Eddie Van Halen has emergency surgery, Japanese tour postponed
Eddie Van Halen, guitarist for the legendary rock band Van Halen, was forced to undergo an emergency surgery for a case of Diverticulitis, a digestive disease in the large intestine that causes...
View ArticleJapan successfully completes its first liver-kidney combined transplant
The surgeon in charge of the operation said on Sunday that a combined liver-kidney transplant, the first in Japan, ended in success at the Okayama University Hospital. The organs had been harvested...
View ArticleLiver transplant from live donor equals 73% survival rate, study shows
A health study conducted by Japanese researchers shows that patients suffering from acute liver failure who received an organ transplant from a live donor had a 10-year survival rate of 73%. This...
View ArticleVan Halen announce rescheduled Japan tour dates for 2013
Guitarist Eddie Van Halen is said to be successfully recovering from his emergency operation, and things are going so well that the iconic rock and roll band Van Halen has committed to rescheduled tour...
View ArticleJapanese scientists adapt ostrich arteries for use in heart bypass patients
A team of scientists in Japan have successfully harvested blood vessels from the long necks of ostriches and adapted them for use in heart bypass operations, with the hope that one day they could...
View ArticleJapanese researchers reach breakthrough for breast cancer regenerative medicine
Japanese researchers said they have reached a big breakthrough in regenerative medicine for breast cancer patients who have undergone breast-conserving surgery. Led by Bin Nakayama, an associate...
View ArticleJapanese doctor becomes multiple-organ surgery rockstar in US
Ask any surgeon in the world and they will say that surgery involving multiple-organs is one of the hardest operations that any doctor can perform. Tomoaki Kato became famous in the medical world in...
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Japanese woman spends $100k on plastic surgery to become ‘French doll’
“Vanilla Chamu” was an ordinary-looking – dare we say, “normal”? – 17-year-old Japanese girl, but that was before all the surgery and operations. Obviously, she wasn’t called Vanilla Chamu then, but...
View ArticleJapan approves insurance coverage for breast implants due to cancer
A panel from the Ministry of Health approved to provide medical insurance to patients who have breast reconstruction surgery following a mastectomy because of breast cancer. The decision is intended to...
View ArticleTokyo man arrested for posing as doctor, examining over 8,000 patients
A 45-year old man was arrested last Saturday for posing as a doctor, violating the Medical Practitioners Act. Akitoshi Kinoshiro, who used to be a clinic operator, treated more than 8,000 patients in...
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Japanese researchers develop sugar solution that makes biological tissues...
A scientific research may lead to nothing or a discovery of something new. Fortunately for the researchers of RIKEN Center for Development Biology, a recent discovery is found to have a medical...
View Article3-year-old in Japan receives world’s first partial lung transplant from mother
Doctors at the Okayama University Hospital in Japan have successfully transplanted into a 3-year-old boy part of a lung from the boy’s own mother on Monday. This successful operation is touted to be...
View ArticleSurvey says 15% of gender change operation patients have had complications
A survey conducted by an advocacy group showed that 15% of the 105 Japanese citizens who have had gender reassignment surgeries experienced some sort of complication after their procedure. The survey...
View ArticleJapanese seek to alter their fate and fortune through palm surgery
In a country where palmistry, the ancient art of foretelling the future through reading palm lines, is very popular, it was only a matter of time before the Japanese started taking matters into their...
View ArticleEddie Van Halen has emergency surgery, Japanese tour postponed
Eddie Van Halen, guitarist for the legendary rock band Van Halen, was forced to undergo an emergency surgery for a
View ArticleJapan successfully completes its first liver-kidney combined transplant
The surgeon in charge of the operation said on Sunday that a combined liver-kidney transplant, the first in Japan, ended
View ArticleLiver transplant from live donor equals 73% survival rate, study shows
A health study conducted by Japanese researchers shows that patients suffering from acute liver failure who received an organ transplant
View ArticleVan Halen announce rescheduled Japan tour dates for 2013
Guitarist Eddie Van Halen is said to be successfully recovering from his emergency operation, and things are going so well
View ArticleResearchers say carbon ion radiotherapy safe for spinal tumor patients
A group of researchers from the Research Center Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences
View ArticleCosmetic tattoos a growing trend among Japan’s senior citizens
Who says make-up is only for the young? Japan’s growing population of senior citizens are now drawn to the idea of permanent make-up through cosmetic tattoos. The idea of wearing eyebrow enhancers or...
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