Health Ministry approves 135 subsidized medications and health technologies worth $175.5 million. Nevertheless, several crucial treatments, including for certain cancer types and diabetes, fail to make the list.
Knesset Health Committee Chairwoman Idit Salman looks to raise minimum smoking age to 21, require police to enforce anti-smoking laws to combat smoking in Israel.
With over 200,000 Israelis in quarantine due to coronavirus, sales of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products spike by at least 30%.
Breakthrough could allow seriously ill cardiac patients to enjoy near-normal quality of life.
On Monday, 57-year-old David Bennett of Maryland was breathing on his own while still connected to a heart-lung machine to help his new heart. The next few weeks will be critical as he recovers from the surgery and doctors carefully monitor how his heart is faring.
Meta-analysis from Shaare Zedek Medical Center concludes that vaccines do not harm fertility of either women or men. Professor Talia Eldar-Geva: There has been no scientific research that contradicts these findings.
Physicians at Rambam Medical Center came up with the innovative idea to use material from the 60-year-old woman’s shin bone to form a new cornea after concluding she was not a candidate for conventional treatment.
CoBe Labs' application seeks to fuse together advance technology with treatment protocols.
Since the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for use, there have been rumors that it can affect women's fertility. Some anti-vaccine activists have espoused these claims.
After analyzing the electronic medical records of some 8,000 patients, the algorithm automatically identified risk factors at a success rate of 82%.