Category: Science and Health

If you feel that it’s harder for you to get up in the morning or if you fall asleep much earlier you’re not alone.  New research suggests that humans may need more sleep during the colder months. An analysis of people who participated in sleep studies found that people had more REM (rapid eye movement) […]

If you find yourself tossing and turning in bed at the end of the day, unable to calm your mind enough to fall asleep, you’re not alone. Turning your brain off can be challenging as you replay every second of your interactions, conversations, or actions from that day.  While anxiety is a normal human emotion, […]

Baking for Passover — when you can’t use regular flour or any kind of leavener — can be a challenge, to say the least. Sure, there are endless recipes out there, but to find a dessert that is truly swoon-worthy is the ultimate challenge.   Enter: The flourless chocolate cake of your dreams — which just […]

We’ve by now spent quite some time on the issue of a nazir who accidentally contracts corpse impurity. We’ve discussed shaving the consecrated hair the nazirite was growing — which has now become impure and can no longer be offered — and the week-long purification ritual to reverse the corpse impurity of their body. This is […]

Nuts have long been considered a superfood due to the important nutrients they contain.  Many studies have found that they help with weight loss, heart health, improving fertility, etc. Also, nuts are tasty, easy to eat on the go, and a good source of plant protein, especially for those who eat little or no animal […]

Three years ago this week the World Health Organization held a media briefing. It was March 11, 2020, and at the time, the head of the WHO said that the number of cases of COVID-19 was increasing rapidly around the world. There were 118,000 cases in 114 countries and 4,291 known deaths. “The WHO has […]

The State Budget that is expected to be approved in about six weeks will allow the shortening of the shifts worked by hospital interns and residents starting from the beginning of September. According to Mirsham, the organization of interns (in their first year after medical school) and residents (from the second year), about 1,200 doctors […]

Is a fetus a part of the pregnant person or an independent entity? How we answer this question has important implications — morally, legally and ritually. Most of us are used to hearing this question asked in the context of modern abortion debates. But the rabbis of the Talmud also asked, and answered, this very question in another […]

Defibrillators that can shock a patient’s heart into restarting with an electric shock are finally appearing on walls around the country. But there is such a thing as a biological defibrillator to deal with irregular heartbeat (arrythmia).  Researchers at the Rambam Healthcare Campus and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have succeeded for the […]

Researchers may have found a new treatment to prevent severe COVID-19 in patients at greater risk. University of Virginia scientists say a drug used to lower blood sugar levels shows potential in fighting severe cases of COVID-19, especially for people with obesity and diabetes, conditions that can increase the severity of post-COVID infection. The researchers […]