How music heals us, even when it’s sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy

When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his own life]. He’d been listening to her album, and I played it as I tidied up. Whenever I hear […]

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IDF denies therapy to Bedouin soldier traumatized on Oct. 7 – report

A Bedouin IDF soldier who was traumatized fighting Hamas on October 7 is being denied mental healthcare, and is being kept in military jail after being arrested for cannabis possession, Army Radio reporter Doron Kadosh shared Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter. לא חשבתי שתוך כדי המלחמה אפרסם סיפור כזה, אבל זה פשוט לא ייאמן: […]

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could it be down to a misunderstanding of how risk is calculated?

A multi-million-pound landmark “vaccine damage” case is set to take place in London’s High Court. The test case is being pursued by Jamie Scott who suffered a severe brain injury in April 2021 after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The case being brought under the Consumer Protections Act argues that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was less safe […]

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World News in Brief: Diabetes on the rise, UN prisoners in Yemen, Ukraine war fuels rise in landmine casualties

Diabetes is a chronic disease which occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. WHO said that more than 460 million people worldwide live with diabetes and millions more are at risk. The UN health agency stressed that people with the condition require […]

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Dogs provide comfort for high-risk pregnancy patients at Haifa hospital

Many women in the high-risk pregnancy and the fetal-medicine units at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus who spends weeks or longer in the wards have been very anxious since the war against Hamas terrorists in the south began and rockets have been fired in the north by Hizbollah terrorists. Now, the patients have gotten what […]

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Autistic people experience loneliness far more acutely than neurotypical people – new research

Autistic people are up to four times more likely to experience loneliness than non-autistic people. Despite enduring stereotypes that autistic people lack the desire for meaningful social connections, new research from my colleagues and I unveils the profound distress they experience due to loneliness. It also shows the unexpected role that differences in the ways […]

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Humanitarians step up response to deadly cholera outbreak in Sudan

UN agencies and partners are scaling up response to the outbreak, which was first declared in Gedaref state, located in the east, on 26 September.  At least 2,525 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhoea/cholera have been reported, including 78 associated deaths, in 27 localities across seven states. Millions at risk More than 3.1 million people […]

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Soroka ophthalmologists urge IDF soldiers to wear protective goggles

Ophthalmologists at Soroka-University Medical Center in Beersheba who have been treating soldiers wounded in the war against Hamas terrorists have produced a short video to raise the military’s awareness of the need to wear protecting goggles at all times to prevent harm to the eyes during combat. Dr. Liron Kravitz and Dr. Ana Bunin […]

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Mothers on the frontlines: The milk bank saving babies in wartime

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 […]

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How can parents protect children from horrors on TV and on social media?

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 […]

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