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Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem marked the official opening of its new state-of-the art Helmsley Cancer Center this week. The cancer center...
At least 215 cases of Pertussis (Whooping Cough) have been reported to the Health Ministry since January, accounting for a 12-fold increase over the...
Proton therapy for cancer treatment has arrived in Israel and the Middle East with a clinical trial underway that sees Hadassah Medical Center...
The worldwide economic downturn and Israel’s internal political turmoil have investors sitting on the fence about funding local tech companies....
The Knesset Health Committee on Sunday approved a reform aimed at eliminating the duplication of health insurance coverage, reducing costs for...
Photographer Roman Vishniac is widely known and admired for his iconic images of pre-World War II life in Eastern Europe, a world that vanished due to...
Israeli research combining molecular and computational neuroscience has uncovered a molecular basis for why women living with Alzheimer’s disease...
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have successfully used RNA nanodrugs to target and silence a gene that encodes for a protein that causes ovarian...
Scientists at Cambridge University in England have discovered that the rare genetic mutations that cause Gaucher disease protect against tuberculosis...
If you see an Israeli wearing a purple silicone bracelet, don’t assume it is merely a fashion statement. The colorful band stamped with “DNR” (...
The famous American editorial cartoonist Herblock once wrote, “If the prime role of a free press is to serve as critic of government, cartooning is...
Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan honored Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
Israel has a serious opioid problem, according to a recent report published by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel. The report warns...
Internationally renowned Weizmann Institute of Science professor of neuroimmunology Michal Schwartz will receive the Israel Prize for life sciences on...
Two physicians are among the 12 Israelis chosen to light torches on April 25 at the national ceremony on Mt. Herzl kicking off celebrations of...
Clalit Health Services, Israel’s largest HMO, has revoked its sponsorship of a conference hosted by Dorot Institute – Center for Fertility,...
BEIJING — China’s foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts that his country is ready to help facilitate peace talks, state...
Providing hope for women carrying the BRCA1 genetic mutation, a clinical trial at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem is investigating whether a...
NEW YORK — US Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican whose lies about his background and wealth helped propel him into office, announced Monday...
In European cities, it is not uncommon to see groups kneeling on sidewalks cleaning Stolpersteine. Using brass cleaner, rags, sponges, and water, they...
Anna Winger makes no apologies for the creative liberties she takes with her new Netflix miniseries “Transatlantic” about Varian Fry and the...
In the year since Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) 2022, the Tracing Services at Magen David Adom received 150 requests for help in locating...
Polish singer-songwriter Maria Ka is focused on the present and future as she forges a new idiosyncratic global Jewish music scene — in...
The organs of terror victim Lucy Dee were transplanted Tuesday hours before her funeral, saving the lives of five people, the National Transplant...
As a teacher, Lisa Biton was trained how to respond when incoming rocket sirens blared. Fortunately, the Kiryat Gat resident knew how to act when she...
On the morning of March 28, an autonomous drone carrying 3.8 kilograms (8.4 lbs) of blood took off at 9:42 in the morning from Rambam Medical Center...
A new guide for celebrating Passover for families caring for a loved one with dementia has been released by the Tzohar and Emda organizations. It...
A new peer-reviewed study from Bar-Ilan University has shown that it is possible to study a pregnant woman’s gut microbes to predict as early as the...
Most people with schizophrenia are diagnosed in their late teens or early twenties. One in 222 adults around the world suffer from the mental illness....
Odds are that William Shakespeare never attended a Passover Seder, but that did not stop author Martin Bodek from imagining what a Haggadah written by...
Researchers have known for some time about the DNA mutations that lead healthy pancreatic cells to turn cancerous. What was not understood is how...
There are a variety of treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, but none have previously allowed patients to use non-invasive technology to...
The Health Ministry released on Wednesday its report on the circumstances that led to a couple receiving the wrong IVF embryo at the Assuta Medical...
National Public Radio listeners may not know what Ari Shapiro looks like, but they will recognize his voice. Since 2015 he has been one of the hosts...
Tea is the second-most popular beverage in the world, but if you drink the green variety, you may want to pause before downing your next cup. A new...
The Israel Pediatric Association (IPA) issued an urgent call on Sunday for the government and medical community to address an ongoing polio outbreak...
Ronit Harpaz is one of two dozen Israeli health tech leaders who take turns going to the Knesset every day to voice their opposition to the...
Cioma Schönhaus survived the Holocaust by hiding in plain sight in Berlin. The young Jewish man’s parents and grandmother were deported to death...
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research have developed the world’s first mRNA vaccine effective...
It took Avi Schiffmann only 48 hours after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and neighboring Syria on February 6, 2023, to launch TakeShelter.org, a...
It’s a nightmare scenario: A Parisian couple sells storage space in its basement to a genial-seeming former history teacher, only to discover that...
All families have their secrets, but from reading Letty Cottin Pogrebin‘s new memoir, “Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy,” it would seem...
On July 13, 1945, Marine Corps Sgt. Stuart Schulberg wrote to his wife Barbara that he was heading from Washington to Germany for a special mission...
In summer 2015, Stella Levi made what would likely be her last trip back to Rhodes, where she grew up in the Juderia, the Jewish quarter that was home...
In June 1941, the Nazis arrived in the small Belarussian village of Karmanovka searching for the two Jewish families who lived there. The Nazis...
1n 1986, Jewish Hollywood legend Paul Newman decided it was time to set the record straight about who he really was. His goal was to counter the...
You don’t need to be a horror fan to like “Blood Relatives,” a new vampire film by first-time writer and director Noah Segan. There are fangs,...