Category: Science and Health

A 57-year-old man in serious condition with advanced lung cancer has been treated successfully for the first time for acute hypoglycemia at the Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem. The “scientific breakthrough” will be good news for patients worldwide, according to Prof. Gil Leibowitz of the hospital’s Diabetes Research Center. The man, who suffered […]

Have you ever wondered how drinks at your favorite fast food chains are made? One TikTok user and McDonald’s employee  exposed the creative process behind how the fast food chain’s iced tea. This user even claims the drink is a lot sweeter than most customers would expect. According to TikTok user @gia2bad, who posted a […]

Our hair is exposed to various damages due to changes in the weather, frequent friction with clothes, and the use of perms, straighteners, and hair dyes. All these, and more, cause its edges to split, which requires cutting them once in a while. Hair grows at a rate of one centimeter per month, or 12 […]

In a recent development, the health insurance predicament faced by Ukrainian refugees in Israel is on the verge of being resolved. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitri Kuleba confirmed in a tweet on Monday, “I’ve had a conversation with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who assured me that health insurance for Ukrainians in Israel will remain in […]

Meeting a stranger in a social encounter – at work, for a blind date, or at a family event – often makes people nervous and have false expectations. People tend to evaluate themselves as better than they actually are. Such enhanced positive evaluation occurs not only for the self, but also for others.  Self-enhancement is […]

As human beings, we are wired from birth for social connection. We smile, coo in a higher pitched voice, and even nurse our young from a perfect focal length for optimal mother-infant bonding. With time and as we age, however, we have become increasingly more isolated and disconnected. This is especially true in our post-COVID […]

An American minor was recently infected with the swine flu A (H1N2) variant virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Saturday. The child, from Michigan, caught the virus at an agriculture fair. Swine flu is a zoonotic disease that circulates among the pig population in many parts of the world. Humans generally catch it […]

The Lancet, one of Britain’s most prestigious medical journals, is no less interested in Israeli physicians’ worries about the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform than our own doctors are. It has just published an article by Israelis and an expert from Washington, DC that calls it a “threat to the Health in All Policies Approach” (HiAP) […]

Microwaving your baby’s bottle may be exposing them to high levels of harmful micro- and nanoplastics, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, examined how baby food containers release micro- and nanoplastics under different conditions and the possible health effects of such plastic particles. Researchers from […]

United Hatzalah released a YouTube video this week starring founder Eli Beer cautioning parents against leaving children in hot cars and driving the point home by cooking Beer’s own schnitzel recipe using the heat of a closed car. In the video, Beer, pretends to be hosting a cooking show until he reaches the frying stage […]