Medicine

Right-wing Knesset candidate alleges Arab takeover of Israeli healthcare, drawing backlash

Zaga claimed that Jewish nurses are afraid to work shifts where they will be alongside only Arab doctors, and that Arab medical students receive preferential treatment.

Israeli doctors perform cardiac catheterizations at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, in Jerusalem, on January 20, 2020.
Is artificial intelligence about to replace doctors?

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A CT scanner at Hadassah Medical Center in Limassol, Cyprus.

Hadassah inaugurates Cyprus medical center, plans hospital near Nicosia

District Court of Jerusalem

Jerusalem court upholds 5-year suspension for gynecologist Guy Rofe over patient exploitation


New tool designed to detect biases hidden in medical AI data sets, identifies flaws in training

"We train models to be the most predictive, but we have zero control over what the model uses to make the prediction," AI-assisted medicine expert Unberath added. 

A conceptual illustration of global data networks, proxy servers and artificial intelligence technologies powering modern web data collection.

A regressive step: Israel's gender segregation law undermines medical education, equality - opinion

Gender segregation has no place in medical training. It risks sidelining women, weakening universities, and damaging the international standing of Israeli medicine.

ELLA HAVIN, medical student: In her Ben-Gurion University class, women comprise roughly 70% of students.

Sally Reidman came to Israel with a massage table - and built a healthcare empire

Born in Pennsylvania in 1949 to Holocaust survivors, Sally grew up with her mother in California and studied psychology at California State University.

Sally Reidman.

Insurance companies pay policyholders to receive medical care at home instead of ERs

Israeli insurance firms encourage home-based medical services through financial incentives, reducing costs while easing hospital stress, officials say.

Hospital treatment.

Swedish doctor alleges antisemitic abuse, claims his contract was ended after he complained

"I felt that it was discrimination. The manager says they will handle the matter themselves. And then I found out that I was no longer allowed to stay. It was very strange," Wirschubskyhe said.

Nurses in the accident and emergency dept of Selly Oak Hospital work during a busy shift on March 16, 2010 in Birmingham, England.

Israeli surgeon disinvited from remote appearance at Lebanese medical conference after complaints

Under Lebanese law, it is illegal for Lebanese individuals to communicate or have contact with Israelis under the 1955 Anti-Israel Boycott Law and the Lebanese Penal Code.

Director of the Rafic (Rafiq) Hariri University Hospital, Firass Abiad, heads a videoconference meeting with medics inside the coronavirus department in the capital Beirut, on July 28, 2020; illustrative

'Together On Our Own': A relationship conundrum with AI - review

The author, Dr. Eliana Megerman, an emergency room physician, writes with graceful ease and guides us into the inner depths of a medical world which we usually see only from the surface.

Eyes In The Heat, 1946, Jackson Pollock, Guggenheim Museum, Venice "It is the rare life indeed where the paint stays in the borders and isn't splattered in every direction."

Can 'being a b****' really prevent autoimmune disease? Viral meme may hold some truth

Despite doctors affirming that suddenly being mean definitely can’t heal illness, the women of the internet have taken the meme and run with it.

A woman consults with her doctor; illustrative.

Innovative saliva test launches in Israel to screen for dozens of hereditary diseases

The once-in-a-lifetime test screens 173 genes linked to hereditary cancers, cardiovascular conditions, metabolic diseases and other serious disorders.

A saliva based genetic test at Mor Institute.

Medical journal retracts paper on Amgen’s Tavneos drug trial after FDA findings

An Amgen spokesperson said it "takes scientific integrity seriously and respects the role of journals in upholding the peer review process."

 Pills on health form