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Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech

MDA App Praised for Fastest Emergency Response

By Jewish Press News Desk

MDA has also used this technology to create dispatch systems for other emergency organizations.

Police and Crime / Jerusalem / Health and Medicine

25 Injured in Bus Crash on Jerusalem Highway

By Jewish Press News Desk

"Firefighters were active at the scene and extracted 38 people from the bus,."

Jerusalem / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U Develops New Method to Diagnose Early-Stage Parkinson's

By Jewish Press News Desk

The new information will facilitate early diagnosis of the disease and provide "markers" for monitoring the efficacy of future drug therapies.

Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

TAU Study: 4th COVID-19 Vaccine Reduces Risk of Elderly Death by 72%

By Jewish Press News Desk

The subjects’ average age was 80, and all were residents of nursing homes participating in Israel’s “Senior Shield” program.

US / Photo of the Day / Health and Medicine / Aliyah / Geulah / Canada

Hatzalah Training Next Generation of US & Canadian Lifesavers

By Jewish Press News Desk

"We went through a vigorous course in United Hatzalah in a short amount of time and now we are ready to give back to our homeland.”

Israel / Health and Medicine

Be’er Sheva Man, 79, Resuscitated after Wife Finds Him Unconscious at Home

By Jewish Press News Desk

After about seven exhausting minutes of performing CPR alone, an intensive care ambulance team arrived and joined Ariel's efforts.

Featured / Business and Economy / Jerusalem / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U Startup’s Viroblock Effective Against Covid Variants, Influenza, Zika, West Nile, Hepatitis

By Jewish Press News Desk

ViroBlock’s new technology platform demonstrated the potential to rapidly provide solutions for treating current and emerging viral threats.

Israel / Health and Medicine

Supermarket Manager / EMT Saves Girl Who Choked on Candy

By Jewish Press News Desk

"“Thanks to this simple intervention, another person’s life was miraculously saved."

Featured / Jewish / Jerusalem / Coronavirus

President Herzog Awards Genesis Prize to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla

By Jewish Press News Desk

"He believed in the vaccine and invested every ounce of himself in realizing what seemed at the time a far-fetched fantasy."

Israel / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

Muslim Paramedic Joins Collaborative Effort to Rescue Ukrainian Jewish Refugees

By Jewish Press News Desk

Donia was born in 1935 and watched as her mother and sister were murdered by the Nazis in 1942.

NY / Health and Medicine / Chabad

ODA Primary Health Care Network Opens Branch in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

By COLlive.com

Services are available 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with on-call availability 24 hours a day.

Israel / Health and Medicine

Lifeguard, First Responders Save Pardes Hana 4-Year-Old Boy from Drowning

By Jewish Press News Desk

"I left that incident with my clothes sopping wet from jumping in the pool."

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / On Campus / Education

TAU Study Discovers Where COVID-19 Variants Come From

By Jewish Press News Desk

Immunocompromised patients tend to develop chronic coronavirus infections, leading to highly mutated variants that bear multiple antibody-resistant mutations.

Featured / Health and Medicine

Givat Shmuel Gym Members Save Man Who Suffered Cardiac Arrest Mid-Workout

By Jewish Press News Desk

“Had the trainer not begun CPR when he did and had the first responders not all worked in unison, we may not have been successful."

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine

Two Severe Anaphylactic Shock Victims Saved by EpiPens

By Jewish Press News Desk

“There's a massive shortage of these autoinjection devices around the globe and here in Israel as well."

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

TAU Researchers Offer Future 1-Shot AIDS Treatment

By Jewish Press News Desk

The scientists, for the first time ever, engineered type B white blood cells in the patient's body to secrete HIV antibodies.

Featured / Israel / Police and Crime / Health and Medicine

Hatzalah Offers Psychotrauma Support in Wake of Volunteer Policeman’s Murder

By Jewish Press News Desk

“We arrive in the first few moments when everyone's emotions are at an all-time high."

Israel / Police and Crime / Health and Medicine

Police Officer and EMTs Save Man Who Collapsed in Tel Aviv Parking Garage

By Jewish Press News Desk

As Max arrived, he saw a police officer on the ground leaning over the patient, already performing CPR.

Health and Medicine / Israeli Arabs

Teenage Arab Caught in Crossfire Rescued by Jewish and Arab EMTs

By Jewish Press News Desk

“The mission of saving lives is not unique to one religion or one people."

Health and Medicine

New Israeli Study Sheds Light on Promising Antidepressant

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A newly revealed mechanism of ketamine’s action on potassium channels in neurons may lead to improved therapies for depression, a new study by Weizmann Institute researchers shows.

