Japan's New Public Health Problem Is Getting Big
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TOKYO -- When he arrives home late from work, Keizo Takemi says, he often furtively opens the refrigerator and searches for something to quiet his growling stomach. He is about to pounce when he hears his daughter's voice. "Daaaaad," she snaps, and he guiltily closes the fridge and slinks off to bed...
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Dozens more people in Japan on Thursday said they fell sick after eating Chinese-made food, a day after Japanese food companies recalled pesticide-contaminated dumplings from China that sickened 10 people.
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With the Chinese economy booming and people&#39;s living standards rising, the number of overweight citizens in the world&#39;s most populous nation has shot up to 200 million, which could trigger a major health hazard, the government said here today.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whisked to a hospital a day after he resigned for exhaustion and psychological anguish, is the latest high-profile figure to seek treatment over work-related duress in a nation known for its stressed-out laborers.
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The Japanese government says urgent policy changes are needed to reverse the country's population decline.
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NEW YORK  - The public health burden  related to unsafe sexual activity is three times higher in the  U.S. than in other developed nations, according to researchers  at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Some public health experts watching the aftermath of the tsunami disaster fear the outpouring of emergency relief supplies and the rush to head off outbreaks of disease will prove misguided or wasteful in some respects.
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Tests performed in Japan have identified that country's first human case of avian influenza and four other cases that are almost certainly the same ailment.
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Measures to tackle rising public health problems are being hit by a lack of funds, health chiefs say.
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Japan has confirmed a new case of mad cow disease, the third discovery of the brain-wasting illness in the country this year. Â¡Â¡A prefectural spokesman says the 5-year-old
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An increase in chronic diseases in China is due to poor nutritional knowledge and a lack of educational programs, health officials say.
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Concerns that the influenza drug Tamiflu -- seen as effective against a possible pandemic triggered by bird flu -- may induce fatal side effects are growing in Japan after two people who took it fell to their deaths last month.
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Activists, entertainers and health workers gathered across Asia as health officials say the risk of catching the disease is rising for women and girls.
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Japan confirmed its 13th mad cow disease on Wednesday, said the health ministry, as the nation is in short of beef supply for the ban of imports from the United States.
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Asia faces an outbreak of unprecedented proportions as it grapples with avian influenza, which the World Health Organization warns could develop into a pandemic unless detection and prevention methods are improved.
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TOKYO - One in 10 high school students in northern Japan has chlamydia, a curable sexually transmitted disease, a study showed Thursday.