Doing a blood glucose level test – treatment with Bezafibrate reduced incidences of diabetes by thirty percent and delays its onset by one year.A new Israeli research study has opened a new avenue for preventing diabetes – one of the …

Medical students at the Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine – New York State/ American Program. It was a proud moment and the culmination of an important journey, when sixty students from across the United States and Canada received …

From the chilly waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the blue surf of the Pacific, swimmers and surfers are getting ready for a long, hot – and wet – summer. One of the few negative aspects to spending days luxuriating …

Dr. Yuval Gielchinsky: From our statistical model it appeared that we were looking at women with a genetic advantage.American women are increasingly putting off having babies until later in life for a variety of reasons – focus on career, lack …

‘Our study shows that once exposed to cigarette smoke, saliva undergoes an affect which turns it from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde.’ – Dr Rafi NaglerA study conducted by Israeli scientists shows that smoking tobacco destroys protective molecules in saliva …

An American doctor visits a patient in this illustrative photo. Twenty of the ties examined contained one or more microorganisms known to cause disease. In Israel, almost everyone dresses casually. Aside from the television anchormen on the nightly newscast, you …

Christopher Reeve visits the Weizmann Institute last year. “The Weizmann Institute, as I saw first-hand… has established preeminence in the field of paralysis research.” Dr. Mike Fainzilber found his inspiration to pursue a cure for paralysis early in life. The …

Prof. Smadar Cohen: We found that there is a high proliferation rate of cells in this area where the scaffold is implanted.One of the greatest roadblocks in helping heart attack victims fully recuperate and rehabilitate is the amount of heart …

Prof. Ran Kronowsky – Angioplasty techniques need to be modified especially when facing patients who are problematic due to small vessles which have become calcified.Women who have suffered heart attacks and undergone emergency angioplasty are four times more likely to …

Members of the Weizmann Institute team clockwise from top left: Binyamin Gil, Prof Ehud Shapiro, Uri Ben-Dor, Yaakov Benenson and Rivka Adar.In the 1960s science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a vessel is shrunk by military researchers and dispatched to destroy …