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During his Nov. 13 visit to Tokyo, U.S. President Barack Obama emphasized that Japan, as the world's second largest economy, has a special role in the global marketplace. One week later, it's becoming clear the country may be special for another reason. While much of the rest of the planet frets about a coming rise in inflation - a consequence of economic recovery, massive stimulus spending and a weakening dollar - Japan faces the opposite problem: a potentially devastating bout of deflation...
...painted a more troubling picture. The price of goods and services slid by 2.6% in the third quarter, the biggest drop since 1958. Consumer prices have dropped for seven straight months. "The recent price falls are not right and worrisome," Japan's Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said at a Nov. 20 press conference. "This is one of the major policy issues right now." Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan was even more blunt. He stated flatly this week that the country is "in a deflationary state." (See pictures of Japan in 1989 and Japan...
Combined, the findings led the panel to reverse their 2002 recommendations on mammography, which extended the advice, originally targeting women over 50, to also include women in their 40s. The new recommendations, published in the Nov. 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, once again leave out the younger women and suggest that those over 50 get screened biennially. But the recommendations do not instruct women under 50 never to get screened, says Dr. Diana Petitti, vice chair of the task force. The new guidelines were meant to trigger and inform discussion between women in their 40s and their...
...survey directors conducted a national poll between Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 to determine the prevalence of swine flu vaccine shortages and examine the opinions of adults who had tried to obtain the vaccination...
...report, published Nov. 10 in BMJ, a prestigious British medical journal, was a “meta-analysis,” which involves reconciling data from numerous past studies in order to form a general conclusion...