Category: Health

The inflammatory response is indispensable for protective immunity, but microbial pathogens often trigger an excessive response called cytokine storm that is harmful to the host. Despite recent advances in our understanding of inflammatory signaling, how to prevent a cytokine storm remains a challenge.  Now, a “groundbreaking” study at the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew […]

A lot has been written and said about the gut microbiome – the community of bacteria, viruses, fungi and archaea that lives in our intestines. But the gut is not the only place that has a microbiome. The mouth, nose, skin, lungs and genitals have microbiomes of their own. And they all play an important […]

Even before your children reached the age age two, you already knew that the famous tantrums everyone is talking about were coming. You may have met them earlier than you thought, around the age of one and a half. And now that your child is three years old, you are deep in the world of […]

After holding a hearing on Thursday morning with officials at Assuta’s private hospital in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hahayal, the Health Ministry ordered that its in-vitro fertilization unit must reduce its activity and that the hospital should appoint a senior expert from outside the medical center to supervise what is carried out, assist in updating procedures […]

Spending over 30 minutes per week speaking on the phone causes a 12% increased risk of developing high blood pressure, according to a new study published on May 4. The peer-reviewed study, published in The European Heart Journal – Digital Health, found that making and receiving phone calls increased the risk of hypertension.   “It’s […]

It’s well known that the COVID pandemic created unprecedented disruption in how healthcare was provided and delivered globally. With the emergency phase of the pandemic now behind us, it’s important to understand if and how these disruptions affected people’s health. In a new study published in the BMJ, my colleagues and I have shown that […]

The psychiatric history of fathers, as well as mothers’, is linked with preterm birth, according to a study just published by Swedish researchers in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. They showed for the first time that the risk of birth before the end of 40 weeks is higher in infants whose fathers or mothers have […]

Mothers with a mental illness are more likely to give birth too early, according to research. But the risk of preterm birth can also be affected by a father’s mental health. In our new study published in the journal PLOS Medicine, we found that fathers’ mental illness increases the risk of preterm birth and that […]

We all want to improve our lives, and we put a lot of effort into it. The basis of all self-improvement is high and healthy self-esteem. This is really the start of any valuable change we want to make. What is self-esteem? Self-esteem is your opinion about yourself. It’s influenced by factors such as your […]

Exercise is good for your overall health and your heart in particular. Guidelines recommend that we should be doing 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity a week. But does it matter when you do this exercise? Should you spread it out in the week or does it lose some of the benefit if you cram it […]