Category: Health

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who apparently lost consciousness and fell over the weekend and was rushed to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, underwent on Sunday the implantation directly into his heart of a Micra single-chamber pacemaker that is about the size of a vitamin pill. This device, which is now used in some patients […]

For many years, people who suffer from fibromyalgia never got any sort of proper response from medical professionals. They were all told that they were healthy people who had pain, and it was just something they had to live with. But today, this is fortunately no longer the case. “Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome […]

A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that only a small number of US government policies worry about ultra-processed foods – including industrially produced packaged snacks, fruit-flavored drinks, and hot dogs that have been linked to obesity and certain cancers – and thus they lag behind countries such as Israel, […]

“Children want dolls they can relate to, dolls that look like them,” says Tami Gutman, a special education teacher at ADI Jerusalem. ADI is an acronym for “ability, diversity, inclusion.” “For children with severe disabilities and complex medical conditions, dolls that mirror their life situations are not available in neighborhood toy stores, so I decided […]

Fats are divided into two types: one kind that is beneficial for heart health, such as vegetable oils and fatty marine fish, and the other kind, types that are harmful to the heart, such as animal fats such as meat and hydrogenated fats. The German Nutrition Association explained that the fats that are beneficial for […]

The Thai authorities are working alongside UN agencies to not just improve the availability of services following the change in the way people are sentenced for drugs crimes, but also reduce the stigmatization of people who use drugs and ensure they have access to services where they feel comfortable. UN News spoke with the UNAIDS Country […]

If you have trouble sleeping well at night, it may be time to give up some problematic sleeping habits. Dr. Karan Raj, a lecturer at the University of Sunderland in England, shared five things he claims you should avoid doing before bed with his 5.1 million followers on TikTok. The first is to go to […]

“About half of the world’s population is at risk of dengue, and dengue affects approximately 129 countries,” said Dr Raman Velayudhan, WHO’s Head of the Global Programme on control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. “We estimate that about 100 to 400 million cases are reported every year. This is basically an estimate and the American region alone […]

The inflammatory response is indispensable for protective immunity, but microbial pathogens often trigger an excessive response called cytokine storm that is harmful to the host. Despite recent advances in our understanding of inflammatory signaling, how to prevent a cytokine storm remains a challenge.  Now, a “groundbreaking” study at the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew […]

A lot has been written and said about the gut microbiome – the community of bacteria, viruses, fungi and archaea that lives in our intestines. But the gut is not the only place that has a microbiome. The mouth, nose, skin, lungs and genitals have microbiomes of their own. And they all play an important […]