Alternative health

From ice baths to yoga classes: Everything to expect at Israel's largest wellness festival

Three movement areas, 50 health booths, and a free alternative therapy zone: Wellfest returns for its fifth year at Kfar Maccabiah. The event will take place on May 29-30.

 Wellfest
 ce water bath: unclear benefits

Do ice baths really improve health? New medical review reveals surprising findings

 ce water bath: unclear benefits

Do ice baths improve health? New medical review reveals surprising findings

Red 'traffic light' nutrition labels are seen on cream cheese products on Israeli supermarket shelves.

Red labels on salty, sweet and fatty food not required during emergency


Science has revealed- Why Diet Soda can have an adverse effect on Health

The Jerusalem Post

Hunger-striker Allan health improving, being fed, hospital says

Barzilai says hunger striker now being fed by hospital and his health improving, as IDF steps up readiness amid fears of escalation.

Muhammad Allan, with his lawyer, recovering in hospital

The debate over marijuana: Politics and polemics

The Jerusalem Post

Environment until age one, not only genes, play key role in babies’ eventual adult height

The Journal of Pediatrics publishes study saying that while genetics do have a significant effect on a person’s height, so, too, do environmental elements.

Baby boy in sleeping on bed

Doctors at Afula-area hospital develop test to predict fatal condition in pregnant women

The condition has often been identified in women too late, when they already suffer from hypertension, kidney complications or protein in urine.

A pregnant woman

Allegedly counterfeit drugs seized in Malha Mall health food store

The products contain chemicals that comprise prescription-only Viagra and Cialis pills to treat impotence.

The seized counterfeit drugs

Shas calls for emergency Knesset parley on hospital overcrowding

Meretz protesters say government funding must go to "the sick and not the settlements"; hospital occupancy rate actually lower than in previous winters.

An amputee patient with MRSA (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is pictured during surgery to clean his wound, in the operating theatre of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (UKB) hospital in Berlin February 29, 2008

Wading through widowhood

Let’s talk about the BRCA gene.

Breast cancer ribbon

Arava Power investing profits from new solar fields in social causes

4 social organizations already benefiting from Ketura Sun profits: Innovation: Africa, Bustan, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and Red Mountain Therapeutic Riding Center.

Maslul Sun field in Moshav Maslul in the Arava.

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‘Though dry eye is very common, some people don’t even realize they have it or regard it as normal, so they don’t consult with doctors’

Ophthalmologist (illustrative photo)