Author: Arsen Mayer

An unhealthy lifestyle may increase your likelihood of needing assisted living services when you get older, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Sydney. The peer-reviewed study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, examined how factors such as smoking, physical activity, sitting, sleep, and diet affected the chances […]

Children in Afghanistan are being given a chance to survive a potentially deadly eye cancer through an extraordinary international effort led by an Israeli team working with medical centers in Pakistan. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan has formal diplomatic relations with Israel. Doctors from Sheba Medical […]

A 30-year-old listener who appeared on Dr. Maya Roseman’s show on 103FM asked if he had to add carbohydrates to his training menu. The listener shared his concern: “I got fit, I have a 3D six-pack but my muscle mass is very low,” and wondered what the solution was: ” Do I need carbohydrates to […]

Coronavirus cases began rising this week as a new variant begins to make waves with a significant uptick in hospitalizations due to the virus. The variant called BA.2.86 was first detected in the United States, Denmark, and Israel last week. Additional cases were detected in the UK which were highly similar to the sample found […]

This challenging puzzle has left many social media users perplexed.

There are various optical illusions, some tricking the mind and others revealing hidden aspects of your personality. The next drawing can unveil your personality type, depending on what you see first. You can see a rocky mountain in a desert landscape in the photo. However, some surfers noticed a massive foot in the desert. This […]

A year-and-a half ago, a neurosurgeon at Stanford University in California placed two tiny sensors as small as baby aspirin in the brain of Pat Bennett, now 68, a former human-resources director and onetime horseback rider who also jogged daily. In 2012, she was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease), a […]

The many jars and boxes of fish-oil supplements on shelves of Israeli pharmacies and health-food stores show how popular they are, even though they aren’t cheap.  People have been persuaded that these food supplements can prevent heart disease and other ailments – but new study at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas […]

Males who feel they are misunderstood – by their wives or all women in the world – can now heave a sigh of relief. For decades, the Y chromosome – one of the two human sex chromosomes – has been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure. […]

For years, ketamine served as a potent anesthetic, and in recent decades, it gained popularity as a recreational drug. However, a recent breakthrough has transformed its role: ketamine is emerging as a potent tool for treating severe, treatment-resistant depression that conventional medications fail to address. A recent extensive study published in the prestigious New England […]