Category: Science and Health

More than one out of five Israeli adults provide care without financial compensation for their relatives and others who suffer from disabilities – and some take care of more than one person. This investment in caregiving impacts their ability to work for pay in the labor market, and many of the 1.2 million caregivers are […]

Millions of nurses around the world will celebrate International Nurses Day on May 12 to mark the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, who has been credited with being the founder of modern nursing. The British nurse, statistician and social reformer, who lived from 1820 to 1910, is best known for caring for thousands […]

Celebrities in the modern age have a superpower in that the minute they mention something it turns into a global trend that everyone starts following. This has happened with actor and activist Ashton Kutcher several times already, like when he said that he and his wife Mila Kunis don’t bathe their two kids daily, and […]

The Mayo Clinic is expanding its distributed data network known as Mayo Clinic Platform Connect to Sheba, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (Brazil) and the University Health Network (Canada).

Einat Dado Baralia founded the “Shir Lachaim” (Shir, also ‘song,’ for Life) organization together with her husband Asaf and some friends, after the death of her son Shir at the end of a one-year-long struggle with neuroblastoma cancer when he was only two years and three months old. “We will help to find a breakthrough […]

World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Saturday that the “global emergency” created by the COVID-19 pandemic has ended. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry announced that a total of 12,500 people have died in Israel from the pandemic since the first victim – 88-year-old Holocaust survivor Aryeh Even – died on March 21, […]

We all grew up and were educated in a way that sanctifies the monogamous relationship in movies, books and poetry, so many people feel like they’ve really failed in view of the complex reality of a relationship and managing difficult periods. Some couples know that there may be more than one way to live a […]

The irises of Northern Gannets, a type of seabird, turn black if they recover from highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to a new pre-print study published last week. Northern Gannets were one of the species severely impacted by the ongoing bird flu outbreak affecting Europe and the Americas. The study, which has not yet […]

For the first time ever, surgery was performed on a fetus’s brain while it was inside the womb, and the procedure was documented in a recent study. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Stroke on Thursday, documented the process that doctors took to repair a malformed blood vessel in the fetus’s brain. The procedure […]

 A 28-year-old resident of Haifa was found dead last Thursday in a reported suicide, with her 10-month-old toddler beside her. Sources believe that this incident was a result of postpartum depression. Following this tragedy, the issue resurfaced, gaining national attention. Dr. Sharon Pelagi, a psychologist at Maccabi Health Services, helped readers better understand what postpartum […]