Category: Science and Health

Heartburn is one of the most annoying phenomena disturbing our daily life. But there is a way to cope with and even prevent it. Dr. Maya Rosman explained in her show on 103FM what exactly heartburn is and what can be done against it. “The feeling of heartburn and a ‘rising’ of the food upwards […]

Peanut allergies can be reduced by 77% if babies are fed peanut products at four to six months of age, a new study found. The peer-reviewed study was published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in December. The study was led by Prof. Graham Roberts of the National Institute for Health and Care […]

As those of us familiar with Sephardic cuisine know, there are often different names and spellings for similar dishes. When it comes to baked casseroles of vegetables, egg and usually cheese, it could be called a kuajado or quajado, sfongato or asfongato, fritada or frittata. Most often, “almodrote” is used by Turkish Jews when the […]

Children’s drawings are one-way kids tell about their world, mimic others and express external influences.  Analyzing their paintings, which colors they choose and which dominate, a parent can see how a child is feeling. Most toddlers at around age two begin to identify the primary colors (red, yellow and blue) and then the other colors. […]

Cancer remains the scourge it has always been – but recent years have seen significant advances in diagnosis and treatment. But there are still plenty of issues to be resolved, in both those areas – specifically, developing better ways to evaluate cancer, and developing more effective ways to determine how to choose the proper treatment […]

When in the spring of 2020 countries around the world were vying for supplies of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to protect their populations against COVID-19, the director of the secretive Ness Ziona Biological Institute – anesthesiologist and former Hadassah University Medical Center administrator Prof. Shmuel Shapira – pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to let his and his […]

A new study examining the effects of carbonated drinks on mice found that drinking Pepsi and Coke increased their testicle size and testosterone concentrations. Yet as researchers point out, this runs counter to previous findings that found that drinking soda has a negative effect on fertility. One survey cited found that sperm quality decreased by […]

One scientist revealed the mistake we make when we flush the toilet and the problems it causes. She claimed that one common method of lowering the water in the toilet will prevent the spread of millions of dangerous bacteria throughout the house. Emma Harding, a molecular virology researcher and PhD candidate at Australia’s University of […]

Physiotherapist Sammy Spiegel, who has been practicing for 13 years, shared a video on TikTok recently showing four relatively simple things you need to be able to do daily in order to “age gracefully.” Since being posted last week, the video has already racked up around 1 million views. @samspiegspt 4 things you should always […]

Some of the most popular alcoholic beverages are forbidden on Passover. Beer, whiskey and bourbon are all made from fermented grains, which is the very definition of hametz, leavened products forbidden from consumption on Passover. However many other alcoholic drinks are made by fermenting other things and can, at least in theory, be made kosher […]