Medicine

How animated video prescriptions are revolutionizing patient care

Israeli start-up GistMD partners with Mayo Clinic to deliver AI-powered, personalized video care instructions that improve patient understanding and outcomes.

 An illustrative image of a nurse writing a prescription.
 Meuhedet Health Fund

Smart medicine: Artificial intelligence reaches the health fund

 An illustrative image of a hospital bed.

Israel to integrate mental health centers into general hospitals

 An illustrative image of psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms.

This is your brain on magic mushrooms: My first experience with psilocybin - opinion


All three anti-Israel motions at British Medical conference pass with majority vote

Motion 42 asks for the BMA to affirm "the right of healthcare professionals and medical students to criticize states, governments, or institutions for actions that contravene international law."

The Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom.

Why paracetamol – one of the world’s most common painkillers – works

A new Israeli study reveals that paracetamol doesn’t function only in the brain; it also blocks pain at its source by acting on nerve endings in the body.

 Boxes of paracetamol are pictured on the production line for UPSA brand of Bristol-Myers Squibb Group at the company's factory in Le Passage, near Agen, France March 29, 2018

Woman mistakenly declared dead wakes up in her coffin in Czech Republic

The mistake was reportedly made after the woman’s husband failed to wake her and called emergency services.

 Museum of Funeral Customs, Springfield, Illinois, 2006.

Dozens of Israeli children develop malignant tumors from sperm donor

The Health Ministry issued an unusual warning following the discovery of a sperm donor who carried a rare syndrome that increases the risk of many types of cancer in offspring.

 Heart hologram and doctor, heart disease. Health care of the future. Modern Medical Science, Hi Tech Diagnostic Panel. Mixed medium, copy space

Grapevine, May 16, 2025: Generous gift to the University of Haifa

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 SHARON HESKIA and Avi Levi.

British scientists find treatment for disease that contributed to Pope Francis’s death

The drug is manufactured by the US firm Insmed and made possible after 15 years of research by scientists from the University of Dundee.

 A woman holds a picture of Pope Francis inside Buenos Aires' Metropolitan Cathedral, after the death of pontiff was announced by the Vatican, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 21, 2025.

Blackstone president Jonathan Gray donates $125 million to Tel Aviv University

This donation, the largest in the history of the university, will fund the development of new facilities and scholarships for the School of Health and Medical Sciences.

 Jonathan Gray and his wife Mindy have made the largest donation in Tel Aviv University's history.

Israeli breakthrough identifies key defective gene in common heart disease

This discovery is predicted to transform genetic screening and treatment protocols for patients worldwide.

A heart

Sham doctor tells authorities, ‘I panicked’ after New York mom dies in botched plastic surgery 

Felipe Hoyos Foronda was arrested before he could board a flight at JFK.

 Felipe Hoyos-Foronda.

KKL-JNF rehabilitates injured forest dormouse after rare daytime sighting

A rare forest dormouse spotted at a Galilee factory was rescued, treated, and released back into the wild by KKL-JNF.

 An injured forest dormouse being treated at KKL-JNF's Hula Valley Wildlife Acclimatization Center, April 2025.

Einnahme von Vitaminen kann Krebs-Risiko erhöhen – Studie

Antioxidantien können Krebstumoren helfen, neue Blutgefäße zu bilden, was das Wachstum und die Ausbreitung des Krebses fördert.

 Eine 3D-Darstellung von Krebszellen (illustrativ).