Category: Science and Health

Want to improve your memory? Have some mushrooms. Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland (UQ) have discovered the active compound from an edible mushroom that boosts nerve growth and enhances memory. Prof. Frederic Meunier from the Queensland Brain Institute said the team had identified new active compounds from the mushroom Hericium erinaceus, which is also […]

Safeguarding national treasures isn’t a new concept for Israelis. But Magen David Adom’s brand-new blood center in Ramle takes security to a new level. The center is an enormous facility with three underground, missile-proof levels and has been hailed as the most secure blood services center in the world. “If you come here on a […]

Representatives of 17 Israeli public health organizations sent a strong letter of protest to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denouncing his declared intention not to raise the tax on electronic cigarettes (e-cigs). “This will lead to an unprecedented smoking epidemic in Israel, especially among teenagers,” they wrote, with copies to the chairman of the Knesset Finance […]

Situated behind the Jaffa Center light rail station is an unassuming building. The thousands who walk by it have no idea that long-standing problems are being solved on the top floor. The clinic, home to Amudim, is the result of years of work by Zvi Gluck to unpack the Jewish world’s many problems and solve […]

Dina Klatis and Roni Sela like to “do good.” They met as volunteer medics for United Hatzalah, an Israeli volunteer-based emergency medical services organization.  Roni: “Our story actually started a year earlier,” he explains. “In 2016, Dina’s picture popped up on my Facebook page of ‘people you may know.’ I sent her a message asking […]

Sleeping pills are an effective tool for those who have trouble sleeping. New research, however, has shown that commonly-prescribed sleep aids could have negative cognitive effects later in life, which could cause some users to stop taking them.  Scientists have recently discovered that common sleeping pills can significantly increase the risk of dementia. In their […]

It’s accepted knowledge that New York City has great bagels and Los Angeles has great tacos (and celebrity sightings), right? In truth, Los Angeles has long been able to boast great Jewish food. It was with this in mind that I sat down over buttered sourdough toast, scrambled eggs and steaming mugs of hot coffee […]

A genome-study analysis conducted by scientists in China, where the COVID-19 pandemic began more than three years ago, has found that no new variants have appeared since the Chinese lifted their strictest control policies. It suggests that they all were caused by existing strains. The study, published in The Lancet medical journal, suggests two existing […]

It’s time for dinner, you put a plate of food on the high chair’s tray, you say that it’s time to eat and go to lift the baby into the chair and… you encounter firm resistance. A baby who isn’t ready to eat will rage and resist, shout “no”, and feel frustrated – and so […]

A quarter of Ukraine’s population is at risk of developing a severe mental health condition as the country grapples with the year-long Russian invasion, a senior health official said on Thursday. Michel Kazatchkine, a member of the Eastern and Central European and Central Asian Commission on Drug Policy, said the conflict in Ukraine had not […]