Category: Health

The potential effects of video games on mental health has been a long-drawn-out debate. Some people argue that relaxing with a video game has positive impacts on an individual, while others fear that video games can be addictive and promote negative mood changes. A new peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Sociological Focus, has sort out […]

Scientists have discovered that sodium selenate could be the answer to dementia treatment that medical professionals have been searching for. This new drug could provide crucial treatment for patients exhibiting early stages of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, most common in people aged 65 and under. This dementia variant is the second most common form in […]

Israel is home to more than half a million diabetics, as well as hundreds of thousands of others on the verge of diabetes. Many who are pre-diabetic may not even be aware of it. If you have been diagnosed with prediabetes, it means that your blood sugar levels are not high enough to be classified […]

A six-year-old boy has been hospitalized at Assuta Ashdod Hospital since Saturday in serious condition, after choking on a jelly bean. While walking with his mother in Ashdod and eating the candies, he suddenly coughed and choked and lost consciousness. Passersby called Magen David Adom medics, who were unable to remove the bean and rushed […]

Dr. Udi Ohayon, a psychotherapist and art therapist at the school at the Shahaf School at Bat Yam’s Abarbanel Mental Health Center, loves butterflies. An idea struck him that the teens at the hospital might benefit from watching the colorful insects, which could serve as a therapeutic tool. In fact, his unique “butterfly garden” at […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a 74-page report on Tuesday declaring that artificial sweeteners not only fail to reduce weight and body fat in adults and children but do not reduce the risk of chronic disease and may also have undesirable effects on health from long-term use.  Sugar should also be avoided, said the […]

A lack of environmental cues can have devastating effects on someone’s memory, a new study has found after attempting to understand how a parent could forget their child in a car. The recent peer-reviewed study, published in the journal APA PsychNet, details the result of an experiment in human memory. Why is it important that […]

The health of our gut is extremely important to our overall health. Think of the gut as a hollow tube that is a central connector between both ends of your body. What passes through the mouth and exits through the anus does not actually enter our body. In order to enter the body and reach […]

The autonomy of Israeli patients will expand on September 1 when they will be able to pick the hospital of their choice to undergo treatments in four more specialties – mental health services, gynecological surgery, neurosurgery and in-vitro fertilization. These join the oncology and obstetrics departments that patients could already choose without being told by […]

Until you gave birth to your first child, you probably didn’t think about the parents out walking their babies. Even if you focused on one mom, you probably assumed she was confident and knew how to handle her baby. After all, she’s the mom and she knows what the baby wants and needs. Then you […]