Category: Health

An Israel Defense Forces reservist, Eliran Mizrachi of Ma’aleh Adumim, tragically took his own life earlier this month after serving for a long period in Gaza, getting a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), undergoing treatment that was not successfully concluded and being called up prematurely for additional reserve duty. Psychiatrists asserted that he was […]

The fifth edition of the report, released by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), revealed that air pollution caused 8.1 million deaths worldwide in 2021 and many millions are dealing with debilitating chronic diseases, leaving healthcare systems, economies, and societies. Further, it found that children under five are particularly vulnerable to air pollution, leaving over 700,000 […]

Data presented at a Knesset Health Committee meeting today indicated that one in five adults in Israel smokes, with the rate climbing to one in two among haredi (ultra-Orthodox) adults. The committee raised alarms about the high prevalence of smoking and the growing addiction to electronic cigarettes, which are reportedly four times more addictive than […]

Israel has the highest rate in the OECD countries of leg amputations due, among other reasons, to arterial blockages that are left untreated.   Ordinarily, leg artery catheterization is carried out by inflating balloons or implanting supportive metal stents inside the blood vessel – but unfortunately, this method doesn’t always fully resolve the problem. The […]

Aging of bodily tissues typically causes them to break down and eventually fail. However, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot have discovered that biological processes that are usually linked to aging are, in fact, vital for the regeneration of heart tissue.  This surprising conclusion emerges from a study just published in the […]

We are worried, we are frustrated, we are nervous, we are scared. There is no point in denying it, we are “under the gun” – literally – from virtually every direction. In the blink of an eye – heref ayin, as it’s called – we have seen and felt the walls closing in on us. […]

In raw milk samples spiked with high amounts of bird flu virus, small amounts of infectious virus were still detectable after treatment with a standard pasteurization method, researchers said on Friday. The findings reflect experimental conditions in a laboratory and should not be used to draw any conclusions about the safety of the US milk […]

Coffee is not only a beverage without which many people can’t start their day. Doctors have been discovering a variety of health benefits from the tasty drink, including lengthening life, being able to process sugar better, less likely to get heart failure, a stroke, and liver disease; your DNA strands will be strong, as weak […]

Biomarkers or chemical concentrations linked to lung cancer in human breath can be detected by honeybees that – amazingly – can also distinguish among different types of malignancy via only the “smell’ of the cell cultures. Researchers at the Michigan State University’s College of Engineering and its Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering said […]