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Politics | Healthcare

US medical model: ‘sick, overmedicated, and shaped by Big Pharma’

The United States is the most medicated country in the world, with 70 percent of Americans using at least one prescription drug daily.

Politics | Politics

Lancet Urges Shift Away from Human-Centered Health Care

Lancet medical journal urges a “revolutionary shift of perspective” away from human-centered health care in favor of “ecological equity.”

Politics | POLITICS

Report Reveals Just How Much the DEI Complex Has Infiltrated Medical Education

Forty-four percent of medical schools have tenure and promotion policies that reward scholarship on “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” Seventy percent make students take a course on “diversity, inclusion, or cultural competence.” And 79 percent require t

Politics | Liberal Fascism

LGBTQ+++© Police State: 'Trans Buddies' Now Assigned to Monitor Doctors for Transphobia

Respecting The Science©, as we are trained to do, obviously requires that we place LGBTQ+++© Gestapo in every doctor's office in America.

Politics | Healthcare

INFOGRAPHIC: Approved and Non-FDA Approved COVID-19 Treatments

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, hundreds of studies have examined the efficacy of ...

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Tel Aviv University – Latest Israeli Medical Research

Tel Aviv University – Latest Israeli Medical Research   For the first time under laboratory conditions New study at Tel Aviv University: Medicinal cannabis oil found effective for treating autism Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by PhD s

News | The News

Second HIV Patient Appears to Have Cleared Virus From the Body | Time

Does the case could represent the possibility of sterilizing immunity, or a cure for HIV?

Health & Fitness | Health News

How I Reversed an Autoimmune Disease (Part 1)

Today I live a healthy, happy life. You’d never know that 6 years ago I nearly died from an advanced stage of an autoimmune disease and no doctor could help me.

News | News

Mark Okrent – A Uniquely Israeli Experience

Mark Okrent – A Uniquely Israeli Experience I think that my North American and British friends might be interested in the following Israeli anecdote which I experienced today.   This morning, I received a Whatsapp message from one of the “old

News | News

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 28, 2021

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 28, 2021 Despite today being the fast of Tammuz, I’m still publishing this week’s positive Israel newsletter. As you will see, Israeli innovations and activities are bringing us closer to a futu

News | News

This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 29, 2020

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 29, 2020 It is certainly refreshing to see so many Israeli innovations that benefit the environment and agriculture in this week’s positive Israel newsletter. They include a new Israeli agricultural i

Science & Technology | Science & Technology

Blood Vessels Grown in a Petri Dish Closely Resemble Human Ones

The lab-made organoids are fully functional, the team reports, and could aid the study of vascular-related diseases such as diabetes.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

My Employer Asks Personally Invasive Questions; Do I Have to Answer? - Workplace Coach Blog

Question: My employer emailed me a health status questionnaire that’s due Friday. I’m used to and feel okay about questions …

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Autoimmunity On The Rise In The U.S., Especially Among Teens - Study Finds

A recent study led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveals that autoimmunity is on the rise in the US.

News | News

CTECH - Top 50 Israeli startups - 2020 (Covid-19) edition

CTECH – Top 50 Israeli startups – 2020 (Covid-19) edition Israel is home to over 200 growth stage companies. Check out CTech’s list of the country’s 50 most promising startups that we believe will survive and thrive despite coronavirus

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Medical or Humanitarian & New National Dispatch Center Opened To Treat Humanitarian Emergencies

Medical or Humanitarian & New National Dispatch Center Opened To Treat Humanitarian Emergencies Medical or Humanitarian – No Job Is To Tough For A United Hatzalah Volunteer United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, Shlomo Tausky has been an integral part of th

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Blood Test May Detect Breast Cancer BEFORE it Starts

A new, simple blood test currently being developed in the United Kingdom may be a significant game changer in the fight against breast cancer.

Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing

Nvidia uses federated learning to create medical imaging AI | VentureBeat

Nvidia is applying federated learning to medical imaging, a way to protect patient privacy without the need to remove data from hospital servers or devices.

