An Israeli breakthrough in the world of medicine could change the way cancer is treated. Researchers at the Hebrew University succeeded in developing tiny 'drug carriers' that can travel through the bloodstream to the cancerous tumor and release the drug locally, without further harming the patient or spreading the medicine randomly throughout the body.
Unfortunately in Israel, due to the challenges faced each day protecting the country from terror attacks, too many women become widowed in the early stages of their lives, sometimes before they had time to conceive, give birth, experience motherhood or build a family. The mental upheaval is treated in a long rehabilitation process, which sometimes lasts for years, and does not necessarily take into account the woman's age and fertility.
In the Israeli world of medicine and all around the globe, in recent years there has been a growing understanding that the physiological differences between males and females impact the effectiveness of drugs and treatments along with the risk of contracting a certain disease and its behavior. Innovative research now allows sex-matched medicine to advance to the next level. Researchers at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem succeeded in creating male cells and female cells from the same person, with the same genes.
Aryeh Deri, the new Minister of Health in Israel is entering his new office during a rather challenging time and has taken the bold move of requiring Chinese nationals to prove they are not infected with the coronavirus before they leave China.
Just a month after the Chinese citizens' protest against the communist government in the Asian country, the strict COVID policies were canceled and the mass testing efforts to prevent the outbreak of the virus were stopped. As an immediate result of the communist change in policy, reports received from China point to the overwhelming of hospitals due to the overload of patients infected with the virus.
The basic guidelines of Israel's 37th government, include a series of commitments on environmental and climate issues. Among them, are the improvement of the climate law passed by the previous government, the development of Haifa Bay, and setting a date for the removal of polluting industries from its shores.
