Health & Science

“Getting my son back is a gift,” said Shiri Avichezer, whose son Noam had the virus. “Thank God, he surfaced from all of this.”

The algae has been shown to reduce inflammation.

J&J's vaccine was 66% effective in preventing COVID-19 against multiple variants in a global trial involving nearly 44,000 people, the company said.

The findings are not without precedent, with the study noting that other vaccines, like those for the flu, Ebola and malaria, also provide greater protection after longer intervals between doses.

The HemoScreen device is FDA cleared to perform the Complete Blood Count (CBC), which can be used at the point of testing.

The study showed there were around 6,000 additional deaths in Wuhan over the January-March 2020 period, including 4,573 caused by pneumonia — most of which were COVID-related.

Transmission from teachers resulted in about half of 31 school-related cases, according to the investigation.

Preclinical in-vitrio research done by MediWound as well as existing research have found that bromelain has anti-cancer properties.

Purim begins Thursday at sundown. The curfew will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

More children can enjoy pre-Purim festivities in their classrooms.

In December, the FDA granted emergency use authorization to the vaccine and current label to be stored at temperatures between -80ºC and -60ºC (-112ºF to -76ºF).

External factors have a huge impact on the vaccination process.

Antibiotics have for the past century been doctors' main weapon in the battle against bacterial diseases, but many diseases are becoming resistant.

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion visited Kfar Aqb, located near the Qalandiya Crossing, to hear the needs of the residents of the neighborhood & take a closer look at the many problems they face.

Reversible genetic inversion helps the gut adapt to incessant change, and the key to that is sugar.

Health and Transportation ministries reduce number of people allowed into Israel each day to 200, only days after they voted to increase it to 2,000.

Entirely new models will need to be developed to understand this new, unheard of phenomenon.

Liel Dubinsky told The Jerusalem Post, “Go get vaccinated. This is not a game.”

How does music affect our emotions? • How does it change our ability to learn?

“We have learned many things from the current COVID-19 pandemic,” Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said during a kick-off event held late last week.

Ugandan variant identified in Israel, 90% of new cases are UK variant • Knesset Law Committee extends mandatory quarantine in hotels by 24h • Israir to start flights to Eilat

What is a vaccination certificate? * Where do I get a green passport? * And what if I recovered from COVID-19?

According to a senior health fund official, the Pfizer deal was for 10 million vaccines - enough to inoculate 5 million people.

Israel has allowed also people who are not entitled to healthcare to get inoculated against the virus, including people who have Israeli citizenship but are not residents.

Passport holders will be able to go out to restaurants with friends again, go to the gym, attend rock concerts and "sing along with every word," as well as go to cinemas and theaters.

Participants were interviewed up to four times over the course of the study.

The findings are significant because they included the discovery of phenomena not part of Hawking's original analysis.

The use of automated, machine-based solutions in healthcare has become a more prominent issue in the past year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On Sunday, 500,000 more children return to school • Malls, gyms open up as infection declines

The government approved the coronavirus cabinet's recommendations on Friday to open up more of Israel on Sunday, February 21.

Some 4,636 people died of COVID-19 in China out of a population of 1,398,000 (0.00033%). In Israel, 5,509 people had died as of Friday out of a population of 9,053,000 (0.06%).

While media has popularized the notion of widespread looting and chaos in the wake of major disasters, the communities impacted by disasters actually see a decrease in crime.

The image was taken at the very end of the so-called "seven-minutes-of-terror" descent sequence.

Some 2.4% of Traffix users were infected with the coronavirus while 10% of non-users were infected.

CORONA AFFAIRS: Medical experts say the vaccines work, but they are only a partial answer.

Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but only in poultry.

Gamida Cell is a cell therapy company working to develop and commercialize cures for blood cancers and blood diseases.

The nanosatellite, the first ever to be wholly designed, developed, assembled, and tested at an Israeli university, will measure cosmic radiation around the earth.

It is extremely rare for Israeli officials to go to Ramallah for a meeting.

All black-footed ferrets living today are descended from only seven individuals, leading to a very limited genetic diversity.

If approved, the less onerous storage requirements would provide a big logistical relief because the vaccine for now has to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius for longer periods.

The agreement builds on the existing collaboration between MyBiotics and Ferring in developing live microbiota-based therapeutics for women’s health

No one could have envisioned the year of the pandemic.

“This is the first study assessing effectiveness of a single vaccine dose in real life conditions."

Pregnant women are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, and many public health officials have recommended some women in high-risk professions take coronavirus vaccines.

