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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate new
Typhoon exposure and excess deaths in Japan, 2010–2019, by age and local vulnerability
Typhoon winds were linked to 2,426 excess deaths among Japanese adults aged 70 and over, against 301 recorded direct deaths.
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Health todayCancer refines
HPV-attributable fraction in oropharyngeal cancer rose in seven countries over a decade
Central testing of 6,043 head and neck cancer specimens found HPV attributability in oropharyngeal cancer rose in all seven countries.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record new
Hypertension prevalence in Japan projected to 2040 using a Bayesian Lee-Carter model
Crude hypertension prevalence in Japan is projected to stay near 47% in men to 2040; untreated or uncontrolled cases fall.
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Health todayCancer new
Cancer in Japanese adults aged 85 and over rose more than four-fold between 1995 and 2020
Registry data show cancer cases in the oldest-old rising 5.9% a year, reaching 15.7% of all Japanese cases by 2020.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection refines
Friend isolation, not family isolation, is linked to mortality in disaster survivors
Among 9311 earthquake survivors followed 5.9 years, isolation from friends was associated with an adjusted hazard ratio for death of 1.28.
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Health todayHeart and stroke new
Japanese romosozumab starters had less recent heart attack or stroke than other users
Among 311,585 Japanese patients starting romosozumab between 2019 and 2023, 11.7% of men and 7.9% of women had a myocardial infarction or stroke in the prior 360 days, below the 8.9-17.6% among users of other osteoporosis drugs, and those with such a history discontinued more often.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate new
Daily cancer deaths in Japan were 0.88% higher per 10 micrograms/m3 of PM2.5
A 10 microgram per cubic metre rise in PM2.5 was associated with 0.88% more cancer deaths in Japan, though the association did not survive adjustment for NO2 or SO2.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record refines
Pandemic excess deaths were partly offset by a death deficit in 2024 and 2025
Across 38 countries with reliable death registration, excess deaths of 1.99-2.88 million in 2020-2023 were followed by a deficit of 0.39-1.08 million in 2024-2025.
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Health todayDementia confirms
Two in five memory-clinic patients with subjective complaints were amyloid-positive
In 194 consecutive memory-clinic patients, amyloid PET positivity rose from 40.9% in those with subjective complaints to 91.7% in those with early Alzheimer's disease, with MRI adding nothing.
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Behavioural scienceSmoking and vaping confirms
Current smokers had twice the odds of missing lung screening follow-up
In a Japanese community programme, 19.3% of abnormal low-dose CT screens had no documented follow-up within a year, with current smokers at twice the odds of former smokers.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record new
21-valent pneumococcal vaccine could prevent 1.5-1.7 times as many cases as 20-valent
National surveillance and a multicentre pneumonia study in Japan estimate the 21-valent pneumococcal vaccine could prevent 1.5-1.7 times as many cases as the 20-valent in adults aged 65 and over.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record refines
Healthy working life at 50 averages 11 years across 28 countries
Across 175,318 adults aged 50 and over in 28 countries, 10.98 of the 33.59 years of life expectancy remaining at age 50 were spent both healthy and in work.
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