Israel’s Health Ministry is neglecting to add iodine and folic acid to table salt to minimize impaired cognitive and motor development that can cause permanent brain damage and birth defects in children, according to public health experts here and abroad. Despite success in many areas of preventive health care such as low infant mortality, it […]
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Are people naturally happy or can they make themselves joyful? In fact, there is even a how-to course on “The Science of Happiness” offered since 2018 at the UK’s University of Bristol, where researchers have conducted a first-of-its-kind study on the subject. Although many colleges that have offered psychoeducational courses teaching positive psychology interventions report […]
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Sleep fills a third of our lives. During sleep, thousands of brain and nervous system processes and extensive hormonal activities take place that affect our health. Sleep is critical not only for relieving fatigue but gaining strength for the next day. In recent years, more and more evidence has been discovered that a lack of […]
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How do you deal with the trauma of the deadliest day Jews have experienced since the Holocaust? This was the question Israeli trauma experts faced in the wake of Oct. 7, 2023, when over 1,200 Israelis were killed and some 250 taken captive in Hamas’s attack on Israel. The massive attack by terrorists immediately was […]
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There are entire cookbooks written just about it and you can make countless festive, dietary, or high-fat dishes from it, it is suitable for every meal and every situation even as a snack: Cauliflower At only 25 calories per hundred grams, the cauliflower is rich in filling nutritional fibers and in potassium required for blood […]
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The prevalence of congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection –a leading cause of childhood neurologic deficits with lifelong implications – in Israel is about 0.7%. Since 15% of the annual 145,000 pregnancies in Israel involve seronegative mothers who lack the virus in their blood, 21,750 to 29,000 women are at risk of developing primary CMV infection during […]
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Hearing loss in the elderly affects women and men differently due to a variety of factors, according to researchers in South Korea. They include weight, smoking behavior, and hormone exposure. “Hearing loss should be prevented, even it is related to aging,” they asserted. According to a new study entitled “Sex differences in associated factors for […]
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Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or crib death) remains the leading cause of infant death between the ages of one month and one year in the Western world. In Israel, an average of 45 infants die from SIDS per year, 87% of them before six months of age. The risk can be reduced substantially if […]
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The Labrador retriever – easy to train as a service dog, including living with the blind, is the most popular canine breed for work and has been so for many years. In the US, it remains an extremely popular breed, but fashion has raised the tiny, wrinkle-faced pug to number one. But now, new research […]
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Mushrooms help make a great salad or omelet but, amazingly, they may also improve mental health – from depression to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to schizophrenia – according to a new study conducted at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center. The research, led by doctoral student Orr Shahar and Dr. Alexander Botvinnik, under the guidance of […]
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