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MEDICINE

WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 11, 2016
Genome offers clues on thwarting disease-carrying ticks
Scientists have unlocked the genetic secrets of one of the least-loved creatures around, the tick species that spreads Lyme disease. The research may lead to new methods to control these diminutive arachnids that dine on blood.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 10, 2016
China confirms first case of Zika virus
China has confirmed its first case of the Zika virus in a man who had recently travelled to South America, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2016
Japan takes aim at ballooning drug prices as costs strain health budget
When two of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies announced a tie-up in Japan, its $78 billion drug industry took note.
EDITORIALS
Feb 5, 2016
Widening asbestos compensation
The government should work out a scheme to provide relief to construction workers who suffered health damage from asbestos, which was widely used during Japan's construction boom.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2016
No need to panic over Zika
While the mosquito-borne virus Zika is a serious treat, modern civilization can cope.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 4, 2016
Zika mosquitoes' habits may foil U.S. elimination efforts
Health experts are bracing for Zika virus to spread to the United States by April or May, borne by a mosquito that craves human blood, feeds during the day and lives under beds and inside closets.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 3, 2016
Takeda to evaluate Zika vaccine possibilities
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Asia's largest drugmaker, has assembled an internal team to look into how it might contribute to vaccine efforts to combat the Zika virus, the mosquito-borne pathogen that is currently spreading through the Americas.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2016
Japanese team invents movable tongue prosthesis to enable speech for cancer victims
Dentistry researchers at Okayama University have come up with what could be the world's first movable tongue prosthesis to help oral cancer patients who have partially lost the ability to speak.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jan 27, 2016
Simulated patients pitch Japan's medical students cultural curve balls
An innovative program matches foreign volunteer 'patients' with Japanese medical students for role-play.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2016
Beware the hazards of cosmetic surgery
Plastic surgery is hugely popular the world over, but when it goes wrong the results can be catastrophic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 8, 2016
Congolese boy, 8, who lost lips in deadly chimp attack to get rare reconstruction surgeries in New York
An 8-year-old boy whose lips were torn off during an attack by chimpanzees as he played near a river in his native Democratic Republic of Congo will undergo a rare double-lip reconstruction at a New York hospital next week.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2015
Guinea declared free of Ebola virus
Guinea was declared free of Ebola on Tuesday after more than 2,500 people died from the virus in the West African nation, leaving Liberia as the only country still awaiting a countdown for the end of the epidemic.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 12, 2015
Food for thought: A traditional Okinawan diet may help prolong life
The view that, if there is a Garden of Eternal Life, it is likely located in Okinawa, may be a touch exaggerated but few places offer better models for the correlation between food, health and longevity than Japan's southern islands.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2015
Education board member calls for more prenatal screening to reduce 'burden' of disabled children
An Ibaraki education board member sparks online outrage by suggesting more prenatal screening to reduce difficulties for parents of disabled kids.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 19, 2015
Alarming new 'superbug' gene found in animals and people in China
A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China — including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said this week.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 14, 2015
WHO says 25,000 wounded a month in Syria; medicines lacking and cholera feared
About 25,000 people are wounded each month in the escalating warfare in Syria and it getting harder to deliver medical supplies for civilians trapped in areas held by Islamic State insurgents, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2015
British Ebola nurse recovers again and leaves specialist hospital unit
A Scottish nurse who contracted and recovered from Ebola, but then suffered life-threatening complications from the virus persisting in her brain, has recovered enough to be transferred to a hospital near her home, doctors said on Thursday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2015
Medical bodies launch system to track laparoscopic surgeries
In response to last year's scandal in which a number of patients died after undergoing laparoscopic liver surgery, two key medical bodies have introduced a system to track such procedures to ensure safety and transparency.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 5, 2015
Ultrasound combined with mammography aid in early breast cancer detection, study finds
Researchers from Tohoku University have found that ultrasound screening combined with mammography aid in early detection of breast cancer.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 5, 2015
Case for testing cancer in blood builds, one study at a time
Two new studies published on Wednesday of patients with breast and prostate cancers add to growing evidence that detecting bits of cancer DNA circulating in the blood can guide patient treatment.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
Kenshi Yonezu, 'Chainsaw Man' and the art of pop ubiquity
Kenshi Yonezu's “Iris Out” was an instant hit when it dropped in September. Its association with smash anime "Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc" has spread it to even more people.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
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