Category: Health

Speaking at the event on Thursday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus underscored the “enormous” contributions of traditional medicine to human health and its understanding of the “intimate links” between health and the environment. Tedros stressed the importance of the gathering for “bringing together ancient wisdom and modern science for the health and well-being of people […]

Maintaining an active lifestyle as you age might seem challenging, particularly for those who consider themselves “too busy” or financially constrained to invest in gyms, classes, or personal trainers. Yet, some demonstrate that staying fit and healthy is achievable at any age, even without breaking the bank. Take Japan, for instance, a country known for […]

Most people will have heard the term “man flu”, which refers to men’s perceived tendency to exaggerate the severity of a cold or a similar minor ailment. What most people may not know is that, generally speaking, women mount stronger immune responses to infections than men. Men are more susceptible to infections from, for example, […]

From a young age, Galila Yohannes began to show signs of a visual field disorder that impaired her ability to function independently until further deterioration began and she almost lost her sight.  Now aged six, she was taken by her worried parents – foreign workers who came from Eritrea – to the outpatient eye institute […]

Governments and households around the world spent fortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic on equipment to detect an infection. Yet scientists in California who have conducted a meta-analysis of more than two-dozen studies showed there was an easier way: A dog’s nose knows. It’s an idea that has finally gained scientific consensus: As any dog owner […]

People who adopt dogs from animal shelters are excited about their new pets. However, when shelter dogs followed at their new homes for six months after they were brought home were studied by researchers at Ohio State University (OSU), it was discovered that the pets showed negative behaviors like stranger aggression or training problems.  Nevertheless, […]

Every case of breast cancer in women (and a minority of men) is somewhat different. A new model developed in Israel for the first time determines the personal genetic risk for malignancy based on the genetic profile of each patient.  This, according to researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU), could form the basis for the […]

The octopus not only has eight arms – this soft-bodied mollusk with two eyes and a beaked mouth in the center has a lot of brainpower.  Prof. Benny Hochner of the Institute of Life Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) and Prof. Jeff Lichtman of Harvard University in Boston and their teams have uncovered […]

A “groundbreaking” study conducted at Ariel University has reported significant advances from using nanotechnology to refine photodynamic therapy (PDT) for breast cancer treatment.  PDT has been known for over 100 years and has been shown to be very safe and effective treatment when it’s applied for conditions it has been licensed to treat. Currently gaining […]

A new novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) variant with dozens of mutations has been detected in new samples collected from patients in Israel and Denmark, with some virologists and data scientists stressing that while it’s too early to understand if the variant will spread effectively, it’s unique enough to warrant monitoring. The sample of the variant detected […]