Category: Science and Health

A breakthrough in the study of Alzheimer’s disease that explains why the dementia occurs more seriously and faster in women than men has been led by Hebrew University (HU) of Jerusalem’s Prof. Hermona Soreq – one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of gene expression in the brain.  It has been known for […]

Israelis who travel abroad to save money on plastic surgery, dental work, hair transplants and other procedures may find themselves returning with serious complications that they desperately need to be treated in Israeli hospitals, the Health Ministry has warned. Some return with serious infections, lifetime scars and even the risk of death.  Following a number […]

Progress in reducing deaths during pregnancy and childbirth and among newborn infants has stalled since 2015, and over 60 countries are on track to miss 2030 targets at current rates, a World Health Organization report released on Tuesday found. The COVID-19 pandemic, poverty, and worsening humanitarian crises have strained already pressured healthcare systems, the UN […]

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 […]