Category: Science and Health

A new study published in the journal PLOS One has shown that nearly one in five people in the UK suffer from misophonia – an auditory sensitivity or auditory disorder defined as “hatred of noise.” The researchers gave 772 participants a questionnaire according to which they could understand the intensity and complexity of misophonia while […]

There are an estimated 200 Israelis suffering from childhood onset schizophrenia (COS) – a severe and rare form of the psychiatric disorder that emerges before the age of 13. The role of genetics in schizophrenia is significant and widely studied in the common form of the disease that appears in adolescence or early adulthood, but […]

From the villages of Eastern Europe comes an old, classic joke. Shmuel comes in the door with a sad face, telling Esther that the Czar has decreed that every Jew must convert and become Christian. “What shall we do?” cries Esther. “I don’t think we have a choice,” laments Shmuel, “we have to convert.”  The next day Shmuel […]

Smartphones have definitely changed the way we communicate, think and behave in almost every aspect of our lives.  It makes sense that scientists from numerous countries are constantly trying to understand how profound this effect is, and the positive and negative consequences on our health. Usually, the negative effects of smartphones are stressed and this […]

Potentially deadly fungal infections with Candida auris are spreading rapidly in US healthcare facilities, with cases nearly doubling between 2020 and 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The number of cases rose by 44% to 476 in 2019, up from 330 in 2018, and subsequently, 59% to 756 in 2020 and by […]

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a hybrid micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that can be controlled and navigated using either electricity or magnetism. The device is able to navigate among different cells in a biological sample, distinguish between different types of cells, identify whether they are healthy or dying and […]

Albondigas are small meatballs commonly served in a broth flavored with chilis and vegetables. The dish was brought to the Sonoran region by the Spanish and is served at restaurants all over Tucson in different iterations, including chicken, turkey, beef, shrimp and fish.  One year, inspired by Passover, I decided to personalize my version of […]

When you close your eyes in total darkness, the color you see isn’t black, but a dark shade of gray sometimes called eigengrau.  The term’s origin is German, and it translates approximately to “significant gray” as eigen means “one’s own” and “grau” means “gray.” Why do we see this gray shade and not black?  When […]

If you can walk, but you cannot walk and talk at the same time, can mean you suffer from some sort of issue in the brain. A new study found that the ability to juggle the two tasks starts to lessen almost a decade earlier than what was previously assumed, while scientists say that this […]

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is more efficient in treating fibromyalgia that resulted of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) than drug therapy, according to a new Tel Aviv University study. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome from which between two and eight percent of the population suffers. Until about two decades ago, there were physicians who […]