Excessive intake of beef, pork boosts male diabetes risk
Source: Japan Times
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-05-23 22:05:00 -0700 | health-news
Men who eat large amounts of beef or pork daily face a heightened risk of diabetes, a team of researchers said Tuesday. No risk rise was seen in women, the team from the National Center for Global Health and Medicine...
Lessons from the Iressa case
Source: Japan Times
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-05-07 08:44:05 -0700 | health-news
The Supreme Court on April 12 upheld two high court rulings that said the state and the Japanese unit of British drug maker AstraZeneca PLC bore no liability for fatal side effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa. Lower...
Can you really train your brain to be more intelligent?
Source: Japan Times
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-04-26 08:21:56 -0700 | health-news
On Monday, I manned a busy beach bar and had to remember a range of ice-cream and pizza orders for a constant stream of customers. On Tuesday, I had to shoot down a selection of rapidly moving birds in a...
Meredith Moore: Mother, 45, with stage-three cancer who had organs removed and then replaced to get ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-04-07 15:20:46 -0700 | health-news
7 April 2013 A mother has been given the chance to see her two children grow up after a pioneering surgery which saved her from stage-three pancreatic cancer. Meredith Moore, 45, from Monroe, Orange County, was diagnosed with cancer in...
Printing firm raided over workers' bile duct cancer
Source: Japan Times
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-04-02 06:25:03 -0700 | health-news
Labor ministry investigators searched the Osaka head office of printing firm Sanyo-CYP Co. on Tuesday on suspicion it neglected its duty to take proper care of its workers' health, after 17 developed bile duct cancer, eight of whom died. The...
Trauma, Not Radiation, Is Key Concern In Japan
Source: National Public Radio
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2012-05-09 07:20:52 -0700 | technology-news
March 9, 2012 One year ago this Sunday, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off Japan triggered a tsunami that killed 20,000 people. It also triggered multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station, one of the worst nuclear disasters in...
New Discovery Could Prevent Degenerative Diseases From Expanding
Posted by: Adrian Holman
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2012-07-28 03:12:11 -0700 | health-news
A recent study by a Japanese research group could pave the way for scientists to create new treatments that could help treat against degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The study was done at Osaka University, and it deals...
Disturbing Iressa ruling
Source: Japan Times
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2012-01-22 21:40:35 -0800 | business-news
The plaintiffs appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court two days later. The high court appeared in a rush to make its ruling in the trial, which started in September. It held only two hearings and it took only three...
National › Japan's 1st catheter heart surgery of infant reported successful
Source: Japan Today
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2011-02-18 02:08:19 -0800 | technology-news
A six-month-old girl born with a serious congenital rapid heartbeat has successfully had the abnormal portion of her heart muscle removed with a catheter in the first such surgery on an infant in Japan, an Osaka city hospital said Saturday....
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