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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addresses the inaugural Make America Healthy Again summit in Washington on Nov. 12.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2025
Is America next after Canada to lose its measles elimination status?
In normal times, Canada’s misfortune might serve as a wake-up call for public health leaders in the U.S., which is precariously close to losing its own measles-free status.
The National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo’s Chuo ward
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 19, 2025
Five-year pancreatic cancer survival rate hits 10.7% for men and 10.2% for women
The rates are the lowest among all cancer types except for childhood cancers.
Former health minister Norihisa Tamura (center right) of the Liberal Democratic Party and House of Representatives member Satoshi Uemura (center left) of the Japan Innovation Party attend discussions on social security reform on Wednesday at the Diet building.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2025
LDP and JIP eye out-of-pocket price hike for OTC-like drugs
The parties are looking to increase patients’ costs for prescription medicines whose ingredients and effects are similar to those of over-the-counter drugs.
A Congolese Red Cross worker receives an mpox vaccination at a hospital in Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in October 2024.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2025
Third of donated Japanese mpox vaccines wasted in Congo amid storage issues
Japan has donated 3 million doses of its LC16 vaccine to Congo to help fight a new form of mpox known as clade Ib, which sparked a global health emergency last year.
A group of researchers from Japanese universities as well as British and South Korean scientists has discovered a factory-like cellular system that prevents insulin abnormalities, potentially paving the way for new diabetes treatments.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2025
'Factory' in cells found to prevent insulin abnormalities
The finding by a group of researchers from Japanese universities, as well as British and South Korean scientists, could help with the development of new diabetes treatments.
Early evidence suggests that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, when given shortly before cancer immunotherapy, may significantly boost survival rates by activating the immune system.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 12, 2025
What if the COVID-19 vaccine could save cancer patients too?
That something as simple as a COVID-19 vaccine might improve survival in cancer patients receiving standard immunotherapy has taken oncologists by surprise — in a good way.
Public hospitals in Japan are struggling to sustain regional health care systems, with more than 80% of them posting losses.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Nov 12, 2025
Public hospitals in Japan face severe financial strain
More than 80% of public hospitals are posting losses as medical service expenses rise faster than revenues.
Palestinians carry aid supplies in Gaza. UNICEF said it faces serious challenges getting 1.6 million syringes and solar-powered fridges to store vaccine vials into Gaza.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2025
UNICEF says Israel blocking 1 million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
The blockage comes amid Israeli concerns that items such as syringes and refrigerators could be repurposed for military use.
Venus Williams loses a point during a women’s singles match at the Mubadala Citi DC Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on July 24.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2025
Venus Williams exposed all that's wrong with U.S. health insurance
U.S. policymakers have made clear that rather than rock this boat, they’d prefer to wait for health care to tip over on its own.
Prescription medicines similar to OTC drugs are often for mild symptoms, such as pain relief patches, moisturizers and hay fever medication.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2025
Japan to review coverage for prescription medicines similar to OTC drugs
Prescription medicines similar to OTC drugs are often for mild symptoms, such as pain relief patches, moisturizers and hay fever medication.
An attendee at a longevity and anti-aging conference exits a cryotherapy chamber in Shanghai on Sept. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2025
In China, the dream of outrunning time
The search for the elixir of life, embraced with gusto in recent years by American tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, has been under way in China for more than two millenniums.
Scientists still don’t fully understand why women live longer than men. The aging process differs between the sexes and in most mammals, with females tending to live longer than males.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2025
How women could be the key to unlocking longer life
Scientists still don’t fully understand why women live longer than men. The aging process differs between the sexes and in most mammals, females tend to live longer than males.
Takeda's dengue vaccine shows seven years of strong protection against infection and hospitalization, marking the longest efficacy reported to date.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 4, 2025
Takeda’s dengue vaccine shows long-lasting protection
The results bolster confidence in Takeda’s two-dose regimen, especially as countries grapple with record dengue outbreaks fueled by climate change.
Manabu Ohuchi (center, left) and Andry Fanambinantsoa Rakotoarison (center, right) check a medical device during Ohuchi's visit to the University Hospital Center Professor Zafisaona Gabriel in Mahajanga, Madagascar, in August.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Nov 3, 2025
Firm helps clinical engineers from Madagascar receive technical training
Together with JICA, the company is teaching personnel how to maintain medical devices in the ultimate hope of saving lives in the impoverished nation.
Nobel Prize laureate Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and a professor at Osaka University, is part of a team that has developed a technique to produce regulatory T cells that suppress excessive immune activity.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 29, 2025
Nobel winner's team develops tech to make regulatory T cells
The team succeeded in turning T cells from mice suffering autoimmune diseases into stable regulatory T cells with a special culture method.
Shionogi CEO Isao Teshirogi says the firm's Dovato HIV treatment has top market share in Europe and is expected to continue expanding.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2025
Shionogi lifts profit outlook on HIV royalties and overseas growth
The company raised its full-year operating profit by 5.7% to ¥185 billion, beating analyst estimates.
A building housing the health ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 26, 2025
Japan to promote use of follow-on biologics
The ministry aims to introduce new measures in fiscal 2026 as a way to curb the country's ballooning medical costs.
Medical workers treat a patient in a COVID-19 ward at Chiba University Hospital in Chiba in August 2021.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 24, 2025
Japanese researchers link COVID-19 ‘brain fog’ to neural receptors
A study found that people who reported difficulty returning to daily life after contracting COVID-19 had a higher-than-usual density of a certain receptor.
Since medical and nursing care services are offered at fixed prices set by the state, many service providers are struggling to cope with rapid inflation and are operating at a loss.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Balancing medical services and costs will be major challenge for Takaichi
With services offered at fixed prices set by the state, many service providers are struggling to cope with rapid inflation and are operating at a loss.
A Novo Nordisk office in Bagsvaerd, on the outskirts of Copenhagen
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 22, 2025
Novo's board bust-up to sharpen drugmaker's focus on U.S. consumers
The Danish drugmaker that initially soared on the success of its obesity drug has lost its market lead to U.S. rival Eli Lilly and cheaper copycats.
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Americans with four-year degrees now comprise a record 25% of unemployed workers
A job fair in Fletcher, North Carolina. The unemployment rate for bachelor’s degree-holders in the U.S. rose to 2.8% in September, up a half-percentage point from a year earlier.
War refugee Aonishiki becomes first Ukrainian to win sumo tournament
Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki receives the Prime Minister's Cup from Takahiro Inoue, an adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, on Sunday in Fukuoka after becoming the first from his nation to win a tournament in the traditional Japanese sport.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
Top Chinese diplomat weighs in on Takaichi’s ‘shocking’ Taiwan remarks
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Lanting Forum in Beijing on Oct. 27.
TV icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's memoir paints a life of both war and glamour
“Totto” in “Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel” was the nickname young Tetsuko Kuroyanagi gave herself as a child, mispronouncing her first name.
The secret to 'Last Samurai Standing'? Treating live action like anime.
“Last Samurai Standing” centers on a mysterious fighting event in which participants must hack and slash their opponents apart to collect enough wooden tags to win a big-money prize.
‘Tampopo’ lives on in bowls of ramen around the world
Juzo Itami's 1985 movie "Tampopo" has inspired many restaurateurs around the world to open their own ramen shop with the same name, such as this establishment in Auckland, New Zealand.
All systems Go for upstart Machida Zelvia after landmark Emperor’s Cup triumph
Machida manager Go Kuroda lifts the trophy as the club celebrates its victory over Vissel Kobe in the Emperor’s Cup final at National Stadium on Saturday.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.

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