Category: Health

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first over-the-counter contraceptive pill, paving the way for millions of women to purchase birth control without a prescription in the country. The daily contraceptive Opill, sold by Perrigo PRGO.N, was first approved for prescription use in 1973, and the over-the-counter approval clears the way for […]

There is a serious shortage of nurses in Israel, with this country; while the OECD average is 9.4 per 1,000, Israeli hospitals and clinics have only five nurses per 1,000 people on average – a slight increase from the reported 4.7 in 2010, but still far below the average The recent progress in the field […]

Diplomatic relations between Jordan and Israel are not very cordial, but among medical establishments and personnel in the two countries, politics is fortunately irrelevant.  Surgeons at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus have this week performed very difficult but successful surgery on a seven-year-old girl from Amman who was born with a severe and increasingly painful […]

A new development in diabetes technology could change the lives of millions of people with insulin-dependent diabetes. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org On Tuesday, the Israeli company, Betalin Therapeutics, announced progress in creating a “micro pancreas.” The experimental therapy, which is still in the preclinical trial stage, could ultimately free […]

Lung cancer is often caught too late. As a result, it has one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers. To detect it earlier, NHS England is rolling out a nationwide screening programme that has already begun in some areas, but will ramp up from 2025. Smokers and former smokers aged 55 to 74 […]

Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have found that the widely used Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement – a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters – is less sensitive for determining obesity than what doctors previously thought. The researchers urge that community health and hospital outpatient clinics be equipped […]

There are no drugs to treat long COVID – a condition that affects around 2 million people in the UK alone – so you can imagine the excitement when a cheap diabetes drug called metformin was shown to decrease the risk of getting the disease. The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, showed that […]

Three gender affirming surgeries were performed at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya for the first time, the hospital announced on Tuesday. The surgeries took place under the leadership of Prof. Loren Schechter, an American expert, and as a collaboration between the Galilee Medical Center and the Sheba Medical Center. Sheba Medical Center is the […]

Mandatory COVID vaccination as a condition of employment has been a commonly used – though controversial – policy around the world during the pandemic. Much of the debate on vaccine mandates has rightly focused on ethical issues. For some people, considerations such as the right to refuse healthcare and objections to the use of coercion […]

Summer has arrived, which means that we’re trying to ventilate our houses in every possible way. It also means leaving the windows open to allow as much air as possible. This, however, might invite some unwanted critters. Specifically, flies and fruit flies looking for a moist place to hide. Have you tried all the possible tricks […]