Dr. Micah Leshem: Once you are aware that low sodium levels in infancy lead to an increased appetite for salt, you can understand and explain what is happening to the child.Salt, according to researcher Dr. Micah Leshem, is the essence …
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A ‘watch’ that stops unnecessary heart attack deaths
GE is banking on Oxitone wrist monitor to provide a heads-up for someone to get medical assistance before it’s too late.
Healing open wounds – Israeli startup on the way to a solution
Dr. Tamar Tennenbaum: We’ve seen a dramatic effect on wound healing behavior. For a renowned dermatologist known worldwide for her research in the field of wound healing, there is an air of informality about Dr. Tamar Tennenbaum. But the woman …
Israeli researchers develop method to ‘clean the brain’
Rather than temporarily blocking the glutamate’s toxic action with drugs inside the brain, the method clears the chemical away from the brain into the blood, where it can’t do harm anymore.Treatment of brain injuries may become easier with the development …
Discovering the secret to the civilization-starting chickpea
Zohar Kerem: We believe that ancient man could distinguish the higher level of tryptophan in the chickpeas and knew that it was good for them.Researchers have long claimed that the nutritional benefits of chickpeas could be one of the reasons …
Beating heart tissue from embryonic stem cells created in Israeli lab
Prof. Lior Gepstein in the lab – the creation of blood vessels in the system is as important as the beating heart tissue.An Israeli scientific team from the Technion have succeeded in creating in the laboratory beating heart tissue from …
Israeli team part of international discovery of new gene for Alzheimer Disease
The five-year study involved DNA samples from 6,000 volunteers.Researchers from the Technion in Haifa, Israel are part of an international team of scientists who have uncovered a major new gene – SORL1 – for late-onset Alzheimer disease. Alzheimer’s disease, which …
Israeli degree in ‘medical clowning’ a prescription for health
‘We want to be part of the hospital staff. This course will open doors for us. Hospitals will see it as a serious profession once there is a degree [in the field].’Laughter is the best medicine – an old saying, …
Bedouin genetic defect identified by Israeli scientists
The findings “open a new field of research into these common neurodegenerative diseases.”A gene prevalent in a Bedouin tribe in southern Israel that causes a severe hereditary neuro-degenerative disease has been identified by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev research …
Israeli medical diagnostics ‘moo-ves’ to the farm
Veterix CEO Eliav Tahar: We looked for a solution and the main reason was the welfare of the animals. I wanted to give the quickest remedy to any problem an animal has. If Little Bo Peep wants to find her …
Antibiotic substitute developed by Israeli researchers
The Technion team used a fatty acid to activate the peptide so it acts specifically against Pseudonomas bacteria, which usually causes lung infections.Two recent Israeli studies are shedding new light on fighting bacteria using antibiotics. In the first, researchers at …