Author: Arsen Mayer

The Rambam Medical Center in Haifa began setting up a quarantined clinic on Sunday for Israelis suspected of being exposed to the Ebola virus, according to KAN news. The clinic will be set up in an isolated, underground parking lot. 300 medical staff members are being trained on how to treat Ebola patients. The clinic […]

An Ebola case has been confirmed in Jinja in eastern Uganda, the country’s health minister said on Sunday, the first time the outbreak has spread to a new region of the country from central Uganda where cases have been confined so far. Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious and deadly hemorrhagic fever […]

The Israeli Pharmacists Association warned of a severe shortage of drugs – including Ritalin, medicine used for the treatment of heart and blood vessels issues, and drugs for the treatment of skin problems – in a letter sent to Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash on Monday. “At any given […]

Breast cancer is the most common malignant disease in Israel and the Western world. One out of eight Israeli women contract it during their lifetime, and about 4,500 are diagnosed with and 900 die of it every year.   The number of women who recover from this malignancy is steadily on the rise, thanks to […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of machines to perform certain tasks ״intelligently,” which is often based on the intelligence and expertise of humans. But what if humans lack the expertise to train the machines? This is often the case in drug development, explained Noam Solomon, CEO and co-founder of Immunai.  “Fewer than 10% of […]

I never would have believed that we could have reached maximum potential occupancy in our apartment, but over the holidays we managed to have 14 people – eight adults and six children under the age of six, including a newborn and a four-month-old – sharing our space, day and night. As the last children get […]

Peptides are short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds, the name given to chemical bonds formed between two molecules when the carboxyl group – a combination of two functional groups attached to a single carbon atom – of one molecule reacts with the amino group of the other molecule. A new Israeli/Japanese study […]

Let’s start with what’s definite: feelings are the key to building a relationship.  We fall in love with someone, are excited to see and talk to them, feel safe with and talk to them and are excited to dream together about the future. On the other hand, emotions are also the key to a bad […]

Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa announced Wednesday that they have opened emergency rooms to deal with the possibility of atomic, chemical or biological warfare in the future. The emergency rooms, which will also treat patients dealing with injuries and physical trauma as a result of earthquakes,  were dedicated by billionaire philanthropist George Schaeffer at […]

Half the country was upset by the result of last week’s Knesset election and some may have even lost sleep over it. Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston who conducted just-publicized research on the US elections in 2020 found that such political events can have dramatic global impacts on psychological health […]