Category: Science and Health

Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China’s raging COVID-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the government’s mouthpiece newspaper on Wednesday rallied citizens for a “final victory” over the virus. China’s axing of its stringent virus curbs last month has unleashed COVID on a 1.4 billion population that has […]

There are plants in Hawaii that are endangered because their natural pollinator is rare or extinct. People climb mountains and go from plant to plant pollinating them by hand. In certain periods of our history, an analogous process occurred. Scholars became rare in certain cities. Other scholars, the natural pollinators, would travel from community to community, bringing learning […]

More than 3,000 US children aged five and under accidentally ingested cannabis edibles in 2021 – an increase of 1,375% from 2017, when there were just over 200 such cases– according to a US National Poison Data System study released Tuesday. The study, published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed pediatric research journal Pediatrics and based on […]

Adults who don’t drink enough water are more likely to age faster, develop chronic illnesses and die younger, according to a new study concluded after 25 years of research. The study, done by researchers from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), was published Monday in the peer-reviewed academic journal The Lancet.  How did the […]

“Shalom! You’re looking at a hot little Jew.”  That’s how Zach Kornfeld of the Try Guys introduced his creation to a panel of judges on “Without a Recipe: Tacos,” one of the group’s most popular YouTube shows. The Try Guys, made up of Zach Kornfeld, Keith Habersberger and Eugene Lee-Yang, started as a series on […]

Fluoride contributes significantly to maintaining dental health. Today, though, our kids don’t receive fluoride from tap water.  Despite updated recommendations from the Health Ministry, most kids’ toothpaste doesn’t contain enough fluoride to protect teeth.  If we want our kids to have healthy teeth and fewer or no cavities, it’s not enough that we make sure […]

Teenage suicide has increased 12-18% since in-person schooling has returned after the rate decreased during COVID-19 lockdowns. A recent study, carried out by the National Bureau of Economic Research, has found that teenage suicide is heavily tied to in-person school attendance. The study reported that youth suicide dropped significantly during the school closures that came […]

Many young children know the ritual surrounding the dropping out of baby teeth and saving them for the “tooth fairy.” In the case of Gili Bezalel, a nine-year-old from Misgav in the Galilee, the role of the tooth fairy was replaced by the goddess of fortune. A few days ago, while she was at school, […]

Mental problems such as deep depression and acute distress are on the rise in Israel, according to the latest Eran report. Eran is an emotional first aid and support organization run mostly by trained volunteers which for half a century has been providing first responses by phone and online. According to the report presented on […]

Two-fifths of stroke victims suffer from aphasia – difficulty or the inability to speak or produce written language – but they can be helped with their voices nevertheless. Researchers at the University of Helsinki have found that language function and the psychosocial well-being of patients and their families can be promoted by singing in a […]