Israel / Holidays & Observances / Health and Medicine

EMT Starts Jerusalem Liberation Day with Saving a Life then Singing Hallel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Just after 8:30 Sunday morning, an employee at a school on Shalom Sharabi Street in Petah Tikvah told one of his colleagues that he wasn’t feeling well. He sat down on a bench and keeled over. His colleagues, who all had taken a CPR course, called emergency services and proceeded to attach the school’s defibrillator […]

Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan U Researchers Discover Mechanism for Communication bet. Different Brain Regions

By Jewish Press News Desk

New finding may contribute to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Israel / Travel / Health and Medicine

Man Suffers Cardiac Arrest Waiting for Train, Resuscitated by Fellow Passenger Hatzalah EMT

By Jewish Press News Desk

“This was a stressful incident because I was alone, without equipment, for about 13 minutes."

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

TAU Researchers Find Common Gene Mutation Mechanism in Autism, Schizophrenia

By Jewish Press News Desk

An experimental drug developed at a TAU lab may be suitable for treating a range of rare syndromes that impair brain functions.

Israel / Health and Medicine

EMT Rescues Cowshed Worker Who Collapsed over his Morning Coffee

By Jewish Press News Desk

Haim works closely with the entire agriculture staff, and the person in need is his friend.

Headline / Holidays & Observances / Religious & Secular in Israel / Health and Medicine

47 Treated So Far on Mt. Meron by United Hatzalah Volunteers

By Jewish Press News Desk

"Volunteers have come from all over the country and are active around the clock to provide emergency medical care in Meron."

Israel / Health and Medicine

Patient’s Death Triggers Tough Memories for Hatzalah EMT

By Jewish Press News Desk

"Seeing him sitting there alone in his car brought back waves of pain for me from my brother’s death."

Israel / Health and Medicine

‘Real Life Angels Exist’ – A Daughter Recounts her Father’s Dramatic Cardiac Arrest

By Jewish Press News Desk

I learned that evening that the statistics are stacked against people and that only 3-4 percent of the people who receive CPR survive.

Israel / Health and Medicine

Woman, 86, Collapses before Daughter, Granddaughter, Revived by EMTs

By Jewish Press News Desk

"In cases like this, the early first response makes the difference between life and death."

Israel / Travel / News Briefs / Coronavirus

Israel to End COVID-19 Tests at Ben-Gurion Airport

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The number of coronavirus cases in Israel continues to drop with 497 patients hospitalized.

Israel / Health and Medicine

Haifa Woman, 105, Resuscitated after Choking at Home

By Jewish Press News Desk

"Saving the life of a 105-year-old woman is not something a person gets to do every day."

Health and Medicine

Magen David Adom Builds World’s First Subterranean Blood Bank

By Josh Hasten

Israel’s emergency blood reserves to be held in an underground vault to protect it from potential missile, chemical and biological attacks

US / Diaspora / Health and Medicine / Aliyah / Geulah

Nefesh B’Nefesh Holds ‘MedEx’ Event for Medical Professionals Considering Aliyah

By Jewish Press News Desk

The event was geared to physicians, nurses, dentists, podiatrists, psychologists, optometrists, pharmacists, therapists, audiologists, nutritionists, and dental hygienists.

Featured / Health and Medicine / Ukraine / Aliyah / Geulah

Hatzalah Covert Operations Deliver Medicine, Food, Aliyah Papers to Ukrainian Jews

By Jewish Press News Desk

"These undercover deliveries of food and medical supplies to people inside Ukraine are of vital importance and save lives."

Government / Coronavirus

Hours After Meeting Blinken, Bennett Tests Positive for COVID-19

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Bennett's planned trip to India will have to be cancelled or delayed.

Israel / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

Three Weeks at the Ukrainian Border – There and Back Again

By Jewish Press News Desk

This is war with all its ugly facets, and these people need our help.  

Israel / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

Israeli Doctors Implant World’s Thinnest Artificial Cornea

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The first patient treated with this innovative procedure suffered from rejection of a previous human corneal implant,

Government / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

Bennett, Lapid, Send Off Israeli Delegation to Establish Field Hospital in Ukraine

By Jewish Press News Desk

In lieu of a comment on the shameful, anti-Israel speech of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the Knesset, Bennett stressed what Israel has been best at.

Health and Medicine / Ukraine / Poland

Magen David Adom Sends 4 Armored Ambulances to Ukraine

By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk

MDA plans to establish a field clinic in Poland, once approved by the Polish government.

Israel / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

First Responder Shares Challenges of Emotional Pain and Trauma on Ukraine’s Border

By Jewish Press News Desk

I can’t comprehend what these people have gone through, the enormous hardships of leaving their home after watching it being destroyed.

