Health

Health Ministry: Watch those eggs

Always buy eggs from reputable shops and other Health Ministry instructions.

Elusive answer to length of Saturn’s day reached with TAU, Weizmann team

Team finds the length of day of Saturn to be 10 hours, 32 minutes and 45 seconds.

Yad Sarah prints large-font Haggada

Downloadable large-print Haggada available for vision disabled from Yad Sarah.

Science, Technology and Space Ministry names Arab chemical engineer its deputy chief scientist

A few years ago, the ministry’s deputy chief scientist was an Israeli Arab from the North.

BGU and University of California researchers discover new mechanism in Lou Gehrig’s disease

Discovery bears potential to serve as a target for novel therapeutic intervention to treat not only ALS.

*Health Scan: Few kite surfers wear protective gear, raising risk of serious injury*

Dr. Pavel Kotlarsky, Dr. Yaron Berkowitz and colleagues examined the records of practitioners of the sport that they had treated over a decade.

*Rediscovering America*

The Health Ministry, plagued for decades by rapid turnover of ministers not enamored of the job and senior officials who know they won’t get credit for what they do, needs an upgrade.

Casting the right decision

Plaster casts are the standard for setting broken bones, but is the increased price for a fiberglass mold worth the potential ease?

By RX FOR READERS/JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

All trained emergency medical staff to be equipped with Epipens

There are thousands of Israelis who could have a severe allergic reaction to certain substances, MDA official says.

Over 300 new cases of TB diagnosed; directly observed antibiotics cocktail mostly effective

The TB prevalence in Israel is 3.8 people per 100,000

Einstein’s Relativity confirmed

Israeli, French and Italian scientists find ‘space-time foam’ not slowing photons from distant gamma-ray burst.

New Worlds: Ocean-floor stardust shows gold and uranium rare in stars

Researchers analyzed core samples collected from the Pacific Ocean floor.

Clearing the air

First Lady Nechama Rivlin came out publicly against smoking and volunteered to help anti-smoking efforts at a clinical conference held recently at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Pre-Passover cleaning causes the most home injuries and poisoning

Tips for staying safe while preparing the home for the big holiday.

First aid personnel and facilities ready for Friday’s Jerusalem Marathon

The Jerusalem Marathon is considered more difficult than than in usually hotter Tel Aviv race.

Heart attack victims still die because of lack of $1,000 AEDs in public places

Over six years after law passed, Economics Ministry begins to map out where defibrillators have been and must be installed.

Health Ministry offers free shots against papilloma virus to 8th-grade boys

Refusal of many religious parents to allow daughters to get shots and fewer needed under 14 frees up funds.

Jerusalem doctors save 5-year-old who choked on piece of his Purim costume

Doctors managed to remove little metal bell that disconnected from child's Purim costume and entered his gastrointestinal system.

Healing the cancer, hurting the heart

Working in a new medical field, a handful of experts have realized that chemotherapy and radiation treatment for oncology patients may harm cardiac health.

For your own good, mean it when you wish customers 'have a nice day'

The employee is expected to suppress normal positive emotions, as these take up valuable work time and reduce service uniformity.

**Is it all in the family?**

Many diseases can be traced back to our genetic makeup, but autoimmune diseases are usually a combination of genes and environmental factors.

By RX FOR READERS/JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Shaking hands evolved as method to check out each other’s odors

Neurobiologists in Rehovot publish study showing that not only do people often sniff their own hands, but they do so for a much longer time after shaking someone else’s hand.

Environment until age one, not only genes, play key role in babies’ eventual adult height

The Journal of Pediatrics publishes study saying that while genetics do have a significant effect on a person’s height, so, too, do environmental elements.

Doctors at Afula-area hospital develop test to predict fatal condition in pregnant women

The condition has often been identified in women too late, when they already suffer from hypertension, kidney complications or protein in urine.

Handshaking evolved to communicate by checking others’ odors

Researchers find that a handshake alone is sufficient for the transfer of several odors known to serve as meaningful chemical signals in mammals.

Family of Haifa urologist killed in car accident donate organs for transplant

“His heart was like a diamond,” said one of his colleagues at Carmel. “We will miss your smile, and a giant hole has opened for us.”

More fiber and coffee reduce the risk of colorectal cancer

In 2012, 1,355 Israelis died of the disease - 611 Jewish men, 602 Jewish men, 50 Arab men and 43 Arab women.

Dr. Sanford Kuvin, infectious disease expert, dies

The Sanford Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases is the world’s leading research center in the world for malaria and other infectious diseases.

New worlds: Out of the blue

Prof. Nir Orion is developing a project that will be included in the Peruvian science curriculum.