Category: Science and Health

Any former smoker knows that the urge to smoke can resurface even months or years after quitting. Strong emotions, particularly stress and anxiety, can often trigger a relapse. Even positive things can increase the longing for a cigarette. Stressful times can cause anxiety, and people consequently seek ways to relax and cope. For many ex-smokers, […]

Just two weeks after the war against Hamas began, the best minds in the country got together to prepare two extremely detailed documents on how to receive and treat captives physically and emotionally if and when they are released and brought home to Israel. The focus was on infants, children and teens, but most of […]

United Hatzalah, the volunteer-run first responder organization, has begun training both professional therapists and community lay leaders to support people going through traumatic events, not only after them. The focus on trauma comes in the midst of the bloody war in Gaza, itself the response to Hamas’s atrocities on October 7, and a surge in […]

The complete lack of allergy specialists in the south and the north poses danger during the war and evacuation of those areas, due to confusion about whether patients are allergic to iodine and penicillin present in common medical treatments.  This warning came from the Israel Association of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, whose members have offered […]

Despite high-powered advertisements, air-filtration systems designed to make social interactions safer in indoor spaces are not effective in the real world and don’t minimize the danger of your picking up viral infections. That’s the claim of researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) who have just published a meta-analysis on efficacy of air-filtration, germicidal […]

Dvir is a Nahal Brigade combat medic who lives with his family in Gush Etzion. During the first days of the war against Hamas, shrapnel from a mortar shell hit his leg. Despite being wounded and applying a tourniquet to his leg, he continued to help everyone around him and even managed to deliver medical […]

In coordination with the Defense Ministry, Israeli NGO LeMaanchem has launched a campaign to assist soldiers and civilians injured during Operation Swords of Iron from both north and south Israel. Col. Dr. Erez Karp, the commander of the Center for Medical Services in the Medical Corps invited leadership from LeMaanchem to tour medical care centers […]

Time spent playing games on a smartphone or computer and watching TV has measurable and long-term effects on children’s brain function – mostly negative and some positive, according to a meta-analysis by researchers in Hong Kong of 23 years of neuroimaging research on 30,000 children from six months to 12 years.  However, the researchers stopped […]

Most dog owners think their own canine is the smartest in the world. In fact, some are more intelligent than others. When one points at an object, a toddler focuses on it, while the dog usually takes the gesture as a directional cue. In a recent study, researchers from the ethology department at Eötvös Loránd University […]

A new variant of the H5N1 subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been spotted in the Netherlands, the Wageningen Bioveterinary Research Institute at Wageningen University reported on Thursday. The variant was spotted in Renswoude in the central Netherlands. The variant is similar to the other versions of the H5N1 subtype which has been spreading […]