Is banana peel the “magic” anti-aging secret you throw away?

A woman in her 40s left users of TikTok shocked, after revealing that thanks to the peel of one product that we all throw away  – she manages to prevent the signs of aging that come with time. The 42-year-old revealed to social media surfers how she manages to turn back the clock without injecting […]

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How do children recover easily from colds during the first three years?

Parents of young children remember how often they had to take off work to care for them at home when they got a cold. Whether novel respiratory viruses like COVID-19 or routine respiratory viruses, the preschoolers lacked repeated exposures that could provide long-term immune protection.  They still managed to recover remarkably well, but how they […]

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Israeli health tech company uses AI to expand stroke detection

Aidoc, a leading Israeli innovator in clinical AI, has recently introduced its “Full Brain Solution,” a new AI-driven medical technology that has the potential to significantly enhance patient care. The Full Brain Solution utilizes artificial intelligence to identify suspected strokes, expanding its capabilities to detect medium vessel occlusions (MeVOs) and both posterior and anterior large […]

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Israeli teens are increasingly suffering from mental distress – study

More Israeli adolescents are experiencing mental distress on a daily basis and fewer are experimenting with cannabis, while tobacco use and binge drinking are on the rise, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) study conducted by Prof. Yossi Harel-Fisch and his research team at the Faculty of […]

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Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus found in Negev

Mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus were found along Highway 90 near the Arava, the Environmental Protection and Health ministries reported. The infected mosquitoes were found in Paran, Elifaz, Yotvata, and Sapir Center. The Environmental Protection Ministry instructed the Central Arava and Hevel Eilot regional councils to conduct increased monitoring efforts and, if necessary, to […]

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Buying exercise clothes online can harm women’s body image – study

Many women who run or exercise at the gym spend as much money on their workout clothes as a fancy dress for a night out. Though it’s just as likely to be worn while lounging on the couch as in the gym, a large driver of activewear’s popularity among women is its association with a […]

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Israeli researchers treat cancer with RNA-based treatment – study

Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) destroyed 90% of the multiple myeloma blood cancer cells under lab conditions and 60% in human tissues taken from patients at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva – using an RNA-based drug delivered to the cells by targeted lipid nanoparticles. The researchers developed lipid-based nanoparticles – like […]

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US researchers develop revolutionary ‘cancer-killing’ pill

US researchers at City of Hope have found a new way to treat cancer via a targeted chemotherapy pill that can kill solid tumors, according to a recent study. The findings of this study were published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Cell Chemical Biology. The drug in question, dubbed AOH1996, works by targeting a specific […]

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This is why your skin color doesn’t change until hours after you tan

It seems odd that beachgoers who toast themselves in the sun notice only when they return home hours or even days later that their skin has changed color and become tanned.  A new Tel Aviv University (TAU) study has uncovered the science behind the mystery of why the body’s tanning process doesn’t show up immediately […]

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How your genes may determine whether you can be an endurance athlete

For some of us, no matter how consistently we train, running never seems to get any easier – while others appear to be naturally gifted and can run for miles with ease. Part of this comes down to factors such as the kind of training you do or your diet, but our recent study has […]

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