Category: Science and Health

In the US, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky announced she was stepping down on May 5. This surprise came days before the US ended the public health emergency focused on the COVID pandemic on May 11.  It was also the same day the World Health Organization had declared an end to […]

The weather is warming up, and summer will soon be here. It’s so nice to hear that the airline and tourism industries are beginning to rebound from the downturn caused by the COVID pandemic. Lots of people have already returned to traveling and flying on planes. Unfortunately, for some, they are still emotionally locked down […]

Frequently watching YouTube can increase the feeling of loneliness, anxiety and depression, a new study has found. The peer-reviewed study was recently published in the journal MDPI. The researchers aimed to understand the positive and negative consequences for mental health of using the popular streaming channel. Findings of the study Youtube most negatively affected individuals aged […]

US adolescents made fewer weekly emergency department (ED) visits for mental health conditions in Fall 2022 compared to a year earlier, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Thursday. By late 2022, pandemic restrictions had been loosened or lifted and adolescents had generally returned to schools, with better social engagement […]

Pfizer Inc PFE.N is pouring the windfall profits from its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment into developing products to battle cancer, most notably in its $43 billion purchase of Seagen Inc SGEN.O, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said at a Reuters newsmaker event on Thursday. “Pfizer is giving all the profits that we made from COVID in […]

As most people want to live longer and with good health, Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer will open in September on its campus the world’s first public hospital longevity center to provide advanced, research-based medicine for maintaining and improving people’s physiological and mental functions. The Sheba Longevity Center is being planned to promote longer, […]

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday set guidelines for blood donation organizations, recommending they screen donors based on one set of criteria, ending a restrictive policy that applied only to men who have sex with men and their female partners. The Biden administration had been seeking to end the previous set of time-based […]

“Data World,” a digital dashboard that includes extensive data on the quality of medical treatment, public complaints about health services and patients’ experiences with them has been launched by the Health Ministry in Jerusalem. Until recently, the ministry has been stingy about providing the public with access to comparisons among medicalinstitutions and services. It is […]

A new collaboration focusing on the use of artificial intelligence in medicine is being put into motion by the University of Toronto’s leading Center for AI in Medicine (T-CAIREM) and the Technion’s Artificial Intelligence Hub (Tech.AI), a leading Israeli academic institution’s branch for the field of medicine. The collaboration will bring together faculty members and […]

The scalp is a grating issue, in fact anyone who deals with an itchy scalp knows the phenomenon that can develop all year long. There are quite a few reasons for the annoying sensation experienced by the majority of the population. Dr. Sivan Mercer, an expert in aesthetic and laser dermatology, sorts out the well-known […]