Health & Wellness

Interventional oncology is "one of the more rapidly growing fields expected to bring significant breakthroughs in cancer management," says MEDX Xelerator CEO Shai Policker.  

Save a Child's Heart works to improve pediatric cardiac care in developing countries. 50% of its patients are Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip and West Bank.  

Professor Illana Gozes, Professor Victor OK Li and Dr. Jacqueline CK Lam have created an artificial intelligence-led strategy that helps selected drug candidates for new Alzheimer's therapies.

Weizmann Institute study shows weight gain after "smoking cessation" may be driven by weight-modulating compounds released by the microbiome, which can be remedied by broad-spectrum antibiotics that deplete it.

Matnat Chaim organization hails "incredible revolution," says Israel now "spearheading" altruistic kidney donations. Organization, which encourages kidney donation, says 215 Israelis set to donate their kidney by the end of 2021.

Researchers develop the trailblazing Nano-Ghost platform that allows for the reduction of drug dosage by a factor of a million while maintaining the same effect, and does not damage healthy tissue.

The $75 million program will focus on encouraging healthy lifestyles and providing health services in the Galilee, where residents are three times more likely to develop the disease than in other areas of the country.

Thousands in the ultra-Orthodox community cancelled blood donations after the words "father" and "mother" on Magen David Adom blood donation forms are changed to "parent 1" and "parent 2."

Since the new algorithm was introduced, Maccabi health fund doctors have treated tens of thousands of UTI cases, and there has been a drop of around 35% in the need to switch antibiotics following the development of bacterial resistance to the drug prescribed.