Science

A t-shirt that tests heart activity, called Niturit has recently been developed by an Israeli-Portuguese team. The t-shirt can test heart activity and transmit the data to a medical center in real time. The European Space Agency is already using the shirt to test their astronauts.

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have discovered a way to reverse the aging process by removing old B lymphocytes – a kind of white blood cell in vertebrate immune systems from old mice.

An Israeli study reveals that children who snore in their sleep, are at a higher risk of heart disease. Early detection and surgery can help significantly reduce the risk, the study finds.

Three days after the earthquake leveled Haiti last year, Israeli medical teams set up a hospital in a soccer field with equipment and supplies unheard of in the rest of the broken city. Now Israel has erected 7 medical buildings at Japan's "ground zero."

For the first time, a direct link between stress and damage to the chromosomes in every cell has been shown, with the ends – called telomeres – shortening as people are more exposed to chronic emotional stress.

With nearly 25% infant mortality rate, Ghana asked help from Israel's Agency for International Development in 2007. Nearly five years later, 10,000 mothers and babies have gone through neonatal care in Israeli built clinics.

Although Jordan and Israel have long had their differences, the possibility of earthquakes in the Syrian-African Rift inspired a cooperation between the Arab and Jewish country.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a pathway whereby harmful bacteria communicate with each other

Tnuva, one of Israels’ largest dairy farms, has manufactured a new milk for those suffering from lactose intolerance.

Many patients scheduled for a major spinal operation naturally worry that they might find themselves in a wheelchair due to a surgical error, or simple bad luck. While this happens only rarely, it is a possibility. SpineAssist – an Israeli invention – is revolutionizing delicate spinal surgery.

Women suffering from anorexia or bulimia portray themselves very differently in drawings than those who do not have eating disorders.

Scientists hope that in the near future it will be possible to perform a simple blood test to analyze a person's genes and based on the results, advise them on what foods they should and shouldn’t eat in order to prevent diseases they are inclined to develop.

Malignant colorectal tumors are preventable, and when caught as precancerous polyps, growths can be safely removed.

Eating foods like salmon, rich in omega 3 oils, appears to reduce the negative effects of a gene associated with Alzheimer's.

A study from the Shiba medical center in Israel has revealed that a daily caffeine intake equivalent to 3 cups of coffee could protect against heart disease.