Category: Science and Health

The Israeli Pharmacists Association warned of a severe shortage of drugs – including Ritalin, medicine used for the treatment of heart and blood vessels issues, and drugs for the treatment of skin problems – in a letter sent to Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash on Monday. “At any given […]

Breast cancer is the most common malignant disease in Israel and the Western world. One out of eight Israeli women contract it during their lifetime, and about 4,500 are diagnosed with and 900 die of it every year.   The number of women who recover from this malignancy is steadily on the rise, thanks to […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of machines to perform certain tasks ״intelligently,” which is often based on the intelligence and expertise of humans. But what if humans lack the expertise to train the machines? This is often the case in drug development, explained Noam Solomon, CEO and co-founder of Immunai.  “Fewer than 10% of […]

I never would have believed that we could have reached maximum potential occupancy in our apartment, but over the holidays we managed to have 14 people – eight adults and six children under the age of six, including a newborn and a four-month-old – sharing our space, day and night. As the last children get […]

Peptides are short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds, the name given to chemical bonds formed between two molecules when the carboxyl group – a combination of two functional groups attached to a single carbon atom – of one molecule reacts with the amino group of the other molecule. A new Israeli/Japanese study […]

The actor Paul Newman was once asked why he didn’t cheat on his wife, actress Joanne Woodward. His response: “Why would I go out for a hamburger when I have steak at home?” This statement was famously held up as a model of marital fidelity. Less famous is Woodward’s own reaction. She is reported to have said: […]

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 […]