Health

A Japanese medical team has developed artificial intelligence that predicts whether emergency room patients with chest pain need to be treated with cardiac catheters based on the results of an electrocardiogram.

Sapporo radio personality Kazuya Yonezawa takes to the airwaves once a month, speaking to his listeners in a calm and low voice. But the 60-year-old’s words aren’t coming from his vocal cords.

If you suffer from pollen allergies and live in eastern or western Japan, forecasters recommend starting treatment as soon as possible.

Amid an outbreak of influenza, the nation has seen a spate of deaths in recent days following mass infections at nursing care facilities.

The education ministry said Tuesday it will not provide any subsidies to Tokyo Medical University for this or the next fiscal year after the institution was found to have discriminated against female applicants in its entrance examinations.

The number of people in Japan newly diagnosed with cancer in 2016 stood at 995,132, the health ministry said Thursday.

A group of Japanese researchers is developing a device in which a smartphone notifies epilepsy sufferers ahead of seizures via a sensor built into an undershirt that detects warning signs through fluctuations of the heart rhythm.

Japan has seen a series of incidents in which people inside cars stalled by heavy snow suffered carbon monoxide poisoning.

“Welcome to our avatar cafe,” said a real woman’s voice, coming from a robot. This was the Avatar Cafe “DAWN ver. β,” and the robots were being operated via remote control by people with severe physical disabilities working from their homes or elsewhere.

Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo, who jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research on the immune system that contributed to cancer treatments, said Thursday that he believes most cancers will become treatable with immune therapy by 2050.