Category: Health

After the first Omicron wave, many of the risks of Covid infection changed. Before February 2022, wearing face masks and being over 70 were credited with a reduced risk of being infected by others – but not after that, according to a new study at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, the UK.  […]

The number of women medical professionals who are seen in hospital operating theaters has not increased in decades. Men still rule in the field. In fact, in most countries, female anesthesiologists and surgeons have increased by only about five percent over 10 years. Now, researchers writing in the British Journal of Surgery published by Oxford […]

A variant of the H5N1 subtype of bird flu that infected mink in October 2022 has shown some ability to transmit between ferrets through the air, albeit inefficiently, according to a new study published on Wednesday. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, was conducted by researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Emory […]

There are genetic connections between the chronic condition inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the incurable Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.  The significant discovery – just published in the journal Genome Medicine titled, “The landscape of rare genetic variation associated with […]

COVID-19 caused chaos in almost every aspect of daily life, including consumer and retailer behavior. In Israel, people rushed from store to store to find alcohol gel, masks, and saliva tests. When the pandemic slowed, lots of face masks and alcohol gel containers were left on the shelf. That wasn’t the first pandemic that changed […]

Israelis are not used to long wars. In the recent past, the wars that they fought had limited timelines. Whether due to internal political pressures or powerful world pressures, Israel has always been put in a vulnerable position in its fight to protect itself. As I write these words, we see the same thing being […]

You’re bought a car, protected even from a fingerprint with plastic bags. Congratulations! But you are unaware that the air inside all personal vehicles is polluted with harmful flame retardants – including those known or suspected to cause cancer.  According to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology under the title […]

But now, there could be an easier alternative in the form of patches that can be simply applied to the skin, much like a sticking plaster. Early data from a vaccine patch trial in the Gambia has shown promising indications that it could be effective in protecting children from measles. The UN World Health Organization […]