Sending scuba divers down to survey corals is time-consuming and expensive. In recent years, scientists have developed other ...

A ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the official recognition of Niigata Minamata disease, a neurological disorder ...

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi expressed his displeasure over an incorrect description of Minamata disease mercury poisoning in ...

After repeated government requests, a home tutoring company apologized for wrongly teaching children that Minamata disease, a neurological disorder caused by mercury poisoning, is hereditary.

A major Japanese tutoring company has recently apologized for inaccurately describing the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease as hereditary in its online study material, a description that drew strong ...

Hundreds of people prayed for the victims of Minamata disease in a ceremony in southwestern Japan on Thursday, 69 years after the neurological disorder caused by polluted industrial wastewater was ...

Japan and Israel for its Decoy platform. These patents cover the use of Decoy bacteria compositions for preventing or treating Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – two ...

Minamata disease is methylmercury poisoning that leads to neurological symptoms. The condition develops after a person has been eating heavily contaminated seafood daily. The first record of ...

Minamata disease, also known as Chisso-Minamata disease ... by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on 10 October 2013 in Japan and was opened for signature from then on. The objective of the ...

Japan's Ministry of the Environment, in a booklet concerning Minamata disease, said it was "unprecedented in human history in terms of health damage," which left behind "adverse effects across the ...

Minamata disease, first diagnosed in 1956, was later linked to the consumption of seafood from the Minamata Bay on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, where Chisso dumped mercury compounds.