Posted in: Single HPV shot enough for young women: WHO experts See in context
What is this nonsense about discrimination in the comments? HPV kills more women than men, so if you don't have enough vaccines for everybody girls come first. The vaccine has already proved to reduce deaths on women, if one dose does this effectively there is no point in wasting more doses to get the same result.
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Posted in: New hope to help advanced Parkinson's patients walk, sleep again See in context
Anybody that has taken care of a patient with parkinson's clearly understand how big of an advancent this represent. Life quality would be completely different.
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Posted in: California start-up sends tiny robots on voyage into brains See in context
Fascinating news, can't wait to see how useful this technology can become. A lot of problems on the brain could be solved if this prove to be safe.
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Posted in: Live-action 'Spirited Away' stage play to stream online this summer See in context
The cast for July 4 seems much better, July 3 seems more like popular choices.
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Posted in: Man arrested for robbing same internet cafe twice See in context
So internet cafes are easier to rob than convenience stores? maybe the clerks need to have some extra training about how to deal with this situation.
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Posted in: COVID pandemic shaping kids' career aspirations, survey shows See in context
can I trust this?
It is not like it is a scientific report but I guess that is what kids think these days, girls do not want to have flower shops to tend funerals.
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Posted in: Ex-nursery school head indicted over 5-year-old boy's death in bus See in context
Terrible story to read, can't believe people taking care of children could have so little care, anything that can mean a child may lost their lives merits a couple of extra checks, it doesn't even takes that much time.
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Posted in: With students in turmoil, U.S. teachers train in mental health See in context
It is a shame a global pandemic was necessary for this delayed development, this has been needed for decades already.
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Posted in: Woman attacked by daughter’s ex-boyfriend on Feb 14 dies in hospital See in context
Terrible situation, the girl is going to need a lot of mental health support from now on because of the terrible actions of a boy. I hope she can soon recover from this at least partially.
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Posted in: Services open doors for minorities in Japan looking for housing See in context
It is nice that Mr Suto took on himself to do something about the problem, on the other hand it is very sad that the need for something like this is still present.
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Posted in: 11-year-old boy hit and killed by train in Saitama Prefecture See in context
This is only going to increase as the weather changes, specially with the problems of last year and the students again returning to class.
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Posted in: 15 jump into sea after fishing boat catches fire off Kagoshima See in context
Good that everybody was rescued alive, and I hope all get soon discharged and make a full recovery.
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Posted in: Australia battles spread of Japanese encephalitis See in context
Wait until mosquitos can overwinter in Honshu and you will see a real epidemic of vector borne diseases in Japan, not only Japanese encephalitis (young people are not being vaccinated against it anymore), but many other as well. Australia is just a warning about what is to come because of climate change.
On the other hand, trying to blame this on COVID vaccines? really? that is desperate even for antivaxxers, ONE case of encephalitis do not explain an outbreak of the very different syndrome of encephalitis, you need to be totally ignorant about medicine to pretend they are related.
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Posted in: How pet cancer data sheds light on human cancers and speeds development of new treatments See in context
I was just reading about something related on pets and infectious diseases, it is incredible how much can be found out about common diseases by trying to treat animals. It is not surprising that many researchers on human diseases have also veterinary degrees.
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Posted in: Tokyo changes age limit for kids going into opposite sex’s bath at hot springs and sento See in context
Saw this coming from 10 years ago, times change and attitudes about nudity as well, maybe in the future things will go back and sexuality and nudity will not be automatically assumed as equal.
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Posted in: Study offers reassurance on COVID shots, women's periods See in context
I guess stereotypes are born from a reason, but it had to be men overreacting and making such a fuzz over a delay of a period. There are many women that never have a regular period, others that get a delay if they drink one extra cup of coffee in the morning. Making this normal thing an argument is just proving once again that men ignore even basic women health.
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Posted in: U.S., Japan agree to keep troops on base to curb COVID spread See in context
This should have been done from the very beginning, the first measure before thinking what else could be done.
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Posted in: Peace Boat goes virtual with A-bomb survivors' stories amid pandemic See in context
How come people keep missing the point completely?
This is not a revenge boat or poor Japan boat, its purpose is to avoid nuclear weapons from being used anywhere on the planet. A crime that humanity did to itself not to be repeated ever again.
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Posted in: Dozens crushed to death in crowd at Israeli religious festival See in context
Terrible thing happening during what should have been a happy celebration. I hope the list of victims don't grow in the following days.
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Posted in: Samsung takes back smartphone crown from Apple See in context
Apple is not the same as it was when Jobs was alive, this is not surprising at all.
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Posted in: China, Japan trade acrimonious barbs over Fukushima tweet See in context
Meaningless bravado that will amount to nothing at the end, the issue is important and should be discussed like that instead of putting too much attention to this.
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Posted in: 5 arrested over violent theft of Lady Gaga's dogs See in context
I would love to be as important as a famous person dogs so investigations would be also done so quickly for me.
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Posted in: Japan to send respirators, oxygen concentrators to India See in context
A tiny speck compared with the need, but I guess anything helps
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Posted in: Golden Week travel begins despite pleas from governors to stay home See in context
How about a "Go to nowhere" campaign? Where transportation, highway fees, etc. get a nice extra charge so people find more expensive to travel during the state of emergency? Either people stay home or there is an extra amount of cash to support the hospitals treating covid patients.
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Posted in: Taiwan envoy hopes Japan will play greater role in regional stability See in context
Taiwan feels desperate in this, obviously is in Japan best interests to support it, but at this point I don't think there is anything it can offer, if the worst come to happen Japan will give little more than declarations of how "regrettable" things are.
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Posted in: Opposition parties criticize Suga over results of summit with Biden See in context
Opposition criticizing Suga is like fishing on a barrel, but I haven't heard anything that they would do differently to correct the many problems of the current government. Put forward a real platform and criticism will be the cherry on top.
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Posted in: Sompo Japan offers 'workation' insurance products See in context
It is a small amount of support but hopefully the beginning of a trend where proper, regulated work from home can become a reality.
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Posted in: Will Japanese Olympians be vaccinated ahead of the public? See in context
I can already see the excuses that are going to be used for this, a slap in the face for the people waiting for months for a vaccine probably even with a smile.
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Posted in: Myanmar junta cracks down on celebrations of new shadow gov't See in context
This seems like a problem that will keep red hot for long time, the worst thing is that this is going to be repeated endlessly since interventions from other countries are never done with the best interest of the actual victims of the violence.
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Posted in: 9 kids injured in shooting at birthday party in Louisiana See in context
sad to see these kind of news, but even sadder that I know nothing will be done about the underlying problem that causes it.
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I'm not a doctor, but I'm sure doctors get dumb questions all the time, and this is just one case.…
Posted in: It's impossible to determine your personal COVID-19 risks and frustrating to try
Great, so long as FamilyMart staff aren't privy to the content of those Medicine packages.
Posted in: FamilyMart launches medicine pick-up pharmacy service
Smart move by Kishida! He needs to make it clear that Japan does not always agree with USA and has…
Posted in: Kishida sees need for dialogue with China's Xi
Time will tell, if one day no one is heard from in NK, then we will know the real situation...
Posted in: Widespread disbelief over N Korea's tiny COVID death rate