The Department of Disease Control (DDC) is warning Japan-bound travellers to seriously protect themselves against infection by a rare and often fatal flesh...
Tag - Health
Punishing hot weather affects not only a person’s health or work productivity but also affects couples’ fertility and birth outcomes, a project by the National...
The government is considering scrapping the idea of expanding the range of older residents who must pay out of their pockets 20% of the costs of elderly care...
The number of syphilis cases in Japan totaled 13,251 this year as of Sunday, hitting a record high for the third consecutive year, national data showed Friday...
A bird flu case has been confirmed at a chicken farm in Saga Prefecture, the agriculture ministry said Saturday, marking the season’s first confirmed...
British pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Arexvy (respiratory...
As of September 1, 2023, there were 92,139 centenarians in Japan, an increase of 1,613 from the previous year, according to resident registration data. This is...
A Japanese fruit known for its sweetness may be a valuable resource to combat high blood pressure, one of the major causes of cardiovascular disease, which...
Patients are dying because drugs used in Europe and the United States are not immediately available in Japan. The situation cannot be overlooked. The...
As Jo Wang, an event planner in Beijing, watched her family members fall ill with Covid-19 one by one late last month she had a single goal: find antiviral...
