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...mammography for all women over 50. As of 2005, only 7% of women follow that recommendation. The price tag of a single machine is about $262,000, and a mammogram generally costs a patient $90 out of her own pocket. Says Dr. Fujio Kasumi, breast-cancer chief at Juntendo University Hospital: "People don't do [tests], thinking it's a waste of money...
...December 6, 1997, issue of The Lancet, an international medical journal published in Great Britain, Dr. Keiichi Hiramatsu of Tokyo's Juntendo Hospital reported that 20 percent of all staphylococcus aureus has become resistant to vancomycin, the only universal drug for the bacteria. It afflicts nearly one million of the 23 million Americans who undergo surgery annually, especially infants and the elderly...
Though no cause-and-effect relationship between economic and physical ills ^ can be proved, Japanese medical experts do not consider the notion as farfetched as it sounds. Almost any disease can be exacerbated by tension. Observes Dr. Ryozo Okada, a professor of medicine at Tokyo's Juntendo University: "When faced with a sudden change in the business climate, those who are not capable of dealing with a new situation internalize stress, push themselves beyond limits and die suddenly...
...Juntendo University, Suruga, 52, explained his special interest in biliary atresia: for reasons unknown it is far more common in Asia than in Western countries. Suruga's early techniques for correcting the condition proved to be only palliative, not curative. In 1968 he hit upon a method that he has since used in 40 cases, with 30 children now surviving. It was a variation of this technique that he used for William...
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