Adolescents with suicidal thoughts and elevated depression have better and faster reduction of symptoms when treated with family therapy than with private therapy, according to a study by a team that included senior lecturer Dr. Gary Diamond from Israel’s Ben-Gurion …

Satellite photo by NASA. Sunlight illuminates the oil slick off the Mississippi Delta. A natural “bioremediation” technique developed by biologists at an Israeli university may hold the key to the final, difficult steps of the billion dollar oil spill cleanup …

Biondvax Pharmaceuticals, based in central Israel in Ness Ziona, has won the prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2010 European Influenza Vaccines Technology Innovation Award for its breakthrough work on a universal influenza vaccine. The Multimeric-001 vaccine is designed to provide multi-season …

Actor James Van Der Beek, most famous for his title role as Dawson Leery on the popular television show “Dawson’s Creek,” decided to go for a Jewish wedding ‘all the way,’ and married Kimberly Brook, his girlfriend and previous business …

Israeli company Wilocity, which develops 60 GHz multi-gigabit wireless chipsets for the mobile computing, consumer electronics and peripheral markets, is to collaborate with Atheros Communications to develop the next generation of wireless communications solutions. The companies plan to build tri-band …

National Geographic Magazine ranked Tel Aviv ninth on its list of “Top 10 Beach Cities,” describing it as “the Miami Beach of the Mediterranean.” The magazine that has been “inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888,” writes: “Call …

IBM Corporation acquired Israeli data storage company Storwize for $140 million at the end of July, in a sale that reflects an average three-fold return on investment. Almost $40 million was invested in Storwize, mostly by private investors, but also …

With an American USAID-MERC grant of $659,410 Israelis and Palestinians are coming together to address clean water issues in the West Bank area of Nablus over a five-year period. Ben Gurion University (BGU) researcher Dr. Moshe Herzberg and Prof. Mohammed …

To determine just who are the happiest people in the world, researchers at the Gallup World Poll surveyed thousands of respondents in 155 countries between 2005 and 2009 and found that “by and large, rich countries are happier.”According to their …

The world’s first bed designed to work with Apple’s iPad, the iConTM Bed, has been designed for the Hollandia Collection for Therapedic brand. It’s the first design to emerge since the Israeli and American companies formed their alliance for the …