Category: Science and Health

The Tenth Commandment teaches us not to covet. How can emotion be legislated? Our tradition offers many answers. One points to the idea that you only covet that which you believe you can have. Whatever belongs to someone else should be considered strictly off limits, and if you think of it that way you will […]

GAZIANTEP, TURKEY – Emergency services not only need to contend with physical injuries when responding to Monday’s deadly earthquake in Turkey, but they also need to treat victims’ trauma and mental wounds. United Hatzalah volunteer and Psychotruama specialist Sophie Donio, who is currently working on the rescue mission in Turkey explained to The Jerusalem Post […]

A study that was conducted at Copenhagen University in Denmark revealed that there are health advantages to drinking coffee with milk. The researchers’ goal was to check whether antioxidants known as Polyphenols that are found at high rates in coffee interact with amino acids that make up the proteins in milk. The study’s results attest […]

February 7, 2023, marks 123 years since the first major epidemic of the bubonic plague in the continental US after cases broke out in San Francisco. The plague epidemic lasted four years and resulted in at least 119 deaths.  Most notable, however, is the fact that the very existence of the epidemic was denied for […]

The final mishnah of Nazir chapter 2 informs us that: If one says, “I am hereby a nazirite when I will have a son,” and added, “I am hereby a nazirite from now for 100 days,” and then began observing the 100 days of his naziriteship, if a son is born to him up to […]

A doctor specializing in intestinal affairs revealed details about 10 things we all have at home that have a lot of bacteria on them on his business TikTok account. According to him, these are objects that 70 percent of people do not clean enough. “It is enough for you to be sick just once for […]

Israel’s national emergency medical service organization Magen David Adom (MDA) has formed a partnership with US-based Hatzolah Air to provide medical evacuation (Medevac) helicopter service in Israel. This partnership will see MDA paramedics stationed on MDA’s and Hatzolah Air’s Medevac helicopters for situations where medical evacuation by aircraft is necessary. “This partnership will ensure that […]

In January, it was revealed that devices for drying gel polish may damage the DNA in our hands, causing mutations. According to new research, the damage seen in the remaining cells is not always repaired, causing mutations in human cells similar to those seen in skin cancer. This study caused great concern. Yet, it should […]

There has been an 86% reduction in risk of monkeypox infection in high-risk populations in Israel – mainly homosexuals – who have been vaccinated, compared to non-vaccinated people. This was the first and most comprehensive study published so far, which tested the effectiveness of giving a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine in preventing cases […]

A gamer managed to narrowly cheat death after supposedly drinking dozens of cans of energy drinks in just 10 minutes in what he dubbed a “legendary” trick for his colleagues. As reported by The New York Post, Dr. Bernard Hsu shared this case in a YouTube video in September 2021. It has since resurfaced and […]