HEALTH & SCIENCE

Mechanism discovered to extend life of mice by tens of percentage points

There is potential for the same mechanism to be applied to humans as well.

Will Israeli technology render sperm obsolete?

With artificial sperm same-sex female couples could produce offspring that carry the genetic information of both female partners.

Israeli studies find eating fruits, tree nuts cuts risk of cancer

A study conducted at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine found that the balance of seven genes in glioblastoma model systems may predict a significant prolongation of patients’ lives.

Israeli-developed ALS treatment reversing motor decline breakthrough

Israeli firm leads new way to fight ALS, doesn't slow down the progress of the disease, reverses the damage it causes.

International Mathematical Olympiad to pick winners at Ariel University

The mathematics competition will conclude on Wednesday.

Israeli doctor elected head of World Medical Association

Dr. Leonid Edelman is the head of the anesthesiology department at the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva.

Israeli scientists publish articles on Nobel-winning research

Scientists from three institutions published articles on gravitational wave discoveries that won the Nobel Prize for physics.

Israeli doctors save Mongolian baby of Buddhist refugees

The couple, who arrived in Israel with language difficulties and without financial means, gave birth to their daughter at the Red Crescent Hospital in east Jerusalem.

First group of paramedic physician assistants to graduate course today

The immigrant PAs do not have to take a Hebrew-language test, which immigrant nurses have to do, but their Hebrew should be adequate to communicate with patients and colleagues.

Israeli inhaler transforming marijuana into prescribed doses

Syqe Medical develops only known metered-dose cannabis or plant-material inhaler.

The eyelids have it: Diagnosing disease by examining blinking

The technology is relatively simple because it does not require a camera, image processing or storing data in a “cloud.”

Nearly $4 million in private funds for cancer research

With the 2017/2018 grants, ICRF funding has now reached 2,348 grants totaling $63,866,500 since its inception.

Their ‘father in heaven’ saves lives

United Hatzalah, founded and presided over by Eli Beer, is changing the way, and the speed, how people are treated for illness and injuries.

Medical cannabis course to be offered at Jerusalem college

“We will teach all aspects of medical cannabis from infrastructure to agriculture, to how to grow it, as well as medical treatment, legal issues and business entrepreneurship,” said Dr. Michael Dor.

Navigating your way through cyberspace

An Oxford-educated Israeli psychologist explains the benefits and risks of the Internet to the English-speaking public with a new book.

Making science accessible: Israeli software dumbs down tech talk

Software developed at Israel's Technion is slated to make scientific research accessible to the wider public in ways it never was before.

Health Minister met with British-American Tobacco reps, lobbyists

Health ministers and other senior government officials are not supposed to meet with tobacco lobbyists.

United Hatzalah introduces world’s first narrow electric ambulance

The $45,000 vehicles, dubbed the mini-lance, can even get up stairs and over narrow sidewalks and streets.

Rivlin: Fighting killer cancer disease is target all Israelis agree on

“This disease does not distinguish between one person and another and threatens the lives of young people and adults from all parts of society,” he said at the Beit Hanassi ceremony.

How we tick: US ‘body clock’ scientists win Nobel medicine prize

Chronobiology, or the study of biological clocks, is now a growing field of research thanks to the pioneering work of the three scientists.

Israel saves Kurdish children with heart disease despite Erdogan criticism

To date, Israel's regional cooperation ministry has funded the life-saving treatment of about 500 children with heart diseases from Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Jordan.

Health minister, Yad Sarah seek more resources for geriatric nursing

“The number of elderly in Israel has grown from year to year.”

Litzman calls to put drug for rare genetic disease in basket

In the US, the cost of a single dose of the drug, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in December, is $125,000.

Health Scan: Better pediatric simulation system in Tel Aviv

Individuals with severe overweight issues have an inhibited sense of satiation; they release fewer satiety hormones than people of normal weight.

People are more interesting than bacteria

Scientific progress has led to the concept of evidence-based medicine where everything must be proved objectively.