Category: Science and Health

The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation marked the start of Global Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2023 by announcing on Sunday that they would soon award six individuals with the inaugural “GamAni Prize” – an award recognizing exceptional individuals making profound contributions to the fight against breast cancer in Israel. The Gam Ani Prize is […]

Nearly three-quarters of dementia cases can be prevented, according to a recent study that examined 210 potential risk factors. Among these factors, researchers identified 62 preventable ones, categorized into six groups. These factors are estimated to contribute to 47-73% of dementia cases. Excessive TV viewing and inadequate sleep (less than seven hours or more than […]

Approximately one million Israelis endure the debilitating effects of migraines, which disrupt their daily routines. Many migraine sufferers claim that extreme weather changes and intense heat act as potent triggers for migraine attacks. Is there a tangible link between weather conditions and migraines? Doctor Arie Kuritzky, a neurology specialist, the director of a headache clinic […]

Vegetarians think they decided to forgo eating meat, fish, and poultry because they oppose killing animals, religious, environmental or health reasons, or simply because grains, fruits, vegetables and are most tasty.  A substantial body of evidence points to the heritability of dietary preferences. While vegetarianism has been practiced for millennia in various societies, its practitioners […]

Diagnostic errors in medicine can have devastating consequences, affecting millions of people each year. Studies conducted in high-income countries reveal that nearly 5% of adults experience medical diagnosis errors annually, with more than half of them potentially resulting in severe harm. Moreover, experts believe that the rate of misdiagnosis in low-income countries could be even […]

Women are programmed to quickly respond to their baby’s cries. Now, researchers at New York University (NYU) have found that, at least in lab mice, hearing the sound of a newborn’s wail can trigger the release of oxytocin – a brain chemical that controls breast milk release in mothers. The researchers found that once prompted, […]

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October is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month. During this month, as with all other months, the Israel Rett Syndrome Association (IRSA), makes special efforts to highlight the genetic condition. “Rett syndrome is a severe rare genetic neurological disorder that occurs almost exclusively in girls, more rarely in boys, and leads to severe impairments, affecting nearly every […]

After an Israeli citizen contracted Dengue fever during a trip abroad, Israel is preparing to eliminate populations of the mosquito responsible for the disease.

Unlike the rare type of dementia called familial Alzheimer’s, which is caused by genetic mutations and runs in families, the most common type is sporadic, whose underlying mechanism has not been well understood.  It was named after the German psychiatrist and neuropathologist in 1906 Dr. Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in a 51-year-old woman […]