By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A recent study conducted in Israel and the US has reaffirmed what Israeli former MK Rachel Adatto has claimed for years: there's a link between "airbrushed" images of models and anorexia. The study is a major confirmation for the law passed by Adatto in 2012, banning the use of retouched images and seriously underweight models.

Essential tremor, most commonly known as a symptom of Parkinson's disease, is a condition that causes people's hands to shake. Israeli researchers from Rambam Medical Center have been able to significantly reduce tremors in a 73 year-old man, using focused ultrasound.

One of the hardest things for recovering addicts is resisting temptation. An Israeli-led research has identified the part of the brain that causes alcoholics to crave alcohol again and even found a way to shut it down.

Despite their sting, bees are an important part of the food chain, due to their role as pollinators. For years, scientists have been trying to find pesticides that don't harm them. Israeli scientists now say the answer may be a hormone derived from the bees themselves.

Though the cause for global warming is still open to debate, its effects are not. Now, alongside troubling phenomena such as desertification and glacier-melting, it seems that it may also be the cause for the spreading of the West Nile virus.

For 5,000 years, dates have been considered part of a healthy diet. A recent study from Israel examined the nine varieties growing in the holy land and showed that the sweet fruit is good for your heart and liver.

According to estimates, one in every 15,000 babies will be born with PCD, a condition that causes organs to develop on the wrong side of the body. A recent research from Israel has discovered a mutation that may be the cause for the condition.

Israeli researchers have made a discovery that may very well ease the lives of many people suffering from back pain. As a recent study reveals, walking three times a week is just as effective for pain-relief as in-clinic treatment.

Approximately 250 million people worldwide suffer from orphan diseases – conditions that are too rare to receive funding for research. Now, a new initiative aims to use crowd-funding to raise money for new research.

When 1,000 apparently healthy Israelis of a median age of 48 were screened at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center for 11 of the most common cancers, 2.4 percent (24) were diagnosed at an early stage with malignancies and treated successfully.

An Israeli researcher may have found a solution that will revolutionize treatment for people with back problems caused by damaged spinal discs. Dr. Sarit Sivan has invented an injectable material that can repair damaged discs.

Though a cure for blindness has not yet been found, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that by using special sensory equipment, called SSDs, the blind could actually "see" their surroundings using a camera that converts a visual feed to an audio one.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have mapped the microstructure of the brain's white matter for the first time. The data collected could be implemented in the prediction of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Many known drugs have serious side effects, which cause inflammatory and allergic reactions in patients. A researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a synthetic family of drugs which are highly efficient, yet have no known side effects.

Five ongoing research projects focusing on regenerative medicine will receive funding from both the Israeli and the British government. The project is part of BIRAX, a scientific collaboration between the British and Israeli government, which began in 2008.