Israel / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

Ukrainian Refugees to Receive Free Medical Services in Israel

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

Knesset member Idit Silman (Yamina), who chairs the Knesset’s Health Committee, called on the country’s health and medical organizations to step up and provide care in Israel as “humanitarian aid.”

Israel / Coronavirus

New Deltacron Variant Discovered in Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The R coefficient, which indicates the spread of the virus, has climbed in recent days after consistently dropping, and was registered at 0.86,

Featured / Israel / Jewish / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

Two Fast-Thinking Jewish Women Save Ukrainian Refugee at the Border

By Jewish Press News Desk

And just like that Danny was able to join his wife and young daughter in Moldova.

Israel / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

Saving Lives in Ukraine and Then Again in Ashdod

By Jewish Press News Desk

When the family members saw the United Hatzalah volunteers they burst out in joy at the sight of the orange uniforms.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

My 64-Hour Mission to Save 2 Abandoned Newborn Babies from War-Torn Kiev

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two baby girls born to surrogate mothers and abandoned in Kiev had to be rescued from the shelled city and delivered to their Israeli parents.

Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

BGU Research: Green Mediterranean Diet Mediates Weight Loss, Reduces Cardiac Risk

By Jewish Press News Desk

The health-promoting effects, previously attributed to the green MED diet, are in fact mediated by the changes in the gut microbiome.

Featured / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

Helping Refugees with Medical Care and Phsycotrauma Stabilization at the Ukrainian Border

By Jewish Press News Desk

After a few minutes, the woman began to calm down and her excitement at the prospect of immigrating to Israel took over.

Featured / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

My Life in Moldova from Dentistry School to Treating Ukrainian Refugees

By Jewish Press News Desk

I never imagined I would be putting my school-days' connections to use in this way, but we do whatever is in our power to help.

Featured / Government / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

Magen David Adom Opens Call Center for Ukrainian Refugees in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

The call center will provide assistance in a variety of areas including medical needs, bureaucracy, and coordination with professionals.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

The Responsibility Of Rescuing Ukrainian Refugees with Dignity and Humanity

By Jewish Press News Desk

Many times we watch as the refugees gain a sense of calm the moment they cross over the border, once they are finally out of danger.

Featured / Israel / Jewish / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

3 Jewish Groups Rescue Family from Ukraine, Treat their Injuries, Help them Escape

By Jewish Press News Desk

“This was a joint operation and would not have succeeded without the effort of all three organizations."

Featured / Jewish / US / Health and Medicine / On Campus / Education

Jewish Eighth Graders’ Basketball Hoop for Disabled Wins $1,000 Grand Prize

By Jewish Press News Desk

ADI cares for and empowers hundreds of Israel’s most vulnerable citizens – children, adolescents, and adults with severe disabilities.

Jewish / Video of the Day / Health and Medicine / Ukraine

United Hatzalah Teaching First Aid to Ukrainian Refugees in Moldova

By Jewish Press News Desk

"Our goal is to empower the refugees and give them back a sense of control over their situation."

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Ukraine / Russia

Building Bridges of Humanity at Ukraine and Moldova Border Crossing

By Jewish Press News Desk

In light of the information we received from the Israeli Foreign Ministry we decided to head out to Palanca this morning to rendezvous with a convoy of yeshiva students from Dnipro.

Featured / Government / Business and Economy / Coronavirus

Finance Minister Liberman (Finally) Authorizes Aid Package for Businesses Hurt by COVID

By Israel Hayom

Businesses that prove annual revenue losses of at least 35% in January-February 2022 compared to the same months in 2019 will be eligible to receive up to $185,000.

Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar Ilan U Researchers Develop Recovery Process to Transform Failed Networks

By Jewish Press News Desk

Due to damaged connections, lost nodes, or links, systems may transition from a thriving, active state into a collapsed, inactive state.

Health and Medicine / Ukraine

United Hatzalah’s Humanitarian Mission To the Ukraine Border Departs Tonight From Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

The humanitarian aid mission will make its way to the Moldova/Ukraine border over the course of the next few hours.

News Briefs / Health and Medicine

Siblings of Children with Disabilities May have Greater Empathy, New Study Finds

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Researchers examined data from the Longitudinal Israeli Study of Twins, which included 1,657 families of twins born in 2004 and 2005.

Israel / Health and Medicine

Jerusalem Infant Saved after Choking on Stickers

By Jewish Press News Desk

Back in 2019, Nurse Practitioner Cami Kesler offered tips to parents whose baby was choking.

Israel / Health and Medicine

EMT Arrives in Less than 1 Minute, Saves Boy, 7, Struck by Car

By Jewish Press News Desk

Sharon inserted an airway into the boy's mouth and throat and connected the artificial respiration device to ventilate.

