Category: Health

More than 25% of adults in the UK have two or more long-term health conditions. This increases to 65% for people older than 65 years, and to almost 82% for those aged 85 or older. Our study assessed how a number of multiple long-term health conditions (psychosis, diabetes and congestive heart failure) develop over time, […]

The Tzafon Medical Center in Tiberias has been allowed by the Health Ministry to implant artificial left-ventrical-assist devices (LVADs) into the chest of cardiac patients whose own hearts are too weak to function and were at the end-stage of heart failure.   The LVAD helps pump blood from the lower left heart chamber, called the […]

Earlier this year, the UK Health Security Agency confirmed a case of tick-borne encephalitis – a potentially deadly virus carried by ticks that causes brain inflammation. A British man is also said to have contracted alpha-gal syndrome after being bitten by a tick. This condition can trigger a fatal allergy to red meat. The ticks […]

Eyeing the end of the school vacation in less than two weeks, parents of young children around the world long to slough off some of the responsibility for keeping them amused and occupied.  Yet, British researchers have found that modern-day parenting pressures and expectations are leading to the “death knell” for children enjoying spontaneous play. […]

Language, experience, and memory are closely linked, and how this link impacts the thoughts and memories of bilingual individuals has been explored in a new study that was published on August 16.   The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal Science Advances, sought to understand if bilingual people had more trouble with recollection and […]

Researchers may have found a new innovative method to test for warning signs of cardiovascular diseases, a new study published on August 18 found.  The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal Frontiers in Oral Health, found that elevated white blood cells in the saliva of health young adults could be an early warning sign […]

Municipalities around Israel have been rushing to create outdoor exercise equipment in the belief that they are popular and being used regularly by the residents (who face municipality elections this fall).  But a new study at the University of Haifa’s School of Public Health has found that only about half of those who go to […]

Two weeks ago, 38-year-old Tatiana Cohen and her husband arrived at a hotel in Tel Aviv to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, but that romantic night turned into a battle for the lives of Tatiana and the baby in her uterus.  “We went out to a restaurant together that evening and when we came back […]

A 25-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC) after being seriously injured in a fall at his workplace. The trauma team diagnosed an unstable spine fracture that put the man at immediate risk for paralysis and other severe neurological damage.   After assessing the patient, Dr. Cezar […]

A study by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has discovered that people aged 65 and over who have received vaccinations are significantly less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. The study highlighted the importance of vaccinations for protecting against infectious diseases and dementia. The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s […]