Science

Scientists have developed a pocket-sized sensor that can quickly detect the presence of date rape drugs in beverages and raise the alarm.This new device could help prevent sexual assault against thousands of women each year.

Few could imagine what is going on inside the small warehouse overlooking Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. Scattered throughout the space, hundreds of limbs are piled onto each other: arms, legs, some painted the color of human flesh, others colored deep hues. It is here that patients come from all over the world to be fitted with prosthetic limbs.

Painkilling, anti-inflammatory drug may help prevent headaches in Jews abstaining from eating for 25 hours on Yom Kippur, Muslims fasting from dawn to dusk for Ramadan, according to research conducted in Israel.

On September 5th, a group of 120 biomedical researchers, educators, clinicians and parent/advocates from Israel's Negev region met in Beersheva for a daylong conference about the latest advances in autism research and treatment in Israel and throughout the world.

A study conducted at the Ben-Gurion University in Israel has found the gene responsible for nearsightedness by studying a Bedouin tribe. The research will lead the way for future studies of the disability in larger populations as well.

Two Israeli doctors have developed a system they say will keep their patients healthier their whole lives. And all they have to teach them is how to be happier. "It's really not much more complicated than that," say the doctors.

Researchers from Israel have found an innovative treatment involving magnetic brain stimulation and memory exposure of traumatic experience to help those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Heart of the Matter, an Israeli program sponsored by the European Union, organizes hundreds of Palestinian children's journeys to Israel for heart surgeries. The program is an offshoot of Israeli organization Save a Child’s Heart which for the past 15 years has flown over more than 2,500 children from 43 countries where adequate cardiovascular care is unavailable.

Researchers at the medical departments of Ben-Gurion University and the Soroka Medical Center in Israel found that a short dip in Dead Sea waters leads to a significant decrease in the levels of sugar in the blood and could improve the medical condition of diabetics.

Examining patients and taking a medical history is more useful to hospital doctors in diagnosing patients than high-tech CT scans, according to a study from Israel. Doctors said that such tests given right after patients showed up in emergency rooms only helped with diagnosis in roughly one of three cases

Israeli scientists proved that a rare medical condition causing people to be born without fingerprints is linked to a mutation in the genome. To better understand the genetics of fingerprint formation, Dr. Sprecher and colleagues investigated a large Swiss family presenting with adermatoglyphia.

How many different shapes of human noses are there? Ten? Fifty? Hundreds? The correct answer is 14, according to Abraham Tamir, an Israeli scientist. And while the study has its limitations, it is the first-of-its-kind survey detailing the shapes of schnozes.

Due to it's policy of unlimited in vitro fertilization procedures, Israel has become the nation with the highest per-capita babies born that way. Discover Asuta Hospital in Tel Aviv, one of the busiest fertilization clinics in the world.

Stop slouching and check this out: Researchers at Ben Gurion university have developed a way for desktop webcams to keep an eye on office workers’ posture while they are using computers.

Couples trying to get pregnant don't always have it easy. And now there seems to be another obstacle: The summer days. Researchers at Soroka University Medical Center in Israel discovered that the hot weather brings along a decline in the concentration of sperm in the semen. So don't sweat it, just wait till winter.