Health

End of procrastination: Today ( Thursday ) the health committee approved for first reading the bill that would oblige each health fund to digitally transfer the medical file of an insured person – who moved from them to another fund. The law will also require the transfer of such information to a hospital or medical […]

Dr. Ruth Westheimer , the elderly sexologist nicknamed "Doctor Ruth" who became the most well-known sex consultant in the world, died last Friday at her home in Manhattan at the age of 96. She left behind her son, Yoel, her daughter Miriam and four grandchildren. There is no disagreement in the Democratic Party: "Biden's end

Israel's first gay chief medical officer: Tomorrow, Brigadier General Dr. Zivan Aviad Bar , an openly gay specialist in internal medicine who served in many senior positions as a medical officer, will take up his post. Aviad-Bar, 44, is married to Erez and has two children. He completed his medical studies at Tel Aviv University

Israel's population is getting older, and the lengthening life expectancy will not find us all in a similar situation in our old age. As the share of the elderly in the population increases, so does the share of the nursing elderly. In the tension between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance, whose

The MedEx event took place for the first time on South American soil, as part of a national plan for the health system led by the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, the Ministry of Health and the Nefesh Benefesh organization, in cooperation with the Jewish Agency. The event was attended by dozens of doctors from

Get to know "Amit Rufa": from August, a new profession was launched in Israel whose graduates will meet you not only in the emergency rooms but also in the wards and health insurance companies, will examine you, present the case to the doctors, and perform a variety of referrals and medical operations with the aim

Half of Israelis sleep less than seven hours a day in the middle of the week, according to the data of the social survey on the quality of sleep of the Central Bureau of Statistics published today (Wednesday). It can also be learned from the data that the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas and the

Half of Israelis sleep less than seven hours a day in the middle of the week, according to the data of the social survey on the quality of sleep of the Central Bureau of Statistics published today (Wednesday). It can also be learned from the data that the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas and the

A breakthrough gave a man his voice back: Mayo Clinic researchers were able to perform a vocal cord transplant on a man who suffered from a cancerous tumor and was mute. Four months after the groundbreaking transplant, the patient is recovering and he is back to speaking with the original accent that accompanied him for

Half of Israelis sleep less than seven hours a day in the middle of the week, according to the data of the social survey on the quality of sleep of the Central Bureau of Statistics published today (Wednesday). It can also be learned from the data that the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas and the