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 Businesswoman sitting on her desk in an office (illustrative).

Sitting, lying down for too long may increase health and heart issues

 CROSS-SECTIONAL T1-weighted MRI of a healthy human brain.

Israel to expand medical device access in periphery to boost healthcare

By Walla!
Highly contagious disease. Child with measles.

WHO warns: Measles outbreak spreading alarmingly

 Protect intellectual property with Biometric security. Converging technology with glowing human brain hologram. Intellectual property protection or Patent idea protection Concept

Controlling blood sugar may slow brain aging

  PROF. JOSEF HAIK at work at Sheba Medical Center’s Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Israeli plastic surgeons scramble to restore faces, functioning limbs to victims of terror, war

 212 million cases in India. Diabetes.

Global diabetes prevalence doubles since 1990, surpassing 800 million adults

 ILLUSTRATION - Map of Europe with warning sign, reflecting the 400% rise in antisemitism

How is the rise of antisemitism impacting Diaspora Jews? Mental health experts discuss

By Shira Dicker/The Media Line
 An Israeli flag flutters near the logo of Teva Tech which is part of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in Neot Hovav, southern Israel December 14, 2017.

Immunai and Teva partner to innovate new cancer, immunology therapies

 Research finds significant dietary and lifestyle differences among alcohol consumers based on their drink preferences.

Who has it better, beer or wine lovers? Researchers have a decisive answer

 Experts recommend limiting time on the toilet to no more than 5 to 10 minutes.

Experts advise: Make sitting on the toilet as boring as possible

 10,000 steps. Is there a different number?

How many steps a day are needed to lower mortality? It’s not 10,000

 Drinking more since the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID made Americans drink more. They haven’t stopped since

 DESTRUCTION CAUSED by Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Be’eri, near the Israel-Gaza border, on October 7 last year: ‘As with every Israeli, I had people around me affected by the massacre. My sister-in-law’s family was slaughtered in Kibbutz Be’eri,’ the writer mourns.

How Western Negev residents cope with trauma after October 7

 REICHMAN NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDING

New medical school at Reichman University to open in February

 Bread, diet, illustration

Israel’s youth face growing eating disorder crisis, with limited care

 Linked to cognitive development. Early-onset asthma.

Asthma in children linked to memory difficulties, study suggests

Israeli Doctor Itzhak Brook

Israeli doctor Itzhak Brook honored with distinguished service award at cancer symposium

 ELMA AVRAHAM was nearly 85 when she was taken hostage by Hamas from her home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

Hamas treatment of older hostages 'one of most severe examples of elder abuse’

 Exercise.

Adding five extra minutes of exercise daily can lower blood pressure, study finds

 An illustrative image of lung cancer.

TAU researchers take on battle vs immunotherapy-resistant tumors

 Medical and psychological staff undergo hypnosis training course at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.

Hypnosis for healing: Galilee Medical Center launches hypnosis training course for staff

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