Category: Health

I have lived here for 24 years. We thought we were at war after 9/11, during the Second Intifada, over our three very long years of fighting COVID-19, and most recently in the lack of unity and horrible infighting. But now, there are simply no words. It is simply unimaginable for us. I did […]

The tense security situation affects each person differently, including those living with dementia. Therefore, the key is to tailor your approach to the individual and their specific requirements. Here are some recommendations on how to prepare for caring for and accompanying individuals with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease during wartime: Credit: Meitar Schleider Potashnik What […]

Stress, illustrative (credit: PIXNIO) Some 4,000 requests for emotional help have been received in recent days by the Health Ministry’s resilience centers in the south that provide telephone and Zoom support. This is almost three times the number of referrals received in other stressful situations that occurred this year. In addition, about 5,500 inquiries came […]

Assuta-Ashdod Public Medical Center allowed in an unusual visitor to comfort and improve the health of a patient who was nearly murdered in the rave party in the south last Shabbat – her four-legged friend, her little black dog. The victim of the massacre had been admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit in […]

I doubt the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), in all his prescience, would have predicted that his work would one day fuel a TikTok trend called “shadow work”. Life coaches and self-help gurus on the platform promote the exploration of shadow as a path to self-development. The exercises they recommend include thought experiments imagining parental […]

Teams at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa have begun cleaning and preparing its -3 floor in the protected Sammy Ofer Hospital at the request of the Home Front Command.  This does not involve moving wards and patients there, the hospital stressed, but to be ready in the event of  developments in the […]

Researchers at London’s Queen Mary University have found that COVID may not be the only respiratory disease with long-term effects, with several others also showing evidence of long-term aftereffects. The study published in the peer-reviewed Lancet medical journal showed that several other respiratory infections had similar long-term effects. The researchers were prompted to begin this […]

Something unusual seems to be happening with dengue, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne viral disease found across swathes of tropical Africa, Asia and the Americas. As with most infectious diseases, the number of cases tends to rise and fall over the years as epidemics come and go, but recently changes seem to be afoot in how […]

Four Israeli children from the same kindergarten in Tel Aviv have been confirmed to be infected with measles, the Health Ministry said Friday. A fifth child is suspected of being infected but has not been confirmed as of yet. The ministry stressed that this is a “very rare event” as the children had all […]

Have you ever considered that you don’t need to walk 10,000 steps a day to maintain a healthy heart? Recent research reveals that climbing five flights of stairs daily may be sufficient to lower the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). New Research A team of researchers delved into the link between stair climbing […]