Japanese MHLW clears Roche's Avastin as glioblastoma therapy
Source: Pharmaceutical Industry News
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-18 01:07:54 -0700 | health-news
Roche's Avastin (bevacizumab) as a combination therapy and monotherapy to treat the aggressive form of brain cancer glioblastoma. The first new medicine that is globally approved for newly diagnosed glioblastoma is cleared for use in combination with radiotherapy and temozolomide...
Japan experts mull rules on chimeric embryos
Source: Qatar English Daily
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-17 23:29:13 -0700 | health-news
Japanese experts were Tuesday set to discuss rules for experiments with animal-human embryos, as scientists seek permission for tests that could see human organs produced inside the growing body of an animal. Researchers want to introduce a human stem cell...
How to Cure Office Politics
Source: Inc.
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-17 13:48:18 -0700 | health-news
Here's the cure. (It also works against workplace bullies and bad bosses, too). Corbis Skip the Gossip Some people play political games at work. Not most, but enough to cause serious issues for the rest of us. It seems to...
Free Webinar: Cultivate Empowering Beliefs & How to End Self-Sabotage
Source: World of Psychology & Mental Health
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-06-17 10:34:23 -0700 | health-news
Save the date for our latest free webinar, to be held next Monday, June 24: Cultivate Empowering Beliefs How to Create Personal Freedom and End Self-Sabotage . If you tend to sabotage your plans in life, it is likely because of...
Maternity leave, day care still elude many working mothers
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-17 16:55:00 -0700 | health-news
Like many full-time working mothers in Japan, Eriko Soyama, 36, had a tough time getting her children into day care to continue her career. Soyama, a resident of Tokyo's Suginami Ward, had her first child nine years ago. When her...
Citing Side Effects, Japan Pulls Recommendations For HPV Vaccines
Source: Pharmalot
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-17 12:04:44 -0700 | health-news
In the latest blow to drugmakers that market HPV vaccines, the Japanese health ministry has withdrawn its recommendation for vaccination after receiving hundreds of side effects reports of long-term pain and numbness, among other things, The Asahi Shimbun writes.
Cheating Ourselves of Sleep
Source: The New York Times Health Blog
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-16 21:10:37 -0700 | health-news
Christopher Neal Think you do just fine on five or six hours of shut-eye? Chances are, you are among the many millions who unwittingly shortchange themselves on sleep. Research shows that most people require seven or eight hours of sleep...
Why Mistakes Aren't As Bad As You Think
Source: World of Psychology & Mental Health
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-16 14:34:20 -0700 | health-news
Accidentally pressed reply all to everyone in my company, offering sincere condolences to a co-worker who lost her mom three years ago, which spurred dozens of emails companywide on who died, and whether or not the company should send flowers...Wrote...
Businessman allegedly posed as doctor at Tokyo-area clinic he owned
Source: United Press International
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-15 12:32:54 -0700 | health-news
A Japanese businessman who had invested in a medical clinic, began treating patients because he could not find anyone to work Wednesdays, investigators say. Investigators say Akitoshi Kinoshiro, 45, may have treated several thousand patients at the clinic in the...
Humble true tales of a ‘good man'
Source: Japan Times
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-06-15 09:48:59 -0700 | health-news
The journals of Kenjiro Setoue, a doctor at a clinic on a small Kyushu island, chronicle a life that is, as the doctor himself notes, for the most part, unexciting. It is difficult to believe that a version of this...
New Merck R&D Chief Overhauls Operations & Cuts Are Coming
Source: Pharmalot
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-14 11:25:03 -0700 | health-news
Two months after arriving at Merck as the new head of R&D, Roger Perlmutter is moving quickly to overhaul the operation, which is known as Merck Research Laboratories ( back story )...The new design has been established to ensure that...
PRISM Pharma to fund trials of PRI-724 with $15m Series C financing
Source: Pharmaceutical Industry News
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-14 07:41:05 -0700 | health-news
Pharma, a developer of small molecule technologies, has closed an approximately $15m Series C financing to fund clinical trials of its lead compound PRI-724 for the treatment of fibrosis and other related conditions...PRI-724, which is currently in clinical trials for...
HPV vaccine raises questions
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-13 09:05:31 -0700 | health-news
On April 1, vaccinations against cervical cancer began being administered on a regular basis free of charge. But a series of reports have surfaced suggesting that the vaccinations have caused side effects. Parents of children who are said to have...
Infants express sympathy for others in distress
Source: Indian Express
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-13 09:15:38 -0700 | health-news
Infants as young as ten months old express sympathy for others in distress in non-verbal ways, according to a new research Infants at this age are known to assign goals and intentions to geometric figures; hence the researchers used a...
Perspectives: DSM-5 and fallacy of biblical analogy
Source: Jerusalem Post
Ami :: Japan | updated 2013-06-12 13:05:24 -0700 | health-news
I At its annual convention in San Francisco last month, the American Psychiatric Association released the fifth version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Already, the tome has acquired two nicknames: DSM-5 and, like its predecessors, the...
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