A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first ...

The 15-person trip titled "The Journey East" will include four days of wellness traditions, including tea ceremonies, ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the ...

An anti-obesity drug, the first such medicine to become available in Japan, has been approved for manufacturing and sales by an expert panel of the health ministry. The decision, made Nov. 28 ...

She explained that she frequented drug stores when she had free time and made purchases for relatives and friends who had asked her to buy the medicine when in Japan. With reports China is bracing ...

Researchers have discovered that Daphne pseudomezereum (commonly known as Onishibari) contains a substance inhibiting ...

Nuclear medicine therapy is a treatment that uses the power of radiation to destroy cancer from within the body. 00:54 In Japan, development is underway on new, more potent drugs that hold promise ...

As avian influenza continues to spread around the world, researchers in Japan are turning to human medicine to protect rare and endangered bird species. Anti-virals are turning out good results in ...

Though Japan has surpassed South Korea in terms of research and development (R&D) in the area of regenerative medicine, South Korea has been more successful at commercialization. This paper focuses on ...