Health & Wellness

Staff at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba conduct rare operation to remove a parasitic cyst from brain of six-year-old Qusay al-Hamidi.

Bezeq says that anywhere between tens to hundreds of phone booths will be converted. Plan still needs final regulatory approval from the government.

Alpha Tau says it has successfully completed its first-in-human clinical trial of Alpha DaRT, a radiation cancer therapy, with squamous cell carcinoma patients from Italy and Israel.

Two-year-old Hamza Ali Mohammad from Ramallah was born with life-threatening congenital heart disease and underwent risky surgery at the Wolfson Medical Center. "The whole medical team became his parents," doctor says.

Plaintiff is suing two hospitals that misdiagnosed a benign growth on grounds that the unnecessary treatments caused her physical and emotional harm.

Head of surgery at Sourasky Medical Center: We have seen an 80% drop in the number of justified ER visits. Taub Center report warns that hundreds or thousands of Israelis could become "indirect" victims of the corona epidemic.

"People are shutting themselves off and are lonelier. There are also callers with mental health issues, who have lower stress thresholds and their anxiety is greater," says one mental health volunteer.

The Rochester-based Mayo Clinic led the global rankings for a second year. Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center named the world’s 34th top hospital. As Israel’s largest medical facility, Sheba Medical Center cares for approximately 1.6 million people every year.

Expanding its precautionary steps in combating the coronavirus, the ministry says it is also now urging the public "to reconsider the necessity of flights abroad in general, beyond the required isolation upon return from specific countries."

In new effort to curtail spread of coronavirus, ministry orders mandatory quarantine on people arriving from several countries. With Thailand being a top destination for Israeli tourists, this could impact hundreds of thousands of Israelis.