English Diary 2026
March 7 "Japan's health ministry has announced formal approval for the domestic manufacture and sale of two products for the treatment of heart disease and Parkinson's disease using iPS cells. It means such treatments will be put to practical use for the first time in the world." "One of the products subject to Friday's announcement is cardiomyocyte sheet ReHeart. It was developed by University of Osaka startup Cuorips to treat ischemic cardiomyopathy, a serious heart disease." NHK WORLD-JAPAN News https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260306_17/ The news about iPS cells is remarkable. They say it may help solve heart disease and Parkinson’s disease. I wonder if it'll benefit me when I become old. I look forward to that future. Of course, I dislike hospitals, so I intend to maintain an extremely healthy lifestyle (laugh). Prevention is better than cure. It seems to me that health is a priceless and colossal asset, one that surpasses even ten bil...