"Touchdown confirmed," Swati Mohan, the lead guidance and operations specialist announced from the control room. "Perseverance safely on the surface of Mars."

The study found that patients treated at least two weeks after injury faced less complications than those treated within 24 hours after injury.

"It may be more contagious than conventional strains, and if it continues to spread domestically, it could lead to a rapid rise in cases."

The company is proposing to do a Phase I clinical trial of a booster shot of that prototype vaccine that it would test against a booster for the current vaccine.

While the country boasts the most successful vaccination campaign in the world so far, significant gaps exist between different municipalities.

The numbers represent the largest drop in life expectancy for Americans since World War II, when life expectancy fell 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943.

Many compounds that can possibly be found in the atmospheres in other planets can often only be made through industry.

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It is not clear if the shot will be effective against the mutation, the companies said on Wednesday.

The researchers noted that while ozone is most known for being in the atmosphere and blocking harmful UV rays, it is also a strong oxidant and disinfectant employed in water and wastewater treatment.

Knowledge Center: Nearly four out of five new cases under 40 years old

Of the dead, some 1,459 people died from COVID-19 – also the highest in any one month since the start of the pandemic.

The study is the first collaboration between Galilee Medical Center and the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University and the UAE's Gulf Medical University.

Auto-Cool’s advanced ADS3000 system disinfects the coronavirus in air conditioning ducts from the interior of the vehicle.

Israel is part of the European report, so is not included in these numbers.

Center-left respondents were found to be more likely to have received both vaccine doses.

The EXO-CD24 nasal spray saw a near 100% success rate in Phase I clinical trials, which will also be expanded to Greece's largest hospital.

To date, in only between 1% and 3% of cases has a pregnant mom directly passed on the virus to her baby.

“I am negotiating with them to build two plants in Israel that will turn Israel into an international center in the fight against coronavirus."

Fauci "has been widely praised for his courage in speaking truth to power in a highly charged political environment."

Until now, scientists had no choice but to allow proteins to fold in whichever way it falls, with the process taking hours to days with expected loss in material along the way.

ILTV spoke with the co-founder and CEO of Spacepharma Yossi Yamin to discuss the new technology, and its implications for the scientific community.

A WHO statement said it had approved the vaccine as produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio (Republic of Korea) and the Serum Institute of India.

Clozapine had been known to help those who are dealing with schizophrenia. However, up until now, extensive blood checks were needed to measure its effectiveness. Now a simple pin prick is enough.

The treatment lasts around three hours, including observation.

The exact origins of each of the viral mutation lineages are yet to be discovered. Some of the strains are prominent across the Midwest, others across the coasts.

“Stroke is a debilitating condition with limited recovery options, creating a huge unmet need."

“The challenges of the pandemic have accelerated the need for remote patient care during pregnancy.”

Originally, the Moderna vaccine was intended to be used to inoculate Israel’s homebound community, but now the effort proves to be too complicated.

Data showed 94% fewer symptomatic coronavirus cases and 92% fewer cases of serious illness among those vaccinated.

In late January, an Israeli who was infected with the novel coronavirus in August was found to be reinfected with the South African variant.

"We will only stop the pandemic as one world:...a nation by nation approach will ultimately fail because it will leave hot spots for new variants to spread."

Maccabi: Data proves unequivocally that the vaccine is very effective.

The Health Ministry has targeted February 23 as the start of the next phase of its plan.

The number of serious patients is also on the decline, especially among people 60 and older.

The new mid-stage trial will determine whether the vaccine is effective on people between the ages of 6 and 17, according to an emailed statement from the university.

Livny, who lives in Jerusalem, was among the first Israelis to take the shot, and became fully vaccinated in January.

Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) is one of the most common human pathogens in existence, present in approximately 40–90% of the population worldwide.

The first place winner of this contest was the idea of a portable defibrillator, called Defi.

Humanity is seeking new ways to coat surfaces to eliminate bacteria and viruses, the antimicrobial tech industry grows as never before.

"As is well known, the coronavirus has also been transmitted from animals to humans, so the risk to public health is real."

The new method, which can also help diagnose epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and stroke, is based on an analysis of EEG patterns using algorithms.

Nearly 3.7 million Israelis have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

“It is very bad to force people to vaccinate,” said Prof. Yuval Feldman of Bar-Ilan University, adding that forcing people to do things doesn't usually work.

Deputy A-G says legislation needed to require teachers to take vaccines.

Immunai is on a mission to reprogram the immune system to advance personalized medicine to better detect, diagnose and treat diseases, company co-founder Noam Solomon told The Jerusalem Post.

That new mutation has been designated a "Variant of Concern."

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