Author: Arsen Mayer

A man who has lived in an iron lung for 65 years has explained how he was forbidden to marry his first love but, against all odds, he still managed to find love. Paul Alexander contracted polio at the age of six, causing paralysis. He underwent a tracheostomy in the hospital, an operation where a […]

If the warning of the head of public health services of the United States, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who recently stated that he believes that 13 is too young for kids to be on social media platforms, didn’t worry you, maybe this study will. Allowing babies to watch tablets and television may harm their […]

A series of studies have found that consuming caffeine about an hour before physical activity improves performance – an interesting development ahead of the Tel Aviv Marathon on Friday, February 24th. Caffeine and athletic endurance have come hand-in-hand for many years. Numerous studies have found that caffeine consumption can boost physical endurance during high-intensity exercises […]

A new meta-analysis of 12 studies by the UK’s Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – which assesses the effectiveness and safety of a treatment, vaccine, device, preventative measure, procedure or policy – found that face masks worn in the community “probably made little or no difference to the outcome of influenza-like illness or COVID-19-like illness […]

When the Hebrew month of Adar begins, as it did this week, it traditionally launches a time of joy because the holiday of Purim is just around the corner. But it’s not a happy time when small children swallow plastic explosives used for cap pistols that are sold illegally. A seven-month-old baby, who swallowed such […]

Eleven days ago, representatives of 25 Israeli public health organizations sent a strong letter of protest to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, denouncing his declared intention not to raise the tax on electronic cigarettes (e-cigs).  “This will lead to an unprecedented smoking epidemic in Israel, especially among teenagers,” they wrote, with copies to the chairman of […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being promoted as being able to do almost everything – from diagnosing diseases as well as newly graduated physicians to writing speeches and producing art in seconds. Yet a new study from New York University (NYU) shows that infants outperform AI in detecting what motivates other people’s actions and are more […]

Stress is a well-known phenomenon that can be caused by numerous problems in our lives. Besides emotional difficulties, the body can also react to a stress response with physical problems such as an infection, sugar imbalance or insomnia.  In both mental stress and physical stress, the body’s hormonal response to stress is the same, and […]

In what is thought to be the first case of its kind anywhere in the world, a 34-year-old American man was hospitalized after swallowing a banana wrapped in a condom in the midst of a hormonal rage. In a case report published earlier in the academic journal Cureus, the patient, whose name has been withheld […]

Brain metastases are among the deadliest forms of cancers that spread (metastasize) in the body. They are two to 10 times more common than tumors of the central nervous system (CNS). Despite the progress achieved in recent years in the development of novel treatments for melanoma and breast cancer, brain metastasis remains highly lethal in […]