Category: Science and Health

Ten years ago, the UK-based nonprofit Alcohol Change created Dry January, a public health campaign that promoted abstaining from alcohol for 30 days at the start of the calendar year. The campaign has spread around the world and grown in popularity, with millions of people participating, and the term Dry January (and its cousin Dryuary) […]

Let’s start with what’s definite: feelings are the key to building a relationship.  We fall in love with someone, are excited to see and talk to them, feel safe with and talk to them and are excited to dream together about the future. On the other hand, emotions are also the key to a bad […]

Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa announced Wednesday that they have opened emergency rooms to deal with the possibility of atomic, chemical or biological warfare in the future. The emergency rooms, which will also treat patients dealing with injuries and physical trauma as a result of earthquakes,  were dedicated by billionaire philanthropist George Schaeffer at […]

Half the country was upset by the result of last week’s Knesset election and some may have even lost sleep over it. Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston who conducted just-publicized research on the US elections in 2020 found that such political events can have dramatic global impacts on psychological health […]

In a legal context, two sentences that run consecutively are served one after the other while two that run concurrently overlap. So for example, if you’re sentenced for two crimes, each with a sentence of three years, you might be in for six years if the sentences are consecutive. But if they run concurrently — […]

As we have already seen, a key distinction between vows and oaths is that vows refer to objects while oaths refer to people. A mishnah on today’s daf informs us of another difference between them: There is a vow within a vow. But there is no oath within an oath.  This seems to mean that […]

The Flint, Michigan water crisis has brought concern about lead toxicity in drinking water back into the headlines. But the public health issue goes well beyond Flint: According to recent estimates, more than half the population of the US was exposed to high levels of lead as children. This information has presented scientists with a […]

Amongst Israel’s 1428 best doctors 222 are from the Sheba Medical Center, according to Forbes Israel. Sheba physicians also lead in over 50% of the specialties, including cardiology, gynecology, oncology and more.  Forbes Israel’s method of ranking the physicians has mostly relied on peer reviews, meaning the physicians rank each other. This method is done […]

Sleep apnea is a potentially serious disorder in which one’s breathing is either shallow or stops during sleep. It can be caused by a number of factors, is a risk factor for other conditions and can even potentially cause death in its own right. While the condition remains a serious issue for those affected, various […]

Sigd is a Jewish-Ethiopian holiday that symbolizes the renewal of the union between God and the people of Israel marked 50 days after Yom Kippur. The holiday serves for communal self-examination, similar to the individual self-examining during Yom Kippur, and includes fasting and prayer. The idea behind the holiday is that in order to leave […]