Dr. Amir Orlev, a senior cardiac catheterization specialist and director of the cardiology department at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC), was on the way to work when he noticed a man lying on the side of the road. Nobody else paid any attention to him. He called an ambulance, drove him to the hospital, […]
Continue ReadingTwo elderly women in their 80s died at noon on Saturday at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus after allegedly contracting West Nile fever, Maariv reported. At least twenty-five residents of central Israel, the majority of whom are in their seventies, have been hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital and Sheba Medical Center after contracting the deadly virus. […]
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The couple had gone to Maternity Hospital No. 5 in the port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine. The facility is known for its comprehensive maternity care and had earned some local fame as the birthplace of quintuplets. But, just after Ms. Chebotar delivered her baby, an air raid alarm sounded over the city, which […]
Continue ReadingThe Health Ministry has warned of the rise in West Nile virus cases this year and called for residents to take increased precautions in a message on Friday. The Ministry announced that since the beginning of May, 19 people had been diagnosed with West Nile virus, of which 17 were hospitalized and three were […]
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The agency’s Eastern Mediterranean Region reported the highest number of cases, followed by the African Region, the Region of the Americas, the Southeast Asia Region, and the European Region. There were no reported cases in the Western Pacific Region, it said in a bulletin issued on Wednesday. Vaccines and resurgence The UN health agency said […]
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When toddlers who grow up in disadvantaged homes reach the age of two or three, they have already fallen behind their peers at the age of birth to the age of two-years-old, who come from privileged homes, in terms of linguistic advancement. The serious lag in language development can be blamed on the lack of […]
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The spurious semaglutides – of a specific brand Ozempic – were found in Brazil, the United Kingdom in October 2023, and the United States in December 2023, and were delivered through a regular supply chain. The WHO’s official notice follows reports of “falsified semaglutide products” across all geographical regions from its Global Surveillance and Monitoring […]
Continue ReadingWith the arrival of summer, the danger of skin cancer increases. Every month, an average of 167 Israelis contract this malignancy. Hundreds of health fund clinics representing all four public health insurers are offering free skin examinations by dermatologists and plastic surgeons during National Skin Cancer Awareness Week from Monday, June 24, through Sunday, […]
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An Israel Defense Forces reservist, Eliran Mizrachi of Ma’aleh Adumim, tragically took his own life earlier this month after serving for a long period in Gaza, getting a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), undergoing treatment that was not successfully concluded and being called up prematurely for additional reserve duty. Psychiatrists asserted that he was […]
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The fifth edition of the report, released by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), revealed that air pollution caused 8.1 million deaths worldwide in 2021 and many millions are dealing with debilitating chronic diseases, leaving healthcare systems, economies, and societies. Further, it found that children under five are particularly vulnerable to air pollution, leaving over 700,000 […]
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