Category: Science and Health

Vegetarians think they decided to forgo eating meat, fish, and poultry because they oppose killing animals, religious, environmental or health reasons, or simply because grains, fruits, vegetables and are most tasty.  A substantial body of evidence points to the heritability of dietary preferences. While vegetarianism has been practiced for millennia in various societies, its practitioners […]

Diagnostic errors in medicine can have devastating consequences, affecting millions of people each year. Studies conducted in high-income countries reveal that nearly 5% of adults experience medical diagnosis errors annually, with more than half of them potentially resulting in severe harm. Moreover, experts believe that the rate of misdiagnosis in low-income countries could be even […]

Women are programmed to quickly respond to their baby’s cries. Now, researchers at New York University (NYU) have found that, at least in lab mice, hearing the sound of a newborn’s wail can trigger the release of oxytocin – a brain chemical that controls breast milk release in mothers. The researchers found that once prompted, […]

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October is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month. During this month, as with all other months, the Israel Rett Syndrome Association (IRSA), makes special efforts to highlight the genetic condition. “Rett syndrome is a severe rare genetic neurological disorder that occurs almost exclusively in girls, more rarely in boys, and leads to severe impairments, affecting nearly every […]

After an Israeli citizen contracted Dengue fever during a trip abroad, Israel is preparing to eliminate populations of the mosquito responsible for the disease.

Unlike the rare type of dementia called familial Alzheimer’s, which is caused by genetic mutations and runs in families, the most common type is sporadic, whose underlying mechanism has not been well understood.  It was named after the German psychiatrist and neuropathologist in 1906 Dr. Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in a 51-year-old woman […]

The puzzle presented here is designed for individuals with a remarkably high level of concentration. The image displays an incorrect mathematical equation. Your task is to rectify the mistake by moving just one matchstick. Can you do it? Take a look at the arrangement of 28 matchsticks in front of you: 47+6=95. Your goal is […]

At what age are people at their happiest? This seemingly simple question has been studied extensively over the past decades, but a definitive answer has long been elusive. A German research team has now shed light on the question in a comprehensive meta-analytic review.  One would think that the age at which most people are […]

This week, in honor of International Older Persons Day, the Israel Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (IIOSH) explained how to safely integrate workers over the age of 50 into the workplace.  According to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics for 2022, the employment rate among the Israelis over the age of 65 in […]