Category: Health

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One of the country’s richest hospitals, which caters to Hollywood elites, accepted nearly $28 million last year from an unusual source: a charity that siphons money from other California hospitals, many of which serve the state’s poorest residents. Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles secured the grant under California’s recession-era financing scheme […]

Many women know how crucial it is to be tested yearly for early diagnoses of breast cancer because it’s the most common cancer among women in Israel and around the world. However, it’s important to recognize and raise awareness of other types of cancer too. This is especially true for those that may be dangerous […]

Every responsible parent knows that small children need to be supervised around pools. Staying in it alone is a real danger, but it turns out that disaster can still strike. Nikki Jurkotz, a paramedic and first aid educator at Tiny Hearts, said that drowning is the main cause of death for children between the ages […]

Dairy products are more complex than you’d expect. There are those who believe it is bad for your body, those who avoid them for moral reasons, those who believe that it is simply not tasty, and there are also those who cannot go a day without consuming them. Regardless of how dairy products make you […]

Five miscarried embryos were kept in a lab for a few years and not buried, without the families being informed, the Yoseftal Medical Center in Eilat announced on Wednesday, according to Israeli media. On Tuesday, the hospital received a notification from a pathology lab in Ness Ziona that five embryos that were miscarried five to […]

Although Jewish children and adolescents born in Ethiopia who came recently on aliyah received little or no adequate examination and treatment for ophthalmological conditions, they have fewer vision problems here than native-born Israeli kids.  This surprising finding has been discovered in a first study of its kind by researchers at Assuta Ashdod Hospital, Ben-Gurion and […]

. It was a regrettable mistake. But Kim Sylvester thought she was doing the right thing at the time. Her 80-year-old mother, Harriet Burkel, had fallen at her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, fractured her pelvis, and gone to a rehabilitation center to recover. It was only days after the death of Burkel’s 82-year-old husband, […]

US Surgeon-General Dr. Vivek Murthy urged on Wednesday in an official 21-page advisory that action be taken to ensure social media environments are healthy and safe for young people.  While social media may offer some benefits, he said, “There are ample indicators that social media can also pose a risk of harm to the mental […]

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Sara Young packed a bag of essentials, gathered her kids, and fled her home to a refuge: an old, green house that blended in with the neighborhood in this southwestern Montana city. Nothing about the house identified it as a domestic violence shelter — it was hidden in plain sight. Young wasn’t […]

When John Mestas’ ancestors moved to Colorado over 100 years ago to raise sheep in the San Luis Valley, they “hit paradise,” he said. “There was so much water, they thought it would never end,” Mestas said of the agricultural region at the headwaters of the Rio Grande. Now decades of climate change-driven drought, combined […]