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Israeli Study Shows Promising Results For Melanoma Nano-Vaccine Development | Health News

Researchers at Tel Aviv University say they developed an effective treatment for melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, that proved encouraging in a study on mice. | NoCamels

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WATCH: Israelis Save Lives of Thousands of Kids from 60 Countries Around World!

WATCH: Israelis Save Lives of Thousands of Kids from 60 Countries Around World! Thanks to United with Israel It started with a dream of physicians to share their knowledge and medical skills with the world, explains Dr. Anat Engel, director of Wolfson Med

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

10 Findings That Contradict Medical Wisdom. Doctors, Take Note.

Researchers identified nearly 400 common medical practices and theories that were contradicted by rigorous studies. Here are some of the most notable findings.

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IsraelSeen Exclusive - Saving Lives On Golda Meir Boulevard

IsraelSeen Exclusive – Saving Lives On Golda Meir Boulevard The Ramot intersection on Golda Meir Boulevard in Jerusalem is known as being a very problematic intersection where many accidents occur. Recently one Wednesday night, a serious 4-way colli

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Antidepressants in old age may increase risk of dementia, Israeli study finds | The Times of Israel

Researchers followed 71,000 Israelis, found 3 times as many dementia diagnoses among depressed; some experts argue depression may be an early sign, not a cause

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Israeli Doctors Develop Method of Using 3-D Printers to Simulate Operations

Doctors perform a cardiac surgical procedure (illustrative). Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Israeli doctors have developed a method of using a 3-D …

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WATCH: Israeli Company Provides Simulation Training to Medical Professionals

WATCH: Israeli Company Provides Simulation Training to Medical Professionals Thanks to United with Israel An Israeli startup is now a world leader, providing simulation and training for medical professionals from the field of computer graphics – and sav

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Turn, stop, then sit: A research-based guide for Parkinson's patients | The Times of Israel

Tel Aviv University team studies why patients with Parkinson's disease have difficulty transitioning from walking to sitting, leading to greater instability and falls

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Israeli scientists 'print' world's first 3D heart with human tissue | The Jerusalem post

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers revealed the heart, which was made using a patient’s own cells and biological materials.

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Tech teams at Alyn Hospital hack big health ideas for small patients

At medical center's annual make-a-thon, tech experts, entrepreneurs and medical professionals work to develop assistive technologies for children with disabilities

News | Antisemitism Watch

Doctor who lost job over anti-Semitic tweets removed from second program

Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, withdraws position for Lara Kollab, who was let go from Cleveland Clinic last year after social media posts surfaced

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

How A 1970s TV Show About LA Paramedics Inspired An EMS Transformation Across The Country: LAist

L.A. has been a pioneer in EMS care for decades — on TV and in real life.

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Second skin: Israeli medical device creates temporary nano-layer to treat wounds | The Times of Israel

Lod-based Nanomedic Technologies says its technology dresses burns and other wounds by spinning a fibrous mat without touching the skin, reducing pain and risk of infection

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Israel’s Zebra gets Europe nod for AI-tech that finds brain bleeds, gas in chest

The technology reduces the time it takes radiologists and ER staff to spot acute conditions in scans and X-rays by 80%, kibbutz-based startup says

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Israeli Company Develops Goggles Allowing Surgeons to See Right Through You

Surgeons performing an organ transplant. Photo: Wikipedia. CTech – Ever chose “X-ray vision” as your choice of a hypothetical superpower? …

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Once and for all: Hormone replacement is good for women

Forget the black cohosh and chaste tree, if you're heading into menopause you need exactly the treatment that you may think will harm you: hormone replacement therapy,

Health & Fitness | Health

Dr. Marc Siegel: Miracles await -- 2019 will be a year of amazing strides in medical innovation | Fox News

Remember when Dr. McCoy on “Star Trek” was able to make diagnoses with a tricorder and perform brain surgery by simply putting a futuristic band around a patient’s head? That kind of medicine seemed like pure fantasy at the time.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Eat Leafy Greens To Stop Development Of Macular Degeneration - Study Finds

A new study conducted by Australian researchers finds that eating more leafy greens -- such as lettuce, spinach, or kale -- may help prevent macular degeneration, a condition that causes loss in the center of the field of vision.

