Category: Science and Health

Nervous when you see an epidermic needle, even if the shot can save your life? A significant link between behavioral stress and the effectiveness of vaccines has been demonstrated for the first time in mouse models by Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers.   They found that acute stress in mice nine to 12 days after […]

The Health Ministry’s annual national program for quality indicators takes the pulse of the country’s health system, with its main goals the promotion of quality care in key and selected areas and presenting the results to the public.  The new indices this year include polyp detection index in colonoscopy performed in general hospitals; pain assessment […]

Shoham Cohen and Yitzchak (Tzachi) Lavi, graduates of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Sami Shamoon College of Engineering in Beersheba recently developed an automatic device for disinfecting blood pressure cuffs called CleanCuff. This innovative product is designed to reduce nosocomial infections (infections acquired in medical centers) among hospitalized patients, relieve the burden on […]

In a recent study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Boston, Massachusettes, researchers suggest that people looking to maintain mental sharpness as they age might benefit from substituting margarine with olive oil. The preliminary study, which involved more than 90,000 US health professionals, found that individuals who favored olive […]

After years of trying to diagnose exactly what long COVID is, recent research has narrowed it down to just a handful of symptoms. Whereas previously there were over 200 symptoms thought to be linked to long COVID, there is now a clearly defined list of the 12 most common and consistent ones. Ever since the […]

European drug safety officials opened an investigation recently regarding Ozempic after patients receiving the popular weight-loss injections reported thoughts of suicide or self-harm. On July 10, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) told Reuters it was investigating negative side effects of the popular drug, which is generally intended to treat diabetes after Iceland’s health regulator reported […]

Reducing social media usage by 15 minutes a day can have dramatically beneficial impacts on a person’s health, a new study published on February 8 found.  The open access peer-reviewed study, published in the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, addressed a gap in academic research on the benefits reducing social media usage can have.  […]

For many years, people who suffer from fibromyalgia never got any sort of proper response from medical professionals. They were all told that they were healthy people who had pain, and it was just something they had to live with. But today, this is fortunately no longer the case. “Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome […]

“Children want dolls they can relate to, dolls that look like them,” says Tami Gutman, a special education teacher at ADI Jerusalem. ADI is an acronym for “ability, diversity, inclusion.” “For children with severe disabilities and complex medical conditions, dolls that mirror their life situations are not available in neighborhood toy stores, so I decided […]

Fats are divided into two types: One kind that is beneficial for heart health, such as vegetable oils and fatty fish, and the other kind, types that are harmful to the heart, like animal fats such as meat and hydrogenated fats. The German Nutrition Association explained that the fats that are beneficial for heart health […]