It has become a global problem that not just adults, but children, too, are less and less physically active, according to experts at the the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Medical Miracles
According to a team of researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Stanford University, the state of a person’s immune system provides a far more accurate measurement of a person’s health than physical signs or even chronological age.
Leukemic stem cells are the most malignant of all leukemic cells. Understanding how leukemic stem cells are regulated has become an important area of cancer research.
Nechama Rivlin, the 73-year-old wife of Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, has undergone a lung transplant following a serious decline in her condition due to chronic pulmonary fibrosis. She received the lung from a 19-year-old young man, Yair Yehezkel Halbali, who drowned in Eilat.
The world is increasingly drying up, with hot winds and inadequate rainfall – coupled with overgrazing, urbanization and climate change –turning more and more land into deserts.
I am in the process of being fitted for a third digital hearing aid. I went to three audiologists and a hearing aid company. Neither of them measured the difference between hearing without hearing aids and hearing with them.
Halevy constantly says that when he chooses new hospital department heads and other senior physicians and nurses, he selects them as much for their compassion for human beings as for their professional expertise.
A computerized tool for identifying autism symptoms based on the movements of a child in a diagnostic room and his interaction with the clinician has been developed by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has just celebrated the Albert Einstein’s 140th with a cake, a visit from Texas of his cousin – and the presentation of 110 original manuscripts to its Einstein Archives.
The introduction a decade ago by Israel’s Health Ministry of the Prevnar (PCV) vaccine to the immunization schedule of the country’s babies has reduced hospitalizations as the direct result of Streptococcus pneumoniae dipped by a staggering 62%.
The proportion of Israeli Arab women who go to work outside the home has for many years been much longer than that of Israeli Jewish women. There have been cultural and educational problems causing this.
Researchers at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv have found that the time you snooze clears out damage to the DNA in your cells that accumulates during the time you’re awake.
A friend of mine told me about a workout he was doing called “vibration training. He told me that he stands on a vibrating device for 10 to 30 minutes. During this time, the person also does various exercises.
The ancient Greek storyteller Aesop wrote about the hard-working ant who toiled all summer to stock his anthill with food; winter comes, and he has enough to eat. But the foolhardy grasshopper gorges himself during the sunny season and doesn’t prepare for a rainy, cold day; winter comes, and the grasshopper goes hungry.
Colorectal cancer – one of the biggest killers in the world – can be prevented by good health habits and can be cured if polyps are detected and removed early with a colonoscopy, in the precancerous stage.