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Israeli Inventor Creates Exoskeleton Allowing Paraplegics to Walk Again

There are an estimated 6 million wheelchair users in the United States and Europe, some of whom could walk again if insurance carriers would approve the cost of coverage for a device innovated in Israel.

Health & Fitness | Health News

New Research Reveals What Probiotics Do Inside Gut

Researchers have used invasive techniques to collect samples from inside the stomach and evaluate how well probiotics actually work.

Business & Finance | Economics

Doctor Tells Truth About Gender Pay Gap In Medicine. Then He Was Forced To Apologize.

Telling the truth – albeit not in the best terms – about why women in any particular field earn less than men in the same field will automatically trigger an online rage mob screaming “sexism!’ as Plano, Texas doctor Gary Tigges learned this past

Health & Fitness | Health

98.6 Degrees Is A Normal Body Temperature, Right? Not Quite | WIRED

Fever is a more flexible concept than people assume, as new crowdsourced data helps show.

Health & Fitness | Medical Automation Technology

Who is Leading the Medical Automation Technology field in 2018?

Omnicell's automated healthcare solutions improve operational efficiency, patient safety and satisfaction. Inquire about our healthcare software solutions.

Science & Technology | Science & Technology

Home - Theramine

Theramine is a safer alternative to NSAIDs and opioids. Theramine helps fill the gap that drug pain therapies do not address, by providing the cells of the body with the fuel needed to meet the increased nutritional demands of chronic pain an inflammation

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

What to Do If You Get Sick on Vacation

A guide to getting well in another country, when you don’t have the comforts of home, don’t speak the language, and don’t know the local health-care system.

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

Side effects include ... a potential treatment for baldness - CNN

A drug originally developed to treat osteoporosis may soon be used to reverse hair loss, new research finds.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Why is health care so expensive?

Neither Republicans nor Democrats appear to be addressing why health is fundamentally expensive -- or what to do about it

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

A new kind of doctor's office charges a monthly fee and doesn't take insurance — and it could be the future of medicine

Direct primary care is a new movement of doctors and healthcare providers who don't accept insurance — instead relying on a monthly membership fee.

Science & Technology | Science

Why Do We Have Blood Types?

When my parents informed me that my blood type was A+, I felt a strange sense of pride. If A+ was the top grade in school, then surely A+ was also the most excellent of blood types – a biological mark of distinction.

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

Poltava Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy

Poltava Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy Official website-Study in Ukraine Mbbs,Bds,Md,Pharmacy,Postgraduate,Dentistry,Nursing,and many more .We have no1 rank as compare to other Universities in Ukraine,Kharkiv,Donetsk,Lviv,Ternopil,Kiev,Bokovinia

Health & Fitness | Health

One scientist may have solved a mystery behind brain disorders like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia

Microglia might hold the key to what causes Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, autism, schizophrenia, and other brain disorders.

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Israeli drug makes Alzheimer’s symptoms disappear in mice - Science

Despite optimism, bitter truth is that over 99 percent of clinical trials for Alzheimer’s treatments end in failure.

Entertainment | It doesn't get any better...

Tapeworms and Other Parasites Can Make Good Guests

Some researchers argue that thinking of internal species as enemies, and eradicating them, is a potentially harmful mistake.

Science & Technology | Science

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function

Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients. If a...

News | Good News

Doctors Told a Woman to Take Her Husband Off of Life Support, But She Refused—and Then He Woke Up

What would you do if your partner got into an accident that put him or her into a coma—and doctors told you they'd pull the plug if they were in your shoes? Medical problems test any couple, but Danielle Josey Davis, whose husband, Matthew, got into a motorcycle accident in 2011—just seven months after they had tied the knot—refused to lose hope.

News | News Items

Researchers Identify Virus and Two Types of Bacteria as Major Causes of Alzheimer’s

A worldwide team of senior scientists and clinicians have come together to produce an editorial which indicates that certain microbes - a specific virus and two specific types of bacteria - are major

News | News Items

Could meditation really help slow the aging process?

It may seem unlikely, but a small and growing body of evidence suggesting that regular meditation can indeed slow ageing, as least at a cellular level

News | News Items

An Easy Fix for Vertigo

The most common form of vertigo can be quickly treated by repositioning the head, but many doctors remain unfamiliar with the maneuver.

