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AI models need better training to handle the complexity of medical coding.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some of the captives held in Gaza are in dire need of medical treatment.
Researchers successfully classified two crucial components of the immune response that occur during severe infectious diseases.
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.
Help was just 30 second away.
There are other drugs available on the market which provide similar help.
"After saving someone’s life the sensation of euphoria I got wouldn’t let me sleep."
"Glioblastoma is the deadliest type of cancer in the central nervous system, accounting for most malignant brain tumors."
A new blood test has the potential to diagnose cancers, liver diseases, immune disorders, without need for invasive and painful biopsies.
“Providing oxygen is one of the most essential roles of a medical first responder,” said President and Founder of United Hatzalah Eli Beer.
Invasive fungal infections of the internal organs or bloodstream can have a high level of mortality (up to 50%), are often difficult to treat, and cause at least 1.6 million deaths per year.
These tests will be free of charge for the first month of school.
"Just because triage is correct under some circumstances does not mean that it is correct under all circumstances."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ten farms, five factories with Health Ministry approval • Companies already closing deals with buyers in Europe and Canada.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s embassy in Japan has been working to ensure that the Israelis receive needed medications and kosher food.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Patients with damaged or torn menisci can have the transplant surgery as a replacement for previous treatments, such as pain management and physical therapy.
A new treatment developed at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv prevents scarring during surgeries for removing tumors in breast cancer patients.
''It's important for your mental health if you read a little about cleft lip, so that you don't regret your decision in the future,'' I implored her.
By JNi.Media
Through their new partnership, Cannabics and Seedo will develop the first controlled device for growing medical cannabis at home.
By JNi.Media
The Health Ministry's Director General said there are 242 other patients suspected of contracting Leptospirosis.
By JNi.Media
"Moving slowly, we managed to use the endoscope to grab the nail, transfer it to the stomach and then pull it out through the esophagus," Dr. On related.
By JNi.Media
Intact Denmark – Association Against Circumcision of Children, began its petition drive on January 1, calling for a ban on circumcising males under the age of consent, 18.
By JNi.Media
In the settlement of Itamar Health Ministry officials have encountered resistance even when the vaccine was intended to prevent the infection of neighbors.
The IDF is looking for less lethal ways to protect Israel from the zombie-style attempt to overrun the Gaza border.
Attitudes about end-of-life treatment.
"After years of being ashamed and staying at home, unable to work and unwilling to show my hand to people, I have finally been given some hope of my life returning to the way it used to be."
The new Radiotherapy department was opened at Ziv Hospital.
If Dr. Lichtenstein’s research pans out, patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s might also benefit.
Who says you can't fix a broken heart?
By Israel 21C
Smartphone system under development at Ben-Gurion University can evaluate apnea and other sleep disorders at home, without contact sensors.
By Israel 21C
Parasight diagnostic platform can detect malaria and ID the species in less than 4 minutes, using machine learning and computer vision.
The discovery ultimately established the major defense mechanism in innate immunity, for which he won his Nobel Prize.
By JNi.Media
A top Israeli medical scientist receives an award for work that may help women with placenta problems give birth to healthy children.
The 2 religious boys heard the blind Arab man say he couldn't pay for his medicine. Watch what happens next...
The student team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has won the Best Health and Medicine Project category in the prestigious 12th annual iGEM 2015 Giant Jamboree competition with their cutting-edge biological cancer therapy called “Boomerang.” IGEM is considered one of the most important ventures in the global sphere of science. Nearly 4,600 students competed […]
Ben Gurion U. researchers selected writings by six shooters involved in a number of high-profile scenarios worldwide, including the Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007
Acting Health Minister Yaakov Litzman says it will be supervised like any other drug that is considered a narcotic.
A Smartphone app may be able to help prevent Parkinson's disease patients from falling.
Bnei Brak Hassidic woman and child are fine after C-section birth of in-vitro-fertilization baby.
By Rachel Levy
ISIS fighters in Syria may ultimately be felled by a skin disease likely to be wracking thousands of its ranks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Stem cell treatment developed by Israeli company BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics has been designated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a "fast-track" treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Palestinian patients fear returning to Gaza, say they are embarrassed by Hamas actions.
A new Israeli treatment for Gaucher disease, approved by the FDA, has received a green light in Canada as well.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Israeli-based Teva Pharmaceuticals full approval for Synribo, a drug that is injected for adults with a with chronic phase or accelerated phase of myeloid leukemia. Chronic myeloid leukemia, also known as chronic myelogenous leukemia, is one of four main types of leukemia and is a cancer […]
No danger of the Jews becoming a minority in the combined area of Judea, Samaria and the pre-1967 Israel.
The government will actively promote abortions by funding them for women between ages 20 and 33 if a proposal by a Health Ministry committee is accepted. Israel’s”basket” of drugs and medical treatment gives hefty discounts for citizens, and the government adds “goodies” to the basket each year. The committee that came up with this coming […]
"Every doctor knows that overuse of the TMJ will cause headaches."
By JTA
An Irish company will purchase Given Imaging Ltd., an Israeli firm that developed a swallowable camera to diagnose problems in the digestive tract. Covidien Plc agreed to acquire Given Imaging from shareholders of IDB Holding Corp. Ltd. for about $860 million, it was reported Sunday. Given Imaging is the inventor of the PillCam, a swallowed […]
By JTA
Israeli Prof. Havazelet Bianco-Peled of Haifa's Technion University has invented a new super glue that mechanically seals areas of potential leakage after surgery, without the need for sutures. Bianco-Peled set up the Sealantis start-up at Technion in 2007, and the company now is expecting FDA approval for the “Seal-V” glue, developed from the cell walls […]
Are you a man with no facial hair to shave? Feel like a man but look like a girl? It happens to the best of us, even a combat soldier, who now is a real man thanks to a Tel Aviv University doctor.
