Japanese Medical Journal

Marion Friedman. Ft. Col. Theodore E. Woodward, M.C. Maryland Medical Journal. 44, no. 11 (Nov. 1995) 942-943, 977-978. Source for hand-spraying diagram Mickey Finn drops Naples epidemic and Japanese occupation. 

Japanese researchers have reported that adding Rohypnol to an existing drug therapy regimen helps correct severe sleep disturbances in children with epilepsy. Also, fewer seizures were reported when Rohypnol was used along with epilepsy therapy. The study appeared in the medical journal Brain Development in 1995. 

Wamai, R.G. (2009) Reviewing Ethiopia s health system development International medical community, Japanese Medical Association Journal, 52 (4), 279-86. 

Child psychiatry in Japan has a relatively long history of its own. In the 1950s, several medical schools started child psychiatric services in their departments of psychiatry, primarily through child psychiatrists who had trained in the United States. In 1959, clinical psychiatrists and allied professionals who were interested in mental health and disorders of children first established the Japanese Society of Child Psychiatry. This society published the first issue of the Japanese Journal of Child Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines in 1960, the same year as the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines in the United Kingdom, a year ahead of the Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry in the United States, and well over 30 years before European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 

Kawanaka, M., Hayashi, S. and Carter, C.E. (1986) Uptake and excretion of amino acids and utilization of glucose by Schistosoma japonicum eggs. Japanese Journal of Medical Sciences and Biology 39, 199-206. 

Merck s blockbuster arthritis drug Vioxx, in fact, got its start at a lecture, according to a story in the Asian Wall Street Journal in January 2001. At a medical conference in Montreal in 1992, Peppi Prasit, then a medicinal chemist at Merck, noticed a display from a Japanese company about a painkiller that supposedly didn t upset the stomach but that, unfortunately, wasn t chemically appropriate for people. Prasit knew that Merck was looking for a painkiller without stomach problems. So he went back to his lab and started to concoct it. 

Ginkgo (Ginkgo hiloha) has shown activity in increasing peripheral and cerebral circulation. Recent studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed a protective effect for ginkgo for people with Alzheimer s disease. One Japanese study (Kobayashi et al, 1993) claims that a 70 percent alcohol extract of this herb applied topically stimulated hair growth in shaved laboratory mice. No other studies have found this activity, but it does suggest a possible new use for ginkgo. 

Nihon Seika Gakkai, the Japanese Biochemical Society, is associated with the Department of Biochemistry, Medical School, Tokyo University. The society publishes Seikugaku, Biochemistry Ji-, 12). Nippon Butsuri Gakkai, the Society of Japanese Physicists, dates its origin to 1877. With a roster of over 2000 members, it publishes Nippon Butsuri Gakkai shi, the Journal of the Society of Physicists 11). 

H. Takeda, Y. Matsumura, T. Okada, S. Kuwata, and M. Inoue. 1998. A Japanese approach to estabhsh an electronic patient record system in an intelligent hospital. International Journal of Medical Informatics 49 45-51. 

Matayoshi, M., Saito, M., Electrical Safety and Reliability of Health Care Facilities Equipped with Class 1 Equipment—Safety Limit for Occurrence of Single-Fault Conditions and Its Maintenance, Japanese Journal of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 2,1980, pp. 105-111. 

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