Health & Fitness | Third Party Services

Blink Health: Rx Prices, Discounts and Information

Prescription drug prices, discounts & information – Blink Price available at all U.S. pharmacies. Price transparency; pay online and pick up at your pharmacy.

Health & Fitness | Health News

How to Cut Your Health-Care Bill: Pay Cash - WSJ

Hospitals and other providers increasingly are offering prices far below what they charge though insurance.

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Scientists Claim Alzheimer’s Is A Set Of Different Diseases That Should Be Treated Separately

Israeli researchers show that Alzheimer's is actually a collection of diseases that should be treated separately - with a variety of different approaches.

Politics | Politics

Doctors 'Horrified’ by Republican Candidates’ Outlook on Vaccines

“I watched the debate, and I was kind of horrified when I heard these comments,” a Harvard medical professor told Yahoo Health. During the debate, Donald Trump told the story of an employee whose “beautiful” baby developed a fever after getting a

Health & Fitness | Psychology!

Testosterone and the brain: New study suggests sex hormones change the way we process language.

However much we’d like to think of gender as a social construct, science suggests that real differences do exist between female and male brains. The latest evidence: a first-of-its-kind European study that finds that the female brain can be drastically

Politics | Obamacare

The newest Obamacare fail: penalties of $36,500 per worker

The Internal Revenue Service swoops in with a money grab, writes Diana Furchtgott-Roth.

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Study: Light Beams To Replace Pacemakers | Health News

Researchers at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology have developed a new approach for the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Story behind the birth control pill "calendar" dispenser - Boing Boing

In 1961, new parents David and Doris Wagner had a baby and Doris went on the birth control pill, just approved by the FDA the year before. Quickly though, Doris and David realized that it was too easy to forget a day and not realize it, so they invented a calendar dispenser that was the basis for the compact-shaped dial packs still common today.

News | Israel

Israel Goes Underground For Protection

Israel has an underground hospital and is building an underground blood bank. Israel's enemies have been allowed to point thousands of destructive rockets at her.

News | Good News!

This man's blood has saved 2 million babies - CNN.com

Australian James Harrison has donated blood plasma every week for 60 years. His blood is used an injection that saves babies from deadly rhesus disease.

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Moptwo - Portner Medical Corporation

Internal Medicine, Allergy & Immunology integrating prescription medicines, herbals, homeopathics, and other appropriate alternate modalities.

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Kidney donation sets off chain reaction of giving | The Times of Israel

When Avraham Shapira donated a kidney to a man he had never met, he intended to keep his act a secret. On his father’s advice, though, he went public — and set off a lifesaving chain reaction.

News | In the News

First evidence of neuroinflammation in brains of chronic pain patients

A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital investigators has found, for the first time, evidence of neuroinflammation in key regions of the brains of patients with chronic pain. By showing that levels of an inflammation-linked protein are elevated in

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

After Thousands Of Years Of Stitching, Israelis Invent New Wound-Closure Method

TopClosure works by stretching out the skin around the wound, and second by ensuring that the wound scars in an aesthetic and healthy fashion.

News | In the News

The Myth of ObamaCare's Affordability - WSJ

In The Wall Street Journal, Casey B. Mulligan writes that the law's perverse incentives will have the nation working fewer hours, and working those hours less productively.

Science & Technology | Science

Medical dilemma of 'three-parent babies': Fertility clinic investigates health of 17 teenagers it helped to be conceived through controversial IVF technique

A private fertility clinic in the United States has launched an investigation into the health of 17 teenagers who were born as a result of a controversial IVF technique that produced the world’s first “three-parent” embryos more than 15 years ago, T

News | In the News

Fish Oil Boosts Brain Power

“They also experienced less brain shrinkage in areas of the brain important for healthy cognitive aging — the cerebral cortex and hippocampus, the portion of the brain responsible for forming and retaining memories.”  For this study, researchers an

News | In the News

Home screening test detects 79% of colorectal cancers

An inexpensive, home-based test could be a good way to get more Americans screened for colorectal cancer, the country's second-leading cause of cancer death.