Category: Science and Health

The phrase “Don’t cry over spilled milk” often reminds us of life’s minor setbacks, but at Magen David Adom’s (MDA) National Human Milk Bank of Israel in Ramla, every drop is invaluable. In this unique venue, voluntary donations undergo rigorous processing, including controlled pasteurization, before aiding premature and medically fragile infants. This initiative is led […]

A commission established by Britain’s The Lancet medical journal produced a 73-page report on medical atrocities under Nazism and during the Holocaust – and their implications for today. The most comprehensive report issued to date, with 878 references, details the central role health professionals played in formulating and carrying out the antisemitic, racist, and inhumane […]

The Finance Ministry agreed to give treatment for emotional and mental problems high priority after a stormy and tense discussion on Monday in the Knesset Health Committee,  “The war created an unprecedented event in mental health, and we are again calling on the Health Ministry to coordinate among the relevant bodies in the country that […]

Israel has been at war for over a month, and there is no way of knowing how long the war will last. Many people find themselves in a wartime routine and are forced to function amid a persistent bad mood, stress, and disrupted sleep.  The constant barrage of shocking and heartbreaking stories does not help.  […]

Prof. Asher Ben-Arieh, a leading Israeli expert on preventing, identifying, and treating child abuse, has written to the Israel Association of Journalists and leading Israeli media outlets calling on them to avoid interviews with child survivors of the Hamas terrorists’ massacre in the South. He stressed the importance of handling the stories of children who […]

If you are a heavy user of social media and decided that one of your New Year’s resolutions was to cut down on them to improve your emotional health, you may be in for disappointment. A new UK study has found that users who reduced their social media activity for a week saw decreases both […]

Epilepsy – a chronic disease of the brain that affects about 50 million people of all ages worldwide – is one of the most common neurological disorders. A possible cause is an imbalance of nerve-signaling chemicals called neurotransmitters, but in many cases, the cause is unknown. There are an estimated 85,000 Israelis suffering from unpredictable […]

New evidence has shown that people with increased sensitivity to pain are also more likely to endorse values common to people of their opposite political persuasion.  We live in a time of exacerbating political polarization. Bridging the ideological divide is hard. Although some strategies have been found effective for interpersonal persuasion and interaction across the […]

The US Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the Zepbound (tirzepatide) injection, a groundbreaking injection leading to weight loss.  Tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Zepbound, is already approved under the trade name Mounjaro to be used along with diet and exercise to help improve blood sugar (glucose) in adults with type 2 diabetes […]

Even though food products with excessive amounts of sodium chloride have been marked with red stickers by order of the Health Ministry, a look at supermarket shelves showed that salty products from canned pickles and cold cuts to pretzels and other snacks have a slew of salt. And that’s not counting the amount added to […]