Category: Science and Health

The stroke unit at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC) is the first in the country to test clinically a smartphone device using artificial intelligence (AI) to perform a neurological examination based on the patient’s voice and a video recording of the face and other parts of the body, process them and diagnose stroke cases […]

Frequent sugary food consumption can create the same bodily response as drug addiction, which can be passed down from mother to baby during breastfeeding, a new study has found.  The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, has found that what someone eats alters their brain’s reaction to food.  The study explains that the […]

The Mediterranean diet has been praised by clinical dietitians around the world as being the most healthy of all. But now, a modified Mediterranean diet called the “Green Mediterranean/high polyphenols diet” has been found to be twice as good – promoting dramatic proximal de-stiffening of the aorta. This largest artery of the body carries oxygenated […]

A seagull was found to be infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza at Habonim, north of Zichron Ya’akov, last week, over two months after the last recorded case, according to the Agriculture Ministry. According to a case report filed to the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH), an Armenian gull was found dead […]

An experimental mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna Inc MRNA.O combined with Merck & Co’s MRK.N blockbuster immunotherapy Keytruda cut the risk of death or recurrence of the most deadly skin cancer by 44% compared Keytruda alone, US researchers reported at a medical meeting on Sunday. The findings suggest that adding a personalized cancer vaccine based […]

The announcement by the Massachusetts-based Moderna pharmaceutical and biotechnology company on Sunday, that it is five to seven years away from unveiling a “groundbreaking set of new vaccines for a range of conditions including cancer, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases” made headlines around the world.  The claimed “vaccines” are based on the success of the company’s […]

A new study conducted by the Peter Doherty Insititute for Infection and Immunity suggests that pregnant women posses an immune response to COVID-19 that is just as strong as that of non-pregnant women. The peer-reviewed study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight, the researcher investigated the immune responses of unvaccinated pregnant and non-pregnant […]

Israel is a loud country. I’m not just talking about the people, who are boisterous in a beautiful and familiar manner, but in all regards, and that’s not always a positive. We’re at a major crossroads right now, politically. With judicial reforms being a consistent source of stress in the public sphere, there is a […]

A 16-year-old Israeli has suffered collapsed lungs and is in serious condition after using electronic cigarettes. The Israel Cancer Society (ICA), the Association of Public Health Physicians, and the Medical Society for Prevention and Smoking Cessation all wished the teen a speedy recovery and noted that the use of e-cigs is spreading among children and […]

Here we are, having just finished Passover, and hopefully most are grateful that much of the hard work has actually been done to get us here. For those who turned over their kitchens, cooked, cleaned, prepared a Seder and more, along with working, looking after children, as well as having a “to-do” list a mile […]