Author: Arsen Mayer

A four-year-old girl named Ayla who lives in the West Bank town of Kalkilya suffered during the past year from repeated brain events that caused paralysis and life-threatening symptoms. No hospitals in the territories were able to diagnose her condition correctly. Suddenly, her condition continued to deteriorate, and she suffered a stroke – a rare […]

Many parents ask themselves when their baby’s first step will be and are ready to record everything in an exciting video that will become a sweet memory.  The answer is very general, and the accepted range is between one year to 18 months, but some babies will walk earlier, some later. Even if it seems […]

Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC) has begun a first-of-its-kind pilot in the world of giving an injection to reduce the risk of breast cancer. When the results are compiled, the treatment could provide an alternative to the prophylactic mastectomy procedure that women carrying the BRCA1 gene mutation are required to undergo.  Women diagnosed as […]

A new study published in the journal PLOS One has shown that nearly one in five people in the UK suffer from misophonia – an auditory sensitivity or auditory disorder defined as “hatred of noise.” The researchers gave 772 participants a questionnaire according to which they could understand the intensity and complexity of misophonia while […]

There are an estimated 200 Israelis suffering from childhood onset schizophrenia (COS) – a severe and rare form of the psychiatric disorder that emerges before the age of 13. The role of genetics in schizophrenia is significant and widely studied in the common form of the disease that appears in adolescence or early adulthood, but […]

Smartphones have definitely changed the way we communicate, think and behave in almost every aspect of our lives.  It makes sense that scientists from numerous countries are constantly trying to understand how profound this effect is, and the positive and negative consequences on our health. Usually, the negative effects of smartphones are stressed and this […]

Potentially deadly fungal infections with Candida auris are spreading rapidly in US healthcare facilities, with cases nearly doubling between 2020 and 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The number of cases rose by 44% to 476 in 2019, up from 330 in 2018, and subsequently, 59% to 756 in 2020 and by […]

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a hybrid micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that can be controlled and navigated using either electricity or magnetism. The device is able to navigate among different cells in a biological sample, distinguish between different types of cells, identify whether they are healthy or dying and […]

When you close your eyes in total darkness, the color you see isn’t black, but a dark shade of gray sometimes called eigengrau.  The term’s origin is German, and it translates approximately to “significant gray” as eigen means “one’s own” and “grau” means “gray.” Why do we see this gray shade and not black?  When […]

If you can walk, but you cannot walk and talk at the same time, can mean you suffer from some sort of issue in the brain. A new study found that the ability to juggle the two tasks starts to lessen almost a decade earlier than what was previously assumed, while scientists say that this […]