Category: Science and Health

The Israeli special needs community has been devastated by the loss of several of its own during the Hamas massacre on October 7, while the trauma and disruptions of the war cause on-going hardships, both emotional and practical. Israelis with special needs and those who love them are struggling to find ways to cope. When […]

Horrific images were plastered all over the media when Israeli communities along the Gaza border came under attack on October 7. For residents of these communities, the images will forever be etched in their minds. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org “When they rescued them, they had to go through a […]

According to an analysis conducted by NapLab, a company specializing in mattresses, Israel ranks 33 out of 45 countries on the Global Permissiveness Index. The index measures a country’s level of sexual permissiveness based on factors such as the average age of virginity loss, number of sexual partners, prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases, acceptance of […]

The connection between stress and skin diseases has long been recognized in the medical field. Many of us have experienced emotional distress and mental strain, which can manifest as visible skin problems. We are all familiar with those moments of stress and crisis when pimples or sores suddenly appear on our skin. For individuals with […]

As everyone in Israel scrambled to process the horrific trauma that unfolded on Saturday, October 7 – the barbaric massacre in the South and barrages of incoming missiles from Gaza that propelled Israel into an immediate state of war – parents went into autopilot mode. Just as they began to process the communal pain of […]

Raz Shapira, a nurse at Soroka Medical Center, was suspended from her post at the hospital after she published posts on social networks in which she called for the reporting of medical staff members in Israel who expressed support of the October 7 massacre.  “We must deal with the supporters of terrorism here,” she wrote.  […]

To allow a continuous supply of food to Israel, the Health Ministry will temporarily not enforce the marking of stickers with the red food symbol (for too salty, sweet or fatty products) and or the marking of mineral water bottles in Hebrew. As a result, products of the same type may be found on the […]

More than half of medical students and more than 45% of doctors in Israel and many other countries are women. Yet a US study has found that fewer than 20% of physicians’ roles in movies are portrayed by females, giving a skewed view of the profession. In the 2009 film Gifted Hands, which was based […]

The Treasury must immediately allocate significant amounts of money for rehabilitation hospitals where they are especially lacking, in Jerusalem and the North, said Knesset Health Committee chairman MK Yonatan Mashriki. The shortage of rehabilitation beds was serious even before the war, but now it is much worse, the Shas MK said on Wednesday during the […]

A total of nine cases of measles cases were discovered in Tel Aviv last month, according to the Health Ministry, whose epidemiologists found a connection among all of them. Although those infected were considered mild cases with a rash and fever, the virus is very contagious and may lead to severe and even life-threatening complications.  […]