Category: Science and Health

You’re tired after another sleepless night, loaded with hormones and your body still hurts from giving birth.  You look at your oldest child, who seems to have suddenly changed since you brought home a new baby. Suddenly your oldest has outbursts of rage, cries a lot, is clingy, wants to suck on a pacifier, perhaps […]

France confirmed its aim to launch a vaccination program against bird flu in the autumn after results from a series of tests on the vaccination of ducks showed “satisfactory effectiveness,” the farm ministry said. A severe strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has ravaged poultry production around the world, leading to […]

Everyone knows how they like their coffee. Black or not, with or without sugar, with milk or soy milk – and these are just some of the options. And that’s why, when a new TikTok trend tries to tell us to add salt to our morning coffee, we’re horrified at the thought of changing anything […]

Not all sleeping positions are created equal when it comes to the body feeling healthy and well-rested. According to James Leinhardt, an expert on sleeping positions who published his opinion on the British Metro website, one sleeping position, in particular, will leave you sore and tired in the morning. In a video shared on TikTok, […]

Dairy products are more complex than you’d expect. There are those who believe it is bad for your body, those who avoid them for moral reasons, those who believe that it is simply not tasty, and there are also those who cannot go a day without consuming them. Regardless of how dairy products make you […]

Every responsible parent knows that small children need to be supervised around pools. Staying in it alone is a real danger, but it turns out that disaster can still strike. Nikki Jurkotz, a paramedic and first aid educator at Tiny Hearts, said that drowning is the main cause of death for children between the ages […]

US Surgeon-General Dr. Vivek Murthy urged on Wednesday in an official 21-page advisory that action be taken to ensure social media environments are healthy and safe for young people.  While social media may offer some benefits, he said, “There are ample indicators that social media can also pose a risk of harm to the mental […]

Although Jewish children and adolescents born in Ethiopia who came recently on aliyah received little or no adequate examination and treatment for ophthalmological conditions, they have fewer vision problems here than native-born Israeli kids.  This surprising finding has been discovered in a first study of its kind by researchers at Assuta Ashdod Hospital, Ben-Gurion and […]

It’s difficult for neurologists to assess objectively how much patients with chronic pain syndromes are suffering, even when they are difficult to treat and can make them disabled. Thus, if objective biomarkers could be identified, they would help guide palliative medicine specialists. A pain syndrome is defined as pain that continues for more than three […]

A direct connection between levels in the brain of nitric oxide (NO) – a colorless, odorless and non-flammable gas  — has been found for the first time in mouse models with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This breakthrough has just been published by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) – offering new insights into […]