Israel ranks 45th on the list of the world's 50 countries with the most cancer patients, but has a relatively low mortality rate, ranking in the 89th place out of 90 countries with the highest number of fatal cancer cases.
Call center will have mental health professionals at callers' disposal and will operate five days a week. Its services will be available in English, French, Spanish, Amharic, and Russian.
According to findings from the National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research, 62% of Israeli men and 55% of Israeli women are overweight, and over one-quarter of adult men and 12.4% of adult women smoke cigarettes.
Hospitals point to dire lack of equipment and the Finance Ministry's refusal to negotiate increased budgets.
Dr. Raz Hagoel: Findings show we need to change how we treat overweight patients, and thus help them avoid years of struggles as well as conditions associated with extreme body weight.
Coronavirus testing continues in order to help authorities cut off outbreaks. Tests for urgent surgeries, women in labor, and cancer patients will continue, but other lab services will stop.
To prevent a two-front outbreak, experts at the Corona National Information and Knowledge Center recommend an aggressive policy to vaccinate the public against the flu, with clear target numbers and an emphasis on at-risk groups and groups prone to spreading infection.
Abd al-Karim Abu Grad was born with hereditary kidney disease that soon turned life-threatening. Despite hurdlers placed by the PA and the coronavirus outbreak, doctors at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa refused to give up.
StuffThatWorks co-founder Yael Elish, former head of product at Waze: "People are the ones that hold in-depth knowledge about themselves, their condition, and the way treatments affect them."
Israel’s tree-hugging campaign follows a similar endeavor launched in April by Iceland’s forestry service. "We are not hugging too many people these days – not our children, not our grandchildren – and hugging a tree is quite a nice thing to do," one hugger says.