suspicions that he might not be his parents' biological son proved to be true many years later. The ...
Japan's Hitachi to trial 'world's first urine test' to spot cancer
Hitachi is poised to carry out what it hailed as the world's first experiment to test for cancer using urine samples, which would greatly facilitate screening for the deadly disease. The engineering and IT conglomerate developed the basic technology to detect breast or colon cancer ...
