Category: Science and Health

How should you handle a premature birth? What steps need to be taken? November 17 marks World Prematurity Day. As such, The Israel Midwives’ Association has put together some facts you need to know. Premature births are defined as a baby born before the 37th week of pregnancy. By contrast, normal birth is usually around […]

With advances in medicine, human beings on average live longer today than any preceding generation. The customary Jewish birthday greeting,  “May you live to 120,” may one day be a realistic possibility for many of us. But often with extended years come a range of life-altering changes. Those in their later years are likely to suffer from […]

You know that feeling when you’re just falling asleep, and then you feel like you’re falling – and you’re body jumps? You are not alone – it happens to 70% of people – even the healthiest – and we are here to explain why. This phenomenon is called myoclonus (myo = muscle, clonus = contraction) […]

Each year, 4000 to 5000 new breast cancer patients are diagnosed in Israel, and many need a full or partial mastectomy. This process can cause physical and emotional distress, and to ease the process, women are offered breast reconstruction after surgery.  Dr. Madah Ihab, a senior physician in the plastic surgery department at Tel Aviv […]

The ancient skin disease leprosy may have a secret benefit for humanity, as a new study shows the bacteria that causes it just might be able to regenerate and grow one of the human body’s most vital organs: The liver. The findings of this study were published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Cell Reports Medicine. […]

A man was sick with COVID-19 for 411 days straight, but even after all this time battling with the disease, British scientists were finally able to cure him, as detailed in a new study. The findings of this study, published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, shed light on the methodology used to […]

After nearly three years of dealing with COVID-19, is this the next global health hazard?  The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the first-ever list of fungal pathogens that constitute the biggest threat to human health and warned that some strains are resistant to drugs and are becoming more and more common. The United Nations, […]

Rabbi Shmuel bar Nahmani said that Rabbi Yonatan said: Anyone who gets angry, all kinds of Gehenna rule over him … That is, anger inevitably leads to suffering — most of all, for the person who is feeling it. Gehenna, that hellish underworld that serves as the first stop in the afterlife, is perhaps invoked […]

We ended yesterday’s daf with a mishnah that listed four types of vows that are dissolved by the sages: vows of exhortation, vows of exaggeration, vows made in error and vows that are made against one’s will. These four kinds of vows are flawed from the get-go because the vower didn’t have all the information or the right intentions, […]

Anyone who has experienced a cardiovascular event already knows how important it is to lower the bad cholesterol level in the body.  Dr. Yaron Arbel, an expert in cardiology and catheterization, was a guest on International Heart Day on Prof. Rafi Carso’s program for an in-depth conversation on the causes of heart attacks and the […]