Category: Science and Health

After holding a hearing on Thursday morning with officials at Assuta’s private hospital in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hahayal, the Health Ministry ordered that its in-vitro fertilization unit must reduce its activity and that the hospital should appoint a senior expert from outside the medical center to supervise what is carried out, assist in updating procedures […]

Even before your children reached the age age two, you already knew that the famous tantrums everyone is talking about were coming. You may have met them earlier than you thought, around the age of one and a half. And now that your child is three years old, you are deep in the world of […]

Summer vacation is already here, and many families are going out and planning vacations in Israel and around the world. Despite the undoubtedly important purpose of family vacations, it is important to pay attention to a slightly less talked-about issue in relation to summer vacation – the increased risk of depression and anxiety. For many […]

The inflammatory response is indispensable for protective immunity, but microbial pathogens often trigger an excessive response called cytokine storm that is harmful to the host. Despite recent advances in our understanding of inflammatory signaling, how to prevent a cytokine storm remains a challenge.  Now, a “groundbreaking” study at the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew […]

Major progress could be made in fighting the vaping epidemic among teens and young adults – which is ubiquitous in Israel – if there was a complete restriction on sweet flavorings and cooling agents in both cartridge and disposable e-cigarette devices.  So say researchers from the Center for Tobacco Research at Ohio State University’s Comprehensive […]

The number of licensed guns that have been purchased by Israelis in recent months has skyrocketed due to the growing number of terror attacks and the easing by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of criteria to have them approved.  But how will children be discouraged from finding these weapons and using them, causing tragic injuries […]

Irritable bowel syndrome or IBS is one of the most common digestive system problems, affecting millions of people worldwide. Many patients’ symptoms might be caused by certain foods, and so the therapeutic strategy of nutritional manipulation has recently become quite popular.  FODMAP is just one of the diet plans that many people with IBS are […]

A bacterium named Cronobacter has been found in the Israeli production line of Materna Mehadrin (phase one) powdered milk formula for babies aged 0 to 6 months.  The Health Ministry and the company maintained that the abnormal findings were discovered as part of quality control at the factory and that the infected formula did not […]

A two-hour “protest strike” will be carried out on Wednesday by thousands of physicians on behalf of the leadership of the Israel Medical Association (IMA). The labor action will take place between 8.30 and 10.30 am in hospitals and clinics around the country, and information sessions for doctors and others will be during the first […]

People diagnosed with alcohol use disorder are frequently believed to have a higher tolerance to alcohol. However, according to a recent study, they may be even more impaired than normal after heavy drinking.  The findings of this study were published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. This research debunks some common […]