Category: Health

In what was very big news for global health, this week the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended a new vaccine for the prevention of malaria in children, called R21/Matrix-M. Malaria, caused by infection with Plasmodium parasites and transmitted via mosquitoes, still causes many millions of cases and more than 600,000 deaths annually, the majority in […]

The riddle presented here demands a high level of concentration. The image displays an incorrect exercise. Your task is to rectify the mistake by moving just one matchstick. Can you solve it? Take a look at the exercise before you, comprised of 19 matchsticks. Your goal is to relocate a single matchstick to make […]

Vegetarians think they decided to forgo eating meat, fish, and poultry because they oppose killing animals, religious, environmental or health reasons, or simply because grains, fruits, vegetables and are most tasty.  A substantial body of evidence points to the heritability of dietary preferences. While vegetarianism has been practiced for millennia in various societies, its […]

Women are programmed to quickly respond to their baby’s cries. Now, researchers at New York University (NYU) have found that, at least in lab mice, hearing the sound of a newborn’s wail can trigger the release of oxytocin – a brain chemical that controls breast milk release in mothers. The researchers found that once […]

About 6% of people in the UK are wrongly labelled on their medical records as being allergic to penicillin, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has warned. This figure is concerning because being labelled as allergic to this class of highly effective antibiotics is associated with an extra six deaths per 1,000 patients a year after being […]

Diagnostic errors in medicine can have devastating consequences, affecting millions of people each year. Studies conducted in high-income countries reveal that nearly 5% of adults experience medical diagnosis errors annually, with more than half of them potentially resulting in severe harm. Moreover, experts believe that the rate of misdiagnosis in low-income countries could be […]

October is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month. During this month, as with all other months, the Israel Rett Syndrome Association (IRSA), makes special efforts to highlight the genetic condition. “Rett syndrome is a severe rare genetic neurological disorder that occurs almost exclusively in girls, more rarely in boys, and leads to severe impairments, affecting nearly […]

In March 2023, NHS midwife Olukemi Akinmeji won an employment tribunal case against the hospital in Kent where, as an employee, she had faced race discrimination and victimisation. That same month, Michelle Cox, a healthcare manager and senior nurse, won a case against NHS England and NHS Improvement Commissioning in Manchester. She too had faced […]

The Environmental Protection Ministry will take steps to curb the population of a species of Mosquito in Israel in order to prevent further cases of Dengue fever, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday. This comes in the wake of reports that an Israeli had contracted the virus while on vacation in Thailand. The Environmental […]

The world has waited decades for a malaria vaccine, and now two have come along in quick succession. On October 2, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that a new malaria vaccine, R21, developed by the University of Oxford be rolled out for the prevention of malaria in children, just two years after another vaccine, […]