Medicine

About 30% of the population may develop post-trauma disorders in the next few months. Israel is confronting the most severe mental trauma wave since its founding, according to psychiatry experts. The mental health system is already inundated with unresolved requests for help. Waiting lists stretch for months, and health maintenance …

It’s often overlooked and left to its own devices, but should you listen to your gut more, or is it listening to you? Here’s what the science says Until fairly recently, the idea of listening to your gut was mostly metaphorical. The heart, lungs and liver are important to keep …

From chalk to rubbers and clay, there are a variety of reasons why those with pica syndrome yearn to eat non-foodstuffs. But is this dangerous? Mary (not her real name), a 20-year-old from Ireland, has just kicked her habit – of eating firelighters. “I got through a box of individually …

A negotiator, a psychologist, a wedding planner, a conflict mediator and a maitre d’ share their hard-earned techniques for keeping the peace at Christmas Ah, Christmas – a time to come together with family, mark the year that’s been and, for many of us, devolve into explosive, regrettable arguments before …

Alexia and Joel, both 80, met in a cafe – within a week they had arranged to live together. A decade later they still do, splitting their time between California and Colorado In 2010, Alexia considered herself “happily single”. Having been married twice, she was enjoying life and in no …

As clock ticks, doctors deliver and perform immediate surgery on 35-week preemie, in bid to preserve her future fertility and hormonal health In a procedure Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem is calling the first case of its kind in the world, doctors saved both ovaries of a premature fetus by …

Edity is programming the body’s own immune cells to carry therapeutics to places where treatment normally cannot reach To protect itself against disease, the human body has immune cells that patrol like police officers, entering disease cells and destroying them. But some dangerous cells, including some solid tumors, operate in …

With only a handheld scanner and tablet, non-cardiologists at Sheba can use AISAP platform to get a report interpreting 8 critical heart functions seen from just 2 imaging angles A group of physician-entrepreneurs at Sheba Medical Center have developed a product that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to …

The Tel Aviv University team focused on metastatic cancers. The executive director of the Georgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance is excited about the latest research coming out of Israel that indicates a new potential treatment for aggressive and metastatic cancers resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy. “For years, Israel has been on …

Bright colors, fruity flavors, and nicotine are getting kids as young as 12 hooked on vaping, while adults’ outdoor secondhand smoke is embedding itself deep in children’s bodies In recent months, two Israeli teenage boys were hospitalized with collapsed lungs caused by vaping, or smoking electronic cigarettes. One recovered, but …