In fast-aging Japan, struggles with dementia are a common story. But researchers hope that future breakthroughs will help them rewrite the ending. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/17/japan/science-health/dementia-research/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #aging #elderly #mentalhealth #alzheimer039s #medicine #pharmaceuticals #dementia #lecanemab #donanemab
The Japanese government is pushing for the development of a new plastic material that naturally decomposes in the sea as marine environmental pollution becomes ever more serious. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/15/japan/science-health/developing-biodegradable-plastics-to-reduce-marine-plastic-waste/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #oceans #environment #plastic #waste #meti #pollution
Japan’s young people are rethinking their relationship with alcohol — swapping late-night izakaya rounds for mocktails and zero-proof options. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/15/japan/science-health/nonalcoholic-drinks-youth-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #health #drinking #beer #alcohol
The parent body of asteroid Ryugu appears to have harbored water in the form of ice for over a billion years, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery that could reshape ideas on how the Earth got its oceans. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/japan/science-health/ryugu-asteroids-water-earth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #hayabusa2 #space #astronomy #asteroids #planets #ryugu
Researchers have gotten their best look yet of two black holes merging based on the detection of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, lending support to hypotheses from Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/world/science-health/black-hole-merger/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #space #astronomy
A report released to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day found a sharp rise since 2019 of people in Japan taken to hospital for self-harm and attempted suicide, especially among young people and women. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/japan/science-health/self-harm-women/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #health #suicide #mentalhealth #psychology #hospitals
The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology began allowing infertile couples involving women who are 35 and older to undergo preimplantation genetic testing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/09/japan/science-health/preimplantation-testing-expansion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #health #pregnancy
Takeda Pharmaceutical’s experimental narcolepsy drug has significantly improved outcome for patients in late-stage clinical trials, and could become the first treatment to target the disorder's root cause. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/09/japan/science-health/takeda-narcolepsy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #takeda #health #pharmaceuticals #sleep
A Kyoto University research group has developed a new type of protein that marks out cancer cells for easier removal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/08/japan/science-health/kyoto-university-develops-protein-to-help-remove-cancer-cells/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #kyotouniversity #cancer #health
Stargazers enjoyed a "Blood Moon" Sunday night during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia and swathes of Europe and Africa. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/08/world/science-health/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #moon #eclipse #space
U.S. President Donald Trump is standing by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary who is upending the U.S. health care system, despite congressional pressure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/07/world/science-health/trump-kennedy-risks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #donaldtrump #us #robertfkennedyjr #vaccinations #health#covid19
Japan is set to experience a blood moon on Monday, coinciding with the country’s "tsukimi" celebrations over September and October to mark the full moon. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/05/japan/science-health/lunar-eclipse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #space #astronomy #moon #lunareclipse
Tropical Storm Peipah made landfall in western Japan on Friday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to warn people in many areas of landslides and other disasters from torrential rain. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/05/japan/science-health/tropical-storm-peipah-landing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #typhoons #storms #meteorologicalagency
Could humans really live forever, as Russian President Vladimir Putin was heard telling Chinese leader Xi Jinping? Maybe not, though serious research is increasingly revealing more about why we age. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/05/world/science-health/xi-putin-immortality-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #vladimirputin #xijinping #biotechnology #genetics #transplants
Democratic and Republican senators pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a hearing on his recent vaccine policies and their contrast to President Donald Trump's COVID-19 pandemic vaccine initiative. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/05/world/science-health/us-senators-kennedy-vaccine-policy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #us #republicans #robertfkennedyjr #donaldtrump
Tropical Storm Peipah, which formed off southeastern Japan, is expected to travel east off the Tokai area and the Kanto region before turning into an extratropical cyclone by Saturday morning. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/04/japan/science-health/tropical-storm-peipah/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #typhoons #storms #meteorologicalagency
A Japanese research team has developed AI models that can help deliver personalized infertility treatments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/japan/science-health/ai-fertility-research/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #universityoftokyo #women039sissues #pregnancy #ai
Japan's health ministry is in talks to allow emergency contraceptive pills to be sold at pharmacies nationwide without age restrictions or the need for parental consent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/28/japan/science-health/emergency-contraceptive-pills/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #women039sissues #pregnancy #health #drugstores
Japan and India will use a joint crediting mechanism in their plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in India through Japanese technologies, sources say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/japan/science-health/japan-india-joint-crediting-mechanism/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #indiajapanrelations #india #carbon #emissions #tech
A case of infection with the flesh-eating screwworm has been identified in a person who traveled to the United States from Guatemala, sources have said, amid fears over the parasite's impact on the U.S. beef industry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/world/science-health/human-screwworm-us-guatemala/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth#screwworms #agriculture #guatemala #us #dairyindustry #cdc