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10,000 steps. Is there a different number?

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Boy with donuts.

Early sugar restriction cuts adult diabetes risk by 35%, study finds

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Medical workers in protective suits treat patients suffering with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Rome, Italy

New travel warning issued following Marburg outbreak

Suspects for the Elad ax terrorist attack, 20-year-old Tzabahi Abu Shakir (Left) and 19 year-old Assad al-Rafai (Right).

Sentence of Elad axe terrorists postponed due to scabies outbreak in prison

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People walk in front of India Gate on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, December 18, 2023.

Pollution can shorten life expectancy by two years

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A baby seen at a family health center ("Tipat chalav") on March 5, 2019.

Israeli baby diagnosed with meningitis, Health Ministry confirms

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A UNHCR doctor discusses admission records and daily figures with a nurse in a hospital inside a refugee camp in Kassala State.

Sudan's cholera crisis compounded by conflict, crowded camps

By VERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE

A BROWN DOG tick on a pencil.

Bacteria crucial for tick reproduction offers new disease control strategies

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

In Africa's monkeypox outbreak, sickness and death go undetected

Why is mpox an emergency again, and how worried should I be?

By REUTERS

The farms host a range of horticultural projects including vegetable and medicinal gardens, fruit and nut orchards, and ecological landscaping.

Israel halts fruit, vegetable imports from Jordan in fresh cholera scare

Pediatric intensive care. The vaccines reduced hospitalizations and morbidity

Vaccines prevent 500 million diseases, 1 million deaths, new report finds

By DR. ITAY GAL

A petri dish is seen following an embryo transfer surgery at the Beijing Perfect Family Hospital, in Beijing, China April 6, 2023

The problems with preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Jewish law

By SHLOMO M. BRODY

Macro close up of a yellow fever mosquito sucking blood on skin.

Effective strategies for eradicating West Nile Virus in Israel and beyond

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A plague doctor and his typical apparel during the 17th Century Outbreak.

Black Plague killed farmers thousands of years before 14th-century Europe

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

women using phone in toilet room in the morning

Outbreak of campylobacter diarrhea bacterium: Hundreds of Israelis infected

By DR. ITAY GAL

Characteristics associated with a case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a rare brain infection due to Naegleria fowleri parasites, a brain-eating amoeba.

Israeli man hospitalized after being infected by rare brain-eating amoeba

By AVICHAY CHAIM

An illustration of a radiologist analyzing a head CT scan

FDA approves 'donanemab' treatment for Alzheimer's disease

By DR. ITAY GAL

Elongated skulls at the Inca museum

Evidence of smallpox in 16th century Peru uncovered in Incan children's skeletal remains

By RIKKI ZAGELBAUM