A new report published as part of the National Program for Quality Indicators in Community Healthcare for 2023 reveals concerning changes in public health in Israel in the shadow of the war. The report points to the overuse of sleep and anti-anxiety medications, high rates of obesity and smoking, a decrease in early breast cancer […]
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The mental toll the war has taken on Israelis has led to a significant increase in the likelihood of purchasing short-term anti-anxiety medication, a new study based on 19 years of data revealed. During times of heightened national security tensions in Israel, people are more likely to purchase the medications, researchers from the Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi (KSM), […]
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LONDON – More than 100 doctors gathered at the Nefesh B’Nefesh UK MedEx debut in northwest London, in late September, taking a step further into actualizing their goal of making aliyah. The event took place as part of the International Medical Aliyah Program, aimed at streamlining the aliyah process for doctors and bringing 2,000 Jewish […]
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Since October 7, healthcare professionals in medicine, mental health, education, welfare, first responders and rescue workers face such great difficulties in getting help to those who need it that many of them suffer from fatigue, apathy, burnout, stress, and distress. Recently, in a roundtable meeting in which researchers in the healthcare field participated, the main […]
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Tonsillectomy performed on children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) does not increase the risk of obesity in adulthood, according to a new study at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Soroka- University Medical Center in Beersheba. OSA, in which the person stops breathing momentarily but many times while sleeping affects about six percent of […]
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The Lema’anchem – Maflee La’asot conference, in collaboration with the Weizmann Institute of Science, is set to illuminate the advancements and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Scheduled for later this year, this pioneering event aims to explore the tangible achievements expected by 2025, marking a pivotal shift in the redefinition of health services. […]
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The attacks of Iran-backed Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea have wreaked havoc on imports to countries passing through the body of water, and among those Israeli organizations that have suffered is the voluntary organization, Yad Sarah. The medical-equipment loan organization, which also carries out numerous services to the ill, elderly, and lonely, […]
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An ongoing dispute between the Health and Finance Ministries over the distribution of imaging devices – CT, MRI, PET-CT, and more – was discussed at the Knesset Health Committee on Tuesday. Committee chairman Shas MK Yoni Mashriki called the meeting to check on the waiting times and the existing need to determine how to distribute […]
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – the most common type of dementia – was first discovered by clinical psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer who described a 50-year-old woman, Auguste Deter, in a Frankfurt psychiatric hospital in 1901. It affects one person in 14 people over the age of 65. one in every six people over the age of […]
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Dr. Tal Patalon, head of the KSM Research and Innovation Center, anticipates that the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and other new technologies in the healthcare industry is on the brink of realization. As she prepares to leave her four-year tenure, she told The Jerusalem Post that it’s time to bridge the gap between innovation […]
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