Blood

'Heroic actions': Magen David Adom mourns first responders who served, were murdered on Oct. 7

MDA marked the third anniversary of October 7 by honoring 20 murdered personnel, recalling more than 21,600 emergency calls, and detailing its expanded emergency response capabilities.

View of Magen David Adom's Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramle, central Israel, August 17, 2026.
Garlic

Nature's antibiotic or bleeding hazard: What garlic lovers must know

A blood test

Blood test found to detect lung cancer with nearly 93% accuracy for average cost of $60 - study

One of  the cleaner parts of Noa Kirel’s new ‘Love Song.’

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Magen David Adom's new shielded facility is bloody amazing!

The new center aims to double the country’s annual blood-processing capacity that could potentially save tens of thousands of lives every year.

 The Marcus National Blood Services Center

New shielded MDA Blood Services Center 1st of its kind worldwide

The six-story Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramle was specifically designed to withstand missile attacks and biological and chemical weapons.

 Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramle.

Israel and UAE collaborate to provide rapid blood tests

The HemoScreen presents accurate information from a single prick of blood from the finger within five minutes, and is able to detect certain types of cancer.

 Dubai panorama from tall building

What makes Type O blood the most common?

Although there seems to be no apparent evolutionary advantage for one blood group over another, their distribution is markedly uneven. How did one blood group become more prevalent than others?

Test tubes, taken by a health care worker, with plasma and blood samples after a separation process in a centrifuge during a coronavirus vaccination study at the Research Centers of America, in Hollywood, Florida, US, September 24, 2020.

Digital AI blood test developer Scopio Labs raises $50 million

Scopio’s technology utilizes Deep Learning AI technology and high-definition digital scans of blood samples in order to accurately analyze blood tests more efficiently.

 Red blood cell.

WHO advises against blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients

Several studies testing convalescent blood plasma have shown no apparent benefit for treating COVID-19 patients who are severely ill.

Plasma bags are pictured at the Interregional Transfusion CRS in Bern

Four fall health challenges and how to deal with them

Why do our noses sometimes bleed when the weather outside is dry?

A woman blowing her nose into a tissue, possibly after sneeze or while sick

Why is COVID causing vascular damage? Israeli study offers answers

TAU researchers identify 5 of the 29 proteins in virus that attack blood vessels.

COVID-19 is seen in a blood vessel (Illustrative).

Religious-Zionist rabbis ban students from donating blood due to form options

A number of religious-Zionist yeshivas have banned their students from donating blood due to a form that reads 'parent 1 and parent 2'

The IDF holds a blood drive in light of the coronavirus crisis

Technion researchers cure mice of diabetes in novel trial

New research investigates the use of an autograft of muscle cells engineered to take in sugar at increased rates in mice with type 2 diabetes. 

 The implanted construct: the engineered muscle fibers (in red) express the GLUT4 (in green)