Category: Science and Health

Healthy pets could be passing on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs; bacteria that resist treatment with multiple antibiotics) to their hospitalized owners, and furthermore, humans could be transferring these dangerous microbes to their dogs and cats, according to new research published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet.  What is antimicrobial resistance? Antimicrobial resistant infections caused an estimated […]

The man was also the first patient to be treated at Rambam’s new trauma care unit.

Seaweed is a superfood, with health, medicinal, pharmaceutical and cosmetic benefits just for the asking – or pulling it up from the sea. It is commonly found as thick growths on rocky shores or accumulations in shallow water at about 50 meters or less.  An innovative study conducted by Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the […]

Over the course of the last few pages, we’ve been discussing the particulars of when a nazirite must shave in response to contracting corpse immunity. On Nazir 49, we encountered a mishnah which taught that a nazirite must shave after coming into contact with a corpse or even certain quantities of fluid or dust from a […]

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 […]