Category: Science and Health

Israelis have gone to polling stations for Knesset elections five times in less than four years – a situation that most voters have felt causes great annoyance, anger and anxiety. Now American researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lindon have proven the toll of polarized politics on mental and physical health and that political anxiety crescendos […]

The Netherlands will now allow euthanasia of terminally ill children between the ages of one and 12, according to a report by the Guardian earlier this week. The Dutch government said that this would only apply to up to 10 children a year and only for children who have no hope of recovery and who […]

If you recently gave birth, you’re familiar with the Health Ministry’s recommendation not to lay newborns on their stomachs without supervision in order to avoid the risk of cot death.  Yet some parents allow babies to lie on their stomachs, and if you’re one of them, you must have noticed an interesting position. When babies […]

People all over the world lost confidence in the importance of routine childhood vaccines against killer diseases like measles and polio during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from UNICEF. In 52 of the 55 countries surveyed, the public perception of vaccines for children declined between 2019 and 2021, the UN agency said. […]

A Swiss study has found that both practicing and listening to music can alter cognitive decline in healthy seniors by stimulating the production of gray matter in the brain. Normal aging is associated with progressive cognitive decline. Can we train our brain to delay this process? Throughout our lives, our brain remodels itself. Brain morphology […]

As Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, parents are faced with the question of how to talk to their children about the Nazi genocide. Racheli Baratz-Rix, the head of the World Zionist Organization’s (WZO) Department of Combating Antisemitism and Enhancing Resilience, has some tips on how to discuss the difficult subject. Baratz-Rix recommends starting off such […]

Want to check if you’re healthy? Try to stand on one leg for 20 seconds without losing your balance. Research shows that the ability to do this is a sign of physical health and that getting better at this can help one’s physical fitness and even boost life expectancy. The ability to stand on one […]

Carbohydrates are an important component in all of our daily diets and it’s almost impossible to imagine life without them. They are divided into two groups: Complex carbs – found in bread, legumes and potatoes – and simple carbs – such as sugar, sweets, cookies, fruit juices and more. But a new study recently published […]

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 […]