Science

Brain function is based on tasks and not senses, says new research conducted in Israel and France, which challenges prevailing view among scientists.

Israeli and American scientists have developed a drug to treat chronic wounds - those wounds that do not heal in an orderly set of stages and in a predictable amount of time the way most wounds dousing - using cutting edge Nano-Technology.

If you speak English, Arabic or Russian and are confounded by forms and other documents and services in the health system that appear only in Hebrew, relief will come, gradually, within two years.

Antioxidants might impair female fertility, a Weitzmann Institute research recently found.

Eighteen shopping malls around Israel will later this month ask visitors to give a saliva sample to find a compatible bone marrow donor for a 12-and-a-half-year-old boy, Or Yosipov, who suffers from leukemia.

Israeli Facebook users have contributed ideas and suggestions for natural remedies to fight coughs, stomach aches and other illnesses. The users take part in a competition, held in collaboration with Israeli websites Ynet and InfoMed, which offers prizes to those who contribute to the Facebook reservoir of  grandmother-style remedies and cures. In honor of latest […]

Each year, it is estimated that several thousand epilepsy patients in the United States alone will die or suffer severe brain damage from an unattended epileptic seizure. EpiLert is based on a sensor that can detect the limb movements associated with an epileptic seizure.

The more educated you are, the less likely you are to smoke, be disabled or contract diabetes and the more likely you are to exercise, National Health Survey says.

Israeli doctors are training local doctors all over Africa to circumcise adult men in order to reduce the spread of HIV/Aids on the continent.

A new campaign co-shared by Israel's YNET news, the Israeli Pelephone cellular company and the Israeli center for organ donation will try to recruit people who are willing to sign an ADI card for organ donation by text message. Hundreds of thousands of Pelephone's customers will receive a message in which they will be asked to sign an organ donation card. The signature will be performed by a return message.

Tel Aviv University chemistry researchers claim to be the first to have developed a technique that neutralizes the ability of bacteria to develop resistance to antibiotics, according to a paper just published in the journal Organic Biomolecular Chemistry by Dr. Micha Fridman and partners at the University of Michigan.

The female birth control pill, commonly referred to as 'The Pill,' is not 100 percent effective, and some women's bodies don't react well to the extra hormones. Now, finally, a new birth control option for men is in the works, which would allow partners to share the responsibility.MALE

Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it might help women who are trying to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a small study suggests.

In just three weeks, a team of Israeli aid workers completed construction of a hospital emergency room - the only facility of its kind - in Kisumu, Kenya.

The negative health consequences of smoking and inhaling second-hand smoke are well known. Recently researchers have uncovered the dangers of thirdhand smoke that comes from toxic nicotine byproducts lingering in carpets, paper and fabric.