Category: Science and Health

The High Court of Justice is now reviewing an appeal against several government ministries for not acting to prevent harmful second-hand smoke (SHS) caused by neighbors who smoke in balconies, houses, yards, or next to windows. The ministries are required to present their sides on this prickly issue to the court by the end of […]

Adults tend to develop biases that they hold dearly and do not easily abandon them even when the facts prove otherwise. But can children be saved from developing prejudices? How do Israeli youngsters who are part of the majority feel about Arabs, former immigrants from Russia or Ethiopia or ultra-Orthodox and how do the religiously […]

Children can be exposed to lead in various places – from chewing on furniture or flaky walls coated with lead paint to consumer products including food cans, spices, cosmetics, toys, food, water pipes, food cans, spices, cosmetics, and traditional medicines, as well as “invisible” exposures such as contaminated air, water, and even the mud children […]

The Tzafon Medical Center in Tiberias has been allowed by the Health Ministry to implant artificial left-ventrical-assist devices (LVADs) into the chest of cardiac patients whose own hearts are too weak to function and were at the end-stage of heart failure.   The LVAD helps pump blood from the lower left heart chamber, called the […]

Phthalates – a type of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) – are everywhere. They are commonly found in hundreds of products we encounter in our homes and elsewhere every day, including personal care products like soaps, shampoos, hair sprays; vinyl flooring; lubricating oils; polyvinyl chloride plastics used to plastic packaging, medical tubing, and garden hoses.  These chemicals […]

The Health Ministry, which over the years has been very lax in fighting conventional tobacco and electronic cigarettes, issued on Monday a request for public comments on an “action plan for all tobacco and smoking products.” It included plans to eventually prohibit smoking under the age of 21 and not just under 18 as it […]

Researchers may have found a new innovative method to test for warning signs of cardiovascular diseases, a new study published on August 18 found.  The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal Frontiers in Oral Health, found that elevated white blood cells in the saliva of health young adults could be an early warning sign […]

Two weeks ago, 38-year-old Tatiana Cohen and her husband arrived at a hotel in Tel Aviv to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, but that romantic night turned into a battle for the lives of Tatiana and the baby in her uterus.  “We went out to a restaurant together that evening and when we came back […]

A study by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has discovered that people aged 65 and over who have received vaccinations are significantly less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. The study highlighted the importance of vaccinations for protecting against infectious diseases and dementia. The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s […]

There is no reason to worry now about the new strain of COVID-19 called BA.2.86 that is being tracked by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), says Prof. Hagai Levine, a senior epidemiologist at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine and head of […]