Category: Health

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 […]

A century-old movie starring Charlie Chaplin has helped researchers at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in Ramat Gan and the Paris Brain Institute to study the neural substrate of humor using a new tool. Until now, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that measures the small changes in blood flow that occur with brain activity has been the […]

Yad L’Olim had devised a new system to improve access to healthcare for Jews who have made aliyah to Israel from around the world, the Israeli immigrant advocacy group’s government relations department announced this week. Under the new government budget, funds will be dedicated to ensuring that healthcare facilities are able to recruit medical experts […]

KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell discussed Colorado facility schools on Rocky Mountain Community Radio on May 12. Click here to hear Bichell on Rocky Mountain Community Radio Read Bichell’s “Students in Rural Colorado Are Left Without Options as Specialized Schools Close” KFF Health News former senior editor Andy Miller discussed lead contamination […]

Michelle Andrews “We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in some cases 10 times more than the people of any other country.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), in an April 30, 2023, interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whether in Congress or as a presidential […]