Israel / Global / Health and Medicine

Delegation of Senior Moldovan Health Ministry Officials in Israel to Learn from MDA Emergency Services

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The delegation is in Israel as part of a joint project with the World Health Organization (WHO) to upgrade the emergency medical system and emergency preparedness system in Moldova.

Politics / Police and Crime / Government / Coronavirus

Israel Freedom Convoy Persists Amid Media Blackout and Police Crackdown

By Orit Arfa

Israeli Minister Eli Avidar calls the police’s breakup of the protest at the Knesset “violent and brutal.”

Coronavirus

Study Examines COVID Lockdowns' Harm to Children’s Immune Systems

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

In the months after Israel lifted the majority of social restrictions, there was a sharp incline in respiratory and gastrointestinal infections among the 0-3 age group, a peer-reviewed study by Ben-Gurion University shows.

Israel / The Environment / Health and Medicine / On Campus / Education

TAU Study: Microplastics Cause Severe Damage to the Digestive System

By Jewish Press News Desk

Microplastics increase the toxicity of organic pollutants in the environment by a factor of 10.

Government / Coronavirus

As Many as 20,000 Vehicles Participate in Israeli COVID ‘Freedom Convoy’

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The crowdfunded initiative was inspired by the Canadian Freedom Convoy and is operating under the slogan “Take back the wheel.” The convoy culminated with major protests outside Israel's Knesset and Supreme Court in Jerusalem.

Bedouin / Health and Medicine

EMT Rescues Five from Burning Building in Bedouin Town

By Jewish Press News Desk

"When I saw children hiding under the bed, I knew that I had to get them out as quickly as possible.”

Politics / Government / Photo of the Day / Coronavirus

Freedom Convoy: Israel

By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk

The crowdfunded initiative was inspired by the Canadian Freedom Convoy and is operating under the slogan “Take back the wheel.”

Featured / Israel / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Number of Women Reporting Side-Effects after Pfizer Vaccination Almost Double that of Men

By Jewish Press News Desk

The highest frequencies of side-effects reported among all the participants were those following the second vaccination.

Israel / Coronavirus

COVID is No Longer Just a Disease of the Unvaccinated in Israel. Why?

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

Doctors from medical centers throughout the country explain how a wave of vaccinated people has filled its hospitals.

Featured / Coronavirus / Sheba Medical Center

Israeli-York U Study Examines How COVID-19 Masks Impact Children’s Social Interactions

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Children are having difficulty recognizing faces that are partially covered by masks, and this could potentially impact social interactions with peers and educators, as well as the ability to form important relationships.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

First: TAU Spinal Cord Implants May Help Paralyzed People Walk Again

By Jewish Press News Desk

The technology behind the breakthrough uses patient tissue samples, transforming it into a functioning spinal cord implant via a process that mimics the development of the spinal cord in human embryos.

Israel / Health and Medicine

United Hatzalah Paramedic Saves Maccabi Haifa Fan Who Suffered Cardiac Arrest Mid-Game

By Jewish Press News Desk

Almost three weeks ago, on a Monday evening at the soccer game between Hapoel Be’er Sheva and Maccabi Haifa in the Yaakov Turner Toto Stadium in Be'er Sheva, Yossi Cohen, 42, suffered a cardiac arrest. Fortunately, United Hatzalah volunteer paramedic Gal Mazor was on hand as part of the medical team UH sends to all […]

Israel / Travel / Coronavirus

Israeli Tourism Minister Wants to Allow Unvaccinated Kids into Israel by Passover

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The decision would need to be made soon for families that want to plan their Pesach vacations.

Israel / Coronavirus

Tveria Hospital Launches 3rd Corona Ward Citing Increased Demand

By Jewish Press News Desk

Record number of corona patients since the pandemic's outbreak.

Featured / Israel / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Stress, Smoking Rates Up among All Hospital Workers, Hebrew U. Study Finds

By Jewish Press News Desk

Working on Covid-19 frontline—even as hospital janitor or admin—negatively impacts mental health.

Israel / Health and Medicine

EMT Summoned to Help a Friend’s Father-in-Law in Tveria Saves his Life

By Jewish Press News Desk

When Yehoyada arrived he found the older gentleman lying in bed, conscious and awake, surrounded by worried family members.

Headline / Obituaries / Coronavirus

Esther Pollard Passes Away

By Jewish Press News Desk

Esther Pollard had been battling cancer and recently caught the Coronavirus.

News Briefs / Coronavirus

Esther Pollard Rushed to Hospital with COVID

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Her husband, Jonathan, has asked that the public pray for her speedy recovery: Esther Yocheved Bat Reisel Bracha.

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