Category: Health

As human beings, we are wired from birth for social connection. We smile, coo in a higher pitched voice, and even nurse our young from a perfect focal length for optimal mother-infant bonding. With time and as we age, however, we have become increasingly more isolated and disconnected. This is especially true in our post-COVID […]

An American minor was recently infected with the swine flu A (H1N2) variant virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Saturday. The child, from Michigan, caught the virus at an agriculture fair. Swine flu is a zoonotic disease that circulates among the pig population in many parts of the world. Humans generally catch it […]

Upon taking office, the Netanyahu government immediately cancelled the soft-drink tax under pressure from the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) parties – and to the great dismay of health experts – because such beverages are cheap and especially popular in that sector. Now, a new study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston’s Massachusetts General Healthcare System has […]

People who take acid reflux medications called proton-pump inhibitors for four-and-a-half years or more could have a higher risk of dementia compared to people who do not take these medications, according to research just published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.  Acid reflux occurs when stomach acid flows into the […]

The outbreak, which escalated rapidly since late June, has seen a total of 69,483 confirmed cases and 327 related deaths between 1 January and 7 August, with a case fatality rate of 0.47 per cent, according to the UN health agency. The cases were reported from all 64 districts in the country. In July alone, […]

The Lancet, one of Britain’s most prestigious medical journals, is no less interested in Israeli physicians’ worries about the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform than our own doctors are. It has just published an article by Israelis and an expert from Washington, DC that calls it a “threat to the Health in All Policies Approach” (HiAP) […]

A young mother sits on a low wooden stool above burning embers from a piece of bark placed in a small earthenware pot. A bright purple and white cloth covers her legs and keeps the smoke from escaping. This is part of a lower-body treatment process for mothers who have given birth as teenagers. She […]

United Hatzalah released a YouTube video this week starring founder Eli Beer cautioning parents against leaving children in hot cars and driving the point home by cooking Beer’s own schnitzel recipe using the heat of a closed car. In the video, Beer, pretends to be hosting a cooking show until he reaches the frying stage […]

Microwaving your baby’s bottle may be exposing them to high levels of harmful micro- and nanoplastics, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, examined how baby food containers release micro- and nanoplastics under different conditions and the possible health effects of such plastic particles. Researchers from […]

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 […]