If the Boycott Israel movement were intellectually honest, it would condemn the Nobel Prize judges for awarding Israelis. Let’s see how many pro-boycott academics will snub Israel’s universities.
Two more Jews, both from the United States, and a German non-Jew won the Nobel Prize in medicine in Monday, while two Israel contenders lost out. The newest Jewish Nobel Prize winners are James Rothman of Yale University and Randy Schekman of the University of California. The Israeli hopefuls were Hebrew University professors Howard Cedar […]
By JTA
A U.S. Jewish doctor in Ethiopia came across a boy whose life is threatened after an attack by a wild hyena. Muslims, Bedouin and Jews now are pitching in to save his life.
Video games do not necessarily numb brains. They actually can help the brain recover from damage caused by a stroke, according to a Tel Aviv University researcher. Bring on Nintendo.
Maimonides, the Jewish sage and medical doctor, wrote extensively on nutrition and wellness. His writings are now being incorporated into contemporary medical studies on healthy living habits.
By JTA
The kidney of a 3-year-old Israeli boy was successfully transplanted to a 10-year-old Palestinian Authority boy. The parents of Noam Naor decided to donate his kidneys after their son was declared brain dead nearly two weeks ago after falling from a window in his parents’ apartment. One kidney went to an Israeli child, and the […]
Marijuana is known to have therapeutic qualities. A Tel Aviv Univ. professor now says a very low dosage of grass also can prevent brain damage. A new study may reach the same conclusion for the heart.
He could meet a three-year-old Arab toddler with no arms and no legs, named Mohammed al-Farra.
Israel is going all out it impress Obama. Israel will show off for the president a robot snake, mini desktop and six other hi-tech products in a “Better World” exhibit at the Israel Museum.
An Israeli-made pill may be on its way to make the world slimmer. The “slim pill” to reduce obesity could go on the market as a medicine, with the help of a major pharmaceutical company.
By making underprivileged children laugh and smile, Daniele Knapp is truly doing a mitzvah - a mitzvah in memory of her son Claude.
Getting old is not so bad after all. An Israeli study says the reward for keeping a low cholesterol diet until age 80 or so is to let it all out and munch away at French fries and high-fat ice cream.
Israeli scientific breakthroughs are restoring freedom and ease to the lives of millions of patients throughout the world. The latest: a smartphone to measure your vital signs and help manage chronic diseases, a discovery which may restore speech to the paralyzed and disabled, and a possible cure for severe depression for those with no options left.
A new Health Ministry reports shows that a whopping 25 percent of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)treatments resulted in pregnancies, with 20% of attempts resulting in live births. The number represents the doubling of success in the last decade, partly thanks to Israeli law supporting free IVF for two live babies.
I watch in wonder as four teenagers grab chairs around a table at a local café. They seem to be friends, or at least fond acquaintances, all joining together for a ten-day Birthright tour of Israel. I watch these boys from a balcony above, and I observe that immediately upon sitting down, three of the four boys at the table proceed to reach for their laptops. The fourth boy didn’t seem to have one with him and attached himself to his friend’s laptop. They immediately logged into their Facebook accounts and spent the remainder of their meal connecting to friends in their respective countries.
By Tzvi Fishman
"Dear God," I said. "I don’t know why you have come into my life and done this great miracle for me. But I am certainly grateful, and I would like to make You happy some way in return. Tell me what You want me to do, and I will do it."
The following is one unique halacha that is associated with arayos (forbidden relationships): Concerning most aveiros, if one is put in a predicament where he must choose between saving his life and fulfilling a mitzvah he must choose to live and transgress the mitzvah. The Gemara says that arayos are one of the three mitzvos that are yehareg v’al ya’avor (one must allow himself to be killed so as not to transgress the mitzvah), along with murder and avodah zarah.
Aryeh Avner, Chairman of the Ometz (Citizens for Proper Administration and Social and Judicial Justice) movement has complained to Israel's Defense Minister Ehud barak that "According to information reaching the Ometz movement, there has been an increase in the phenomenon where IDF soldiers are forced to listen to talks by rabbis on religious matters."
By Sandy Eller
If you are anything like me, Chol Hamoed can be just the teeniest bit stressful. Okay, maybe very, very stressful. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way.
By N. Schechter
I thank Hashem that my daughters play “shampoo gemach", and I take pride in our community, which stresses gemachs and acts of gemilas chesed. Families try to find ways to help others, and people go out of their way to search for opportunities to practice kindness.
Children of mothers who experienced stress during pregnancy may have increased abilities to cope with mental and physical distress in maturity, according to a study out of the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion and Ha’Emek Hospital in Afula reported by Globes.
By David Ratner
Rambam Medical Center Public Affairs Director David Ratner describes how the life of a young Palestinian girl was saved by the hospital.
On the twentieth day of Teves we mark the 808th yahrzeit of Rabeinu Moshe ben Maimon, the Rambam (Maimonides). The Rambam (Maimonides) lived from 1135 to 1204. His scholarly works are world-renowned and it is about him that we say, “From Moses to Moses there never arose so great a person as Moses.”
By dvora
We have all been raised in a culture which we are taught to believe in the “miracles of modern medicine.”
July 10, 2026 
