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Close up of female doctor holding syringe with injection (iilustrative)

Treatment by women doctors leads to lower death rates and fewer hospital readmissions, study shows

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Israelis who's family members are held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza protest during a Finance committee meeting, in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 22, 2024.

Israel's mental health crisis is not looming, it's already here

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Many Israeli healthcare professionals who have been treating trauma are themselves traumatized

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

The Weizmann Institute is set to open a medical school in October of 2025.

Weizmann Institute to open medical school amid doctor shortage

By DR. ITAY GAL

Jessica Newman, Jerusalem-based acupuncturist.

Jessica Newman: Jerusalem's acupuncturist who gets the point

Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, and Rudolf Hoss - all perpetrators of Nazi health experiments

Leading American medical journal faces down its own history of endorsing Nazi race science

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

Ben Gurion University campus in the southern city of Beer Sheva on May 28, 2023.

Difficulties of doing daily physiotherapy at home can be overcome

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

French doctors visit the booths at the Paris Medex conference.

Hundreds of French doctors attend first medical aliyah expo in Europe

By MICHAEL STARR

Helmsley Medical Simulation Center team at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University

TAU Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences receives $12.67 million grant from Helmsley Trust

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Herzog Medical Center director-general Dr. Jacob 'Kobi' Haviv at the geriatric wards

From maternity wards to maturing adults: An in-depth look at Herzog Medical Center

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

The new yeast species, Kazachstania weizmannii (red dots), was discovered in the mouse intestine, viewed here with a fluorescent microscope.

Fungus vs fungus: New yeast may prevent life-threatening fungal infections

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Better 'Jew free': London doctor to be investigated by Health Secretary over antisemitism

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Kiryat Shmona medical center rendering

Beacon of Resilience: Medical Center Rises as Symbol of Hope for Israel’s North

By Tania Shalom Michaelian

Tired pensive military man feeling worry and despair overhead view. Psychological trauma and PTSD treatment at therapy session. Tired pensive military man feeling worry and despair overhead view

Tel Aviv University develops personalized self-treatment to prevent development of PTSD

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A US Navy doctor checks a patient's tonsils during a Pacific Partnership 2010 medical civic action project.

Children who lose their tonsils are not doomed to obesity in adulthood - study

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

An ambulance is seen at the entrance to the emergency room of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan, Israel, July 15, 2023.

Sheba Medical Center named as one of the top ten hospitals in the world, again

By Dr. Itai Gal

Un empleado trabaja con células madre en el laboratorio del doctor Ali Ertuerk en Múnich, Alemania 23 de abril de 2019.

Jewish widow gives $1 billion to NYC medical school to pay for student tuition

By REUTERS

Plain pelvic radiographs demonstrating three button batteries within the penile urethra.

Australian man has surgery to remove batteries from his urethra, left with disfigured penis

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF