Protecting Women's Health and Next Generation Lives

Hirohisa Kurachi
Professor
Obstetrics and Gynecology Course
Faculty of Medicine

▲Injecting sperm into ovum (microscope insemination)

Live Long in Good Health

Japan faces the serious problem of an aging population and low birth rate. People increasingly tend to get married late and the number of children a woman gives birth to in her life is declining. Japanese women's average life expectancy is the longest in the world. What is important is to live long happily in good health.

▲PET-CT image of ovary cancer

Obstetrical/Gynecological Examinations

Obstetrics/gynecology can be divided into women's medicine that treats perinatal matters like pregnancy and childbirth, gynecological cancer, infertility, and menopausal and geriatric health, and medicine to protect the health of women of all ages and the lives of the next generations. Obstetrics/gynecology thus has a great bearing on Japan's future social and economic bases. We treat high-risk pregnancies and childbirths and also many gynecological cancer patients in the prefecture.

▲Ultrasound picture of the face of a fetus

Our Research

Our laboratory is doing research to solve the problem of ovary cancer's tolerization to anticancer drugs. We are also researching the relationship between obesity and the metabolic syndrome of middle-aged/older women and female hormones.