Tag: medicine

Israeli doctors will soon be able to prescribe medical cannabis for their patients.

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...

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

The trauma of the Holocaust is transmitted genetically through the generations.

Administrative detention is temporarily cancelled for the hunger-striking terrorist.

A medical team at Rambam Hospital in Haifa traveled to Hebron to save the life of a young Arab teen.

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.

Mental health care services are moving from the Health Ministry to direct supervision under the four Israeli HMOs.

An American woman has died in Israel after possibly suffering heat stroke and falling while hiking at Masada.

Bnei Brak Hassidic woman and child are fine after C-section birth of in-vitro-fertilization baby.

An American general says the US is facing a "national security" crisis over obesity among the nation's youth.

Israeli scientists are testing a new therapy - with cannabis -- for diabetes.

ISIS fighters in Syria may ultimately be felled by a skin disease likely to be wracking thousands of its ranks.

A new study conducted by an Israeli scientist finds that Omega-3 helps reduce a smoker's craving for nicotine.

Over fifty and having trouble keeping track of car, keys and new faces? A component in chocolate may help.

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.

Israeli researchers discover a common blood pressure medication can prevent epilepsy from developing after TBI.

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...

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...

"Every doctor knows that overuse of the TMJ will cause headaches."

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...

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...

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...

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.