Beyond Flowers and Brunches: How One Mumbai Hospital Is Redefining What Mother's Day Should Mean

India, May 28 -- Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 5: Rohini Kulkarni's children had the dinner reservation made a week in advance. Her daughter had ordered flowers. Her son had picked out a card. Everything was in place for a Mother's Day that looked, from the outside, exactly as it should.What no one had planned what no one had thought to ask was when Rohini had last seen a doctor for herself.Every Mother's Day, families across India express love in countless ways: flowers, messages, dinners, ...


Clinical Trial: A Study on Early Morning Fasting Blood Glucose Variability in Patients Using isCGM (Japan)

Tokyo, May 29 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061722) titled 'A Study Examining Pre-Breakfast Blood Glucose Variability in Patients Using Continuous Glucose Monitors' on May 28. Study Type: Interventional Study Design: Basic Design - Single arm Randomization - Non-randomized Blinding - Open -no one is blinded Control - Uncontrolled Primary Sponsor: Institute - JCHO Tokuyama Central Hospital Condition: Condition - Diabetes Classif...


Clinical Trial: Risk Assessment of Delayed Bleeding After Gastric Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in Patients Receiving Anticoagulants and Validation of the Supplemented Guidelines for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Patients Undergoing Antithrombotic Therapy: A Multicenter Observational Study (Japan)

Tokyo, May 29 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061720) titled 'Risk Assessment of Delayed Bleeding After Gastric Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in Patients Receiving Anticoagulants and Validation of the Supplemented Guidelines for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Patients Undergoing Antithrombotic Therapy: A Multicenter Observational Study' on May 28. Study Type: Observational Primary Sponsor: Institute - National Hospital Organizati...


Clinical Trial: Psychological Intervention for disputing irrational beliefs associated with stress amongst Tourism Educators and Mathematicians with hypertension (Japan)

Tokyo, May 29 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061715) titled 'Psychological Intervention for disputing irrational beliefs associated with stress amongst Tourism Educators and Mathematicians with hypertension' on May 28. Study Type: Interventional Study Design: Basic Design - Parallel Randomization - Randomized Blinding - Single blind -participants are blinded Control - Active Primary Sponsor: Institute - University of Nigeria Con...


Clinical Trial: Myoelectric hand prosthesis for congenital transverse failure (Japan)

Tokyo, May 29 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061714) titled 'Prosthesis for congenital transverse failure' on May 28. Study Type: Interventional Study Design: Basic Design - Single arm Randomization - Non-randomized Blinding - Open -no one is blinded Control - Uncontrolled Primary Sponsor: Institute - National Center for Child Health and Development Condition: Condition - Congenital transverse failure Classification by malignanc...


Clinical Trial: Effects of consumption of the test food on the gut microbial metabolites in healthy adults (Japan)

Tokyo, May 29 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061610) titled 'Effects of consumption of the test food on the gut microbial metabolites in healthy adults' on May 28. Study Type: Interventional Study Design: Basic Design - Cross-over Randomization - Randomized Blinding - Open -no one is blinded Control - Placebo Primary Sponsor: Institute - Fujicco Co., Ltd. Condition: Condition - Healthy Japanese subjects Classification by maligna...


Clinical Trial: Effects of Forefoot Design of Ankle-Foot Orthoses on Gait Mechanics: A Pilot Study (Japan)

Tokyo, May 28 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061708) titled 'Pilot study investigating the effects of forefoot design of ankle-foot orthoses on gait' on May 28. Study Type: Interventional Study Design: Basic Design - Cross-over Randomization - Randomized Blinding - Open -no one is blinded Control - No treatment Primary Sponsor: Institute - Seijoh University Condition: Condition - Healthy adults Classification by malignancy - Oth...


Clinical Trial: Study to investigate the effects of incretin drugs on depression, quality of life, and eating habits in Type 2 diabetes and obesity (Japan)

Tokyo, May 28 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061705) titled 'Study to investigate the effects of incretin drugs on depression, quality of life, and eating habits in Type 2 diabetes and obesity' on May 28. Study Type: Observational Primary Sponsor: Institute - Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center Condition: Condition - Diabetes, Obesity Classification by malignancy - Others Genomic infor...


JAPAN-PHILIPPINES SUMMIT MEETING AND DINNER (SUMMARY)

TOKYO, May 28 -- Prime Minister and His Cabinet issued the following information: [Provisional translation] On May 28, commencing at 5:50 p.m. for approximately 60 minutes, Ms. TAKAICHI Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan, held a summit meeting with H.E. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr., President of the Republic of the Philippines, who is visiting Japan as a state guest, followed by Joint Press Announcement and a dinner. In addition,the two leaders issued a joint statement outlining future cooperat...


NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN JAPAN - IN HONOR OF CHILDREN'S DAY -

TOKYO, May 28 -- Statistics Bureau issued the following news: May 28, 2026 No.379 In Japan, May 5 is a national holiday called Children's Day. Children's Day is designated as a day to respect children's personalities, to promote their happiness, and for appreciating their mothers. The SBJ estimated the number of children (population under 15 years old, hereafter referred to as "number of children") as of April 1, 2026, in honor of Children's Day. - The number of children was 13.29 million, ...