Health and Medicine

For Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, ISRAEL21c looks at new advances from Israel that are making headlines

Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, Bone Density, Colonoscopy

Remember, “If you decide to treat yourself you have a fool for a patient!”

‘Instead of having to check millions of molecules, we may check just 20, 100 or maybe up to 3,000 molecules,’ says Jerusalem-based Pepticom

If this is the first time you have heard about facet joint treatment, you may wish to ask your doctor for more information

Food allergies are rising dramatically around the world. One startup thinks it may have the solution – a device that acts like a mini nose sniffing food for dangerous allergens

Sugar: Come Halloween, it is scary what children consume

Pacifier Biosensor: Towards Noninvasive Saliva Biomarker Monitoring

Scientists produce pharmaceutical ingredients from woodchips

Sonovia’s technique, developed at Bar-Ilan University, could also make fabrics fire resistant, water repellant and even body odor-proof

Aҫaí berry extract can reduce malaria parasites in the blood, prolonging survival in infected mice

Young blood may hold the weapons for targeting age-related diseases

Metabolic changes in rats’ brains on and off methamphetamine could help researchers identify biomarkers and treatments for addiction

But if you are overweight and a candidate for Type 2 diabetes, sugar substitutes may be helpful. In my view, obesity is a far greater health hazard than sugar substitutes

Novel immunotherapy extends therapy now used in fighting leukemia, Israeli researchers say.

Israeli microbiome research will help in predicting, diagnosing and treating a wide range of conditions and diseases.

Karyopharm of Israel and Massachusetts gets FDA approval for XPOVIO, the first drug aimed to help natural tumor-suppressing proteins do their job.

So keep children clean, but don’t be obsessive. The best defense against infection is a strong immune system

‘Clara,’ still in testing stages, works on a new understanding that Alzheimer’s affects the brain’s orientation system before affecting memory.

The redemption of James Wilson, gene therapy pioneer

Monosex prawns developed at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University may be used as efficient biocontrol agents against parasites in aquaculture.

Antarctic sea sponge extracts provide leads for new malaria treatments

We have become victims of “pillitis”

As the fields of telehealth and ‘femtech’ grow, pregnant women will have access to more solutions for their concerns along the way

Aquamin

There is an elephant in the room when it comes to the subject of autism. And that elephant is the worldwide blitzkrieg of ultrasound exams on pregnant women

A miniature cyborg heart (shown in a dish below, being tested for electrical activity) could help researchers better understand how the human heart works

In our society, no person should go hungry in order to have needed medication. But will free drugs result in longer waiting lists for surgery? Or will there be fewer palliative beds for those in pain? These and other questions must be resolved.

Predictix by Taliaz aims to help psychiatrists match each patient with the most effective prescription