About 0.25 percent of the population requires dialysis, but this group is responsible for one-30th of the country's medical costs.
The system for training doctors is worsening the disparity between medical care in urban and rural areas.
The government should tread cautiously as it looks to cut services for people with health problems that aren't considered "serious."
Collusion between pharmaceutical companies and medical institutions to grab large chunks of medical spending is driving drug prices to stratospheric heights.
Key players in Kanto-area medical services are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet — and the higher consumption tax is the prime culprit.
A failure to analyze massive amounts to public health data threatens Japan's ability to provide high quality medical care.
A landmark decision means thousands of atomic bomb survivors living outside of Japan will get full health coverage.
A new system by which patients can request drugs and treatments not yet approved in Japan carries significant risks.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to postpone the second stage of the sales tax hike is likely to wreak havoc on health care provisions for the elderly. Abe last week delayed plans to raise the sales tax to 10 percent from 8 percent until April ...
President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services Secretary is resigning after the rocky rollout of his signature health care law, a White House official said Thursday. Kathleen Sebelius' resignation comes just over a week after the end of the first enrollment period for the health ...
Monday marked the end of the six-month sign-up period for insurance under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a highly controversial attempt to reduce the number of Americans without medical coverage, estimated at about 50 million. So far the complicated new system has enticed more ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that the ailing health insurance website was improving thanks to "relentless" efforts to work out the bugs, and she cited an uptick in enrollment as evidence that the program is back on track after a ...
