Category: Science and Health

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 […]

Coffee for most people isn’t just a drink that we enjoy several times a day. It’s a way of life and it’s very difficult to think about managing our days and to-do lists without it.  The main reason we drink coffee is to feel more alert and vital, but does it really work for us? […]

On Thursday night, the clocks were moved forward one hour to daylight savings time. This means that our days are going to be longer and with more light, but it also means that we lost an hour of sleep on Thursday night. For many – especially children and their parents – this change is not […]

One cannot see the exact site of the parting of the Red Sea, and it is pretty expensive to travel to the moon.  So, when I was allowed to become the first Israeli journalist since the start of the corona pandemic to go inside the site where Pfizer made its COVID-19 vaccines, I jumped at […]

Most patients admitted to hospitals with acute viral infections are given antibiotics as a precaution against bacterial co-infection, but this practice may not improve survival, new research suggests. Researchers investigated the impact of antibiotic use on survival in more than 2,100 patients in a hospital in Norway between 2017 and 2021 and found that giving […]

The sound of traffic can elevate your risk of hypertension, a new study has found.  A new peer-reviewed study, published in the journal JACC: Advances, analyzed over 240,000 participants and concluded that the sound of traffic can cause hypertension. Older studies have proven a causational relationship between the sounds of traffic and high blood pressure. […]

Women who gain too much weight during pregnancy put their offspring at risk for becoming overweight and diabetic later on, according to a new study.  Overnutrition for a fetus or newborn rewires developing brains to crave unhealthy food, researchers at Rutgers University said. Their findings were published in the peer reviewed journal Molecular Metabolism. To […]

A Health Ministry investigation committee has severely criticized the private Assuta Medical Center in Rishon Lezion for its mix-up of embryos last year that resulted in the mistaken insertion of an embryo into another woman instead of the biological mother. It also berated the ministry itself for poor supervision of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) units around […]