Category: Science and Health

We’ve all been there: you’re in your bed, deep asleep and dreaming of sunny skies when suddenly, there’s a sharp pain and you get thrown back into reality. Muscle cramping, particularly leg cramping and contracting in the calf, is very common, and for some reason loves to attack specifically when we’re asleep. On Professor Rafi […]

The World Cancer Research Fund recently published a list of causes responsible for hundreds of thousands of cancer cases worldwide each year. The organization believes that healthy eating, physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight and stopping smoking can prevent about 40% of diagnoses, which is quite a number. The data comes after the publication of […]

Abu Dhabi’s Health Department on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Maccabi Health Services’ Khan Sagol Maccabi Research and Innovation Center pledging to increase cooperation in healthcare research and technological innovation, the organizations announced. Goals of the memorandum The move comes as part of the Abu Dhabi Health Department’s Healthier Abu Dhabi initiative. The […]

An Arab-Israeli woman going through labor was told to switch rooms in Afula’s Emek Medical Center on Tuesday after a Jewish woman objected to being hospitalized in the same room. The Arab woman, who arrived at the hospital with her husband late on Tuesday night, was told that the room assignment at the hospital was […]

Reading of sacrifices in the Bible, many are mortified to think that ancient Israelites would slaughter animals at the Temple. It seems primitive, bloody — even barbaric. As someone who has not eaten chicken or meat in over thirty years, I nonetheless want to defend the practice.  When we buy meat, most of us do so after […]

A 65-year-old woman named Leah Biton who suffered an unusual fracture in her spine and was unable to get around is now able to walk without pain just two days after a Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC) team in Jerusalem carried out innovative surgery for the first time in Israel.  The groundbreaking technology with a […]

Which is better for health – chicken, fish, or beef? Dr. Maya Roseman explained: “From a nutritional point of view – there is almost no difference between them. All of them have about 25 grams of protein per hundred grams, a quality protein that is important for building muscles. They all have iron and vitamin […]

Figs are delicious — dried, fresh, whatever. Yum! But nazirite vows aren’t about what’s delicious, but about what’s defined by the Torah. And Numbers 6:4 is very clear that a nazirite shall abstain from wine, grapes and any kind of intoxicant. It says nothing about figs. So the mishnah on today’s daf asks: What happens […]

Protection against an increased risk of pregnancy complications is provided by the COVID-19 Omicron booster vaccine, according to a new study at the University of Oxford in the UK and the Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem. The main researcher from Israel, Dr. Michal Lifshitz – a nurse researcher in the obstetrics and gynecology division at […]

The tradition of eating dried carob pods and various other fruits to mark Tu Bishvat – the Jewish New Year of Trees – is not and should not be observed by Israelis. The custom originated with the Jews who lived in the Diaspora and suffered from a lack of fresh fruit in the winter season, […]