What are you afraid of? Everybody is afraid of something. But when fear becomes extreme, with full or partial avoidance of specific objects or situations, it becomes a phobia. If your life is disrupted by a phobia, treatment that integrates …
Author Archives: Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
Israeli photovoltaic cells to produce inexpensive electricity
Prof. Arie Zaban: This will mark the beginning of a whole new path that combines independence from fossil fuels with a greener, more sustainable future. A Bar-Ilan Univeristy nanotechnology expert has invented a photovoltaic cell – which produces electricity from …
Israeli researcher claims to have found antioxidant ‘fountain of youth’
Unlike sunscreens, which merely protect the skin from much of the harm of UV rays, Bossi said her antioxidant retards the aging of the skinA pioneering way to prevent wrinkles has been cooked up by a Hebrew University researcher. Dr. …
Israeli research finds that THC could alleviate allergic skin disease
Mice lacking cannabinoid receptors display exacerbated inflammatory skin responses to an allergen.A chemical found in the cannabis (hashish) plant can help the body’s immune system alleviate a common skin disease called allergic contact dermatitis, according to a group of researchers …
Israeli species could offer solution to looming global wheat disease
Reactions of resistant and susceptible selections of Sharon goatgrass to wheat stem rust.A native Israeli wheat species is the likely botanic “antidote” to a new fungus strain that threatens 70 percent of the world’s wheat crops and is relentlessly moving …
Landmark Israeli-led study to improve diagnosis of diabetes
The World Health Organization, the US National Institute of Health and others are expected to change their definition of gestational diabetes, based on an international study led by an Israeli medical team. Gestational diabetes can cause serious complications in infants. …
Israeli scientists develop ‘Fantastic Voyage’-like robot
‘Medicine is going to be much more focused, and the need to reach an exact target will only increase.’Israeli scientists have actually created the imaginary technology depicted by the 1966 science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, in which a submarine is …
New Israeli treatment holds out hope for infertile couples
It was Dr. Yigal Gat’s expertise in hydraulics and fluid mechanics (he has a master’s degree in engineering at the Technion in Haifa) that enabled him years later – as a physician – to understand the main cause of male …
Cardiologists’ breakthrough in Israel reduces need for catheterization
Prof. Rafael Beyar and colleague Dr. Genia Nikolsky, director of research in interventional cardiology, in the Rambam Medical Center’s Catheterization lab.Cardiologists from Rambam Medical Center in Haifa have proven for the first time that a prototype hybrid device combining a …
Israeli medicine’s magic wand
The Medex Test – After an initial reading of the “electrical impedence” of the body’s “dermal-visceral zones,” a harmless electric current is passed, and another reading is made.Physicians have for millennia dreamed of having a magic wand that could be …