Category: Science and Health

Yad L’Olim had devised a new system to improve access to healthcare for Jews who have made aliyah to Israel from around the world, the Israeli immigrant advocacy group’s government relations department announced this week. Under the new government budget, funds will be dedicated to ensuring that healthcare facilities are able to recruit medical experts […]

A century-old movie starring Charlie Chaplin has helped researchers at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in Ramat Gan and the Paris Brain Institute to study the neural substrate of humor using a new tool. Until now, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that measures the small changes in blood flow that occur with brain activity has been the […]

A child conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) at Assuta Medical Center in Ramat Hachayal, Tel Aviv has seemingly been found not to have a genetic link to his father, raising concerns that the hospital mixed up sperm samples during the IVF process, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Assuta stated that in the past few […]

Although the COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased Israeli mortality rates in the last two years, when these are excluded, the death rate in Israel in 2020 was the lowest for males and second lowest for females among eight countries including the US, Britain and Germany. This was revealed by the a new, 107-page, Hebrew-language report by […]

Haifa researchers have found a non-genetic cause for alopecia areata baldness, which triggered the surprising incident at the the 94th Academy Awards in which actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock after he joked about Smiths wife’s shaved head because of the autoimmune disease. About one person in 50 – equally in men and women […]

People who watch news about human kindness after seeing disturbing news could feel fewer negative emotions and retain more belief in the goodness of humanity, compared to people given just the bad news, researchers have discovered. The findings were published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Dr. Kathryn Buchanan, a psychology lecturer at the […]

Although stress is a natural part of life, when it becomes chronic or prolonged, it can have a negative effect on our physical and mental health.  Stress can cause the body to release hormones such as cortisol, which can affect the immune system and increase inflammation in the body. This inflammation can trigger or worsen […]

A six-year-old boy from Ashdod was hospitalized in critical condition on Saturday at Asuta Hospital in the city after choking on a jelly bean. The incident occurred while the child was out with his mother on one of the city streets, eating the candy. Suddenly, he began to choke and lost consciousness. A Magen David […]

Israel has never been shy of different reasons to be stressed. However, recently, a significant amount of stress has been added to all of our daily lives. Stress is a natural part of life. However, if it starts to become a chronic issue, it can negatively impact our physical and mental health. It causes the […]

Until you gave birth to your first child, you probably didn’t think about the parents out walking their babies. Even if you focused on one mom, you probably assumed she was confident and knew how to handle her baby. After all, she’s the mom and she knows what the baby wants and needs. Then you […]