Category: Health

Recent media reports have highlighted the issue of nurses coming to the UK to work for the NHS from poorer countries with their own nursing shortfalls. This is a problem because when nurses leave countries that already have workforce shortages, healthcare in those countries inevitably suffers. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than […]

The Israel Association of Public Health Physicians and Ear, Nose and Throat Physicians Society of the Israel Medical Association have called on Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and the Israel Police to strictly limit the use of water cannons to control demonstrators. The water cannon used as a “stun gun,” they explained, has the air pressure […]

An extreme heatwave is expected to make its way through Israel starting on Wednesday, according to a report by Israel Meteorological Service, and is expected to worsen toward the end of the week. The Health Ministry has put together some important advice on how to avoid damage to your health from the heat. For the […]

While practicing diving in Greece, Barak Haruvi of Eilat suddenly felt severe pain. The38-year-old diving instructor was told by doctors there to return urgently to Israel where he was diagnosed with a complicated and life-threatening malformation of a vein in the abdominal wall. The unique treatment he underwent at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Ein Kerem, […]

A new study by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) has opened up exciting possibilities for developing interventions to combat age-related metabolic diseases and enhance healthy aging. These far-reaching implications significantly advance our understanding of the intricate interplay among energy metabolism, aging and lifespan regulation.  Led by Dr. Itamar Harel from HU’s Silberman […]

Alzheimer’s disease is often thought of as a condition that only affects the elderly. But around 3.9 million people worldwide aged 30-64 live with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease – a form of dementia in which symptoms appear before the age of 65. English journalist and broadcaster Fiona Phillips, 62, recently revealed that she’d been diagnosed with […]

That’s the message from UNAIDS, the UN agency dedicated to ending the epidemic, which said on Thursday that truly eradicating it boils down to a “political and financial choice”.  The agency’s Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, said that today’s leaders have the opportunity to save millions of lives and be “remembered by future generations” as those […]

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first over-the-counter contraceptive pill, paving the way for millions of women to purchase birth control without a prescription in the country. The daily contraceptive Opill, sold by Perrigo PRGO.N, was first approved for prescription use in 1973, and the over-the-counter approval clears the way for […]

There is a serious shortage of nurses in Israel, with this country; while the OECD average is 9.4 per 1,000, Israeli hospitals and clinics have only five nurses per 1,000 people on average – a slight increase from the reported 4.7 in 2010, but still far below the average The recent progress in the field […]

Diplomatic relations between Jordan and Israel are not very cordial, but among medical establishments and personnel in the two countries, politics is fortunately irrelevant.  Surgeons at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus have this week performed very difficult but successful surgery on a seven-year-old girl from Amman who was born with a severe and increasingly painful […]