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A 10-month-old baby boy weighing only 5.5 kilos who suffers from epilepsy has undergone the implantation of a vagal-nerve stimulator (VNS) at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. The vagus nerve is one of the 12 cranial nerves that travel from the brain to rest of the body. The operation is a significant achievement in […]
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Amazingly, a friendly pat on the back of a basketball player can improve his or her performance, according to a research team at the University of Basel in Switzerland. A free throw in basketball will have every eye glued to one person during an intensely stressful situation, and many games are decided by this bonus. […]
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It isn’t only ultra-Orthodox Jews who frequently object to smartphones – although stores in haredi neighborhoods report that some have both a “dumbphone” – with minimal features – and a smartphone to avoid community and rabbinic pressures. There are people around the world who purposely choose a cellphone with only minimal services, even though they […]
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What is known worldwide as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” the A.M. Turing Award for 2024 will be granted to Prof. Avi Wigderson, a graduate of the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. The award is an annual prize given by the ACM (the American […]
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Among the excuses that many smokers give for refusing to quit is that they claim they will gain weight if they kick the habit. However, it seems that they are fooling themselves. Smoking prevention and cessation are critical for public health efforts to reduce the incidence of several chronic disorders, particularly respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. […]
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Researchers at the oral medicine department at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine have discovered that photobiomodulation (PBM) therapy provides immediate pain relief for burning mouth syndrome (BMS). The painful condition, which includes a feeling of scalding, tingling, and burning every day for months or longer, can be caused by taking certain medications, especially […]
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Nearly 500 million people around the world suffer from type-2 diabetes, caused mostly by poor diet, obesity, and lack of physical activity, and an estimated 200 million of them are dependent on insulin therapy for their health. In addition, there are about nine million people with type-1 diabetes because their pancreas doesn’t produce any insulin […]
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A groundbreaking study has shown that individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) who do not receive medication are significantly more likely to die early, mainly due to unnatural causes such as accidents, drug overdoses, and suicide. This research, which examined the health outcomes of tens of thousands of participants, underscores the vital role of […]
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Most people who undergo cosmetic surgery think “no pain, no gain” and that the discomfort will end very soon after they recover from the operation. But they are wrong. Fully one out of eight people in Norway who submitted to the scalpel of a plastic surgeon to look better said they suffer from chronic pain […]
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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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