Category: Health

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s are needed to more widely diagnose the brain-wasting disease and understand its prevalence, but it will be another couple of years before they become an everyday tool, medical experts and company executives say. Blood testing is initially likely to be used to rule out Alzheimer’s, with positive results signaling the […]

On what should have been just another day at the office, Dr. Bahar Sarhan, a 37-year-old senior doctor in the Emergency Medicine Department at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, found himself in an unexpected scenario. While attending to wounded individuals who arrived at the emergency room following an anti-tank missile strike in Moshav Shtula […]

Many people first became familiar with the term “mRNA” when Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID vaccines were rolled out. In the simplest terms, mRNA, which stands for messenger ribonucleic acid, is a type of genetic material that gives cells in our bodies instructions to make specific proteins. More recently the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or […]

“Teenagers wake up in the morning. They get dressed, brush their teeth, and check their social media. But this technology is not just what they do, it is who they are.” David wrote those sentences back in 2009. Now, almost 15 years later, this more true than ever for teens and tweens. Particularly with […]

An Israeli airstrike struck al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City, international media reported, citing the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave. The details have yet to be verified and Israeli authorities have not released any statement on the alleged strike. Patients and displaced civilians were reportedly seeking shelter at the hospital, following Israel’s order to […]

Supermarkets are collecting donations to buy cigarettes for reserve soldiers about to go into battle in Gaza. On Tuesday morning, the Carrefour supermarket in Jerusalem’s Ramat Beit Hakerem announced on its public address system that it was collecting money for cigarettes for soldiers and hung a sign calling for NIS 10 donations “for our […]

Many people with intellectual disability are diagnosed with cancer when it has already spread (metastasized) and the odds of survival are lower. Intellectual disability is a lifelong condition that occurs before adulthood where people have a reduced ability to understand new or complex information, learn new skills and cope independently. In the UK it is […]

During the last 10 months since Israel’s divisive coalition pushed for a judicial overhaul, many people in these times of polarization found themselves in a workplace where they were one of the few conservatives or few liberals around. Fortunately, Israelis are today united in the effort to eliminate Hamas from Gaza, but sadly this […]

More than a year after Israelis last received a vaccination against the COVID-19 virus, they can now receive the new Moderna booster vaccine called Spikevax, which has shown a significantly higher antibody response against OMICRON BA.4 /5 subvariants compared to the booster of the current vaccine. The vaccines arrived at all the health funds […]

The Health Ministry in Jerusalem expressed its “profound disappointment” on Monday with the World Health Organization (WHO) over its response to Israeli efforts to reduce the risk to civilian life in the conflict zone and to Hamas atrocities and crimes against humanity.  “As Hamas rampaged through Israeli towns murdering infants, raping women, and taking […]