Science

Chemotherapy often takes a harsh toll on the body. But an emerging anti-cancer drug delivery method from Israel could provide an alternative - with fewer side effects.

As young medical students, the inventors of AposTherapy understood that musculoskeletal conditions could be treated simply by throwing the body slightly off balance.

The Lancet Global Health Journal conducted a study that found Israelis to be the world's ninth healthiest eaters, with astonishingly low cholesterol levels, compared to other Western countries.

While peanut allergy is rare in Israel, it's soaring elsewhere in the world. Are Israelis on to something? Researchers discover the benefits of Israel's beloved peanut snack Bamba

An Israeli medical device to check for the presence of cervical cancer could be an important factor in reducing the rate of death from the disease in the developing world.

To track the genome of a three-year-old girl with a rare disease, Dr. Noam Shomron thought to raise the necessary funds from individual donors over the Internet.

Weizmann researchers were able to create the earliest forms of human reproductive cells in the petri dish, a huge step forward for stem cell research.

Does the future of graft medicine lie in the bottom of the sea? Israeli companies are growing coral for bone grafting in orthopedic and dental procedures.

With so many teenage traffic accidents occurring on a daily basis, it was about time someone looked into ways to keep young drivers' attention on the road.

Studying the different evolutionary stages of cells can help scientists identify tumors at various stages of cancer, following a new method developed at the Technion.

Asthma is a common condition among children, which is why Alvio wants to suit kids' habits with fun mobile games that work to improve breathing patterns.

Mediterranean flowers can fight diabetes and cancer, but they also helped in forming an unlikely partnership between Israeli and Palestinian researchers.

Close to three million Americans aged 55 and older suffer from alcohol abuse — and this figure is expected to reach nearly 6 million by 2020.

Different strains of medical cannabis can now be used to treat conditions from depression to epilepsy, with Israeli 'designer' marijuana leading the market.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University found that a protein in the immune system leads to a decline in a female's egg count, and are now searching for ways to repress it.