Category: Health

It’s not only dogs, cats, and horses that make beneficial therapy animals for the sick, depressed, disabled, and elderly. Female and male cows can do it too, according to a new study carried out by scientists at New York University (NYU) and the US Military Academy at West Point in New York State.  The researchers […]

Hope is always our best option Many years ago, when taking my [psychology] licensing exam, I was confronted with a complex question on depression. I suddenly found myself going back to a topic in animal behavior research that had previously caught my attention: the concept of helplessness. I formulated an elaborate answer having to do […]

Based on information from 44 countries that engaged in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, it highlights unhealthy eating habits, increasing levels of overweight and obesity and low levels of physical activity in young people. According to WHO, each of these are “significant risk factors for a range of noncommunicable diseases including cardiovascular […]

Oct. 7 at Soroka was, by far, the largest mass casualty incident in Israeli history, Dr. Shlomi Codish, director-general of Soroka Medical Center, Clalit confirmed earlier this week. To provide a sense of what it was like for the staff and patients at the hospital in Beersheba, situated just 40 km. from Gaza, Codish began […]

According to the UN agency, between 2019 and 2021 – the early years of the global health emergency – life expectancy around the world dropped by 1.8 years to 71.4 years, which is the 2012 level.  Responding to the findings, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the fragility of global health advances when confronted with […]

Many people suffering from depression are ashamed to come to a psychiatric facility to be treated. Now, a new study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has studied the effects of guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) from afar for the treatment of this mood disorder, focusing on the therapeutic alliance and attachment styles.  The […]

On the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, marked annually on 23 May, we are taking a look at the important role of midwives and tuning in to UN Radio’s featurette from 1963, The Magic Suitcase, narrated by Hollywood star Jack Benny. The radio and television entertainer joined the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the 1960s […]

A dairy farmworker in Michigan has been found to be infected with H5N1 avian influenza, the second human case of bird flu associated with an ongoing outbreak of the virus among dairy cows, Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday. A nasal swab of the worker tested negative, but an eye swab […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) study, conducted in partnership with Reaching the Last Mile (RLM), a global health initiative to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), found that rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are altering the spread of vector-borne diseases, posing significant health risks. As the geographical spread of disease vectors like mosquitoes expand, the […]