Category: Health

It isn’t only their smokers’ lungs that get filthy from tar, nicotine, and about 70 other toxins known to cause cancer. In rooms where smoking has taken place regularly, tobacco’s imprint lingers on indoor surfaces – even long after regular smoking has stopped.  The leftover residues, known as “third-hand smoke,” can be a long-term source […]

The Knesset Health Committee headed by Shas MK Uriel Busso wants to change the name of physicians’ assistant (ozer la’rofeh in Hebrew) to physicians’ associate (amit rofeh). This, according to dozens of medical societies in the Israel Medical Association (IMA) who petitioned against the change, gives the misleading impression that the person is almost a […]

An Australian anthropologist claims that our faces are “becoming more and more inferior” and names, among the culprits for this, the modern diet, sleep patterns, and light exposure habits. Humans are becoming uglier – and it has nothing to do with aging, claims a plastic surgeon and expert in facial surgery, who explained the theory […]

The first survey of its kind in Israel about teens playing online games presents a worrisome picture of exposure to unsuitable content, violence, obscenities, and dangerous offers.  More than 40% of the youth playing online games were exposed to very inappropriate content. About 66% of them complained to a parent or somebody else about how […]

Most lung cancer patients are smokers or have kicked the habit. There are also nonsmokers who develop lung cancer as well, and they can be treated effectively with new drugs on the market. But these medications tend to lose effectiveness as time goes on because the malignancies develop secondary mutations in a gene called EGFR […]

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. In 2019, it caused over 1.27 million deaths worldwide – and it’s projected to partly contribute to ten million deaths per year by 2050. Antibiotic resistance can affect anyone, of any age, in any part of the world. Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections such […]

Public health and sports medicine specialists have recommended that people walk 10,000 steps a day to promote good health. But that number doesn’t seem to be holy. The number of steps you should walk every day to start seeing benefits to your health is lower than previously thought, according to the largest analysis ever to […]

A “hair whorl” – which occurs in both hairy animals such as horses on their body and head and humans on their heads – is a patch of hair growing in a circular pattern around a visible center point. Also known as crowns, swirls, or trichoglyphs, they can be either clockwise or counterclockwise in direction […]

Plastic surgery is on the rise among Israeli youth, according to a new report from the Israel Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons/ The report found a 37% increase in the demand for plastic surgery among teenagers this summer. The report, which was published in early August, outlines the most popular procedures among Israel’s young citizens. […]

EG.5 is a sublineage of the omicron variant and has been detected in the United States and several other countries including China, South Korea and Japan, according to media reports. “The risk remains of a more dangerous variant emerging that could cause a sudden increase in cases and deaths,” he said. Tedros recalled that three […]