Health

Surprise discovery: I had my appendix removed and no one told me - opinion

Just one piece of advice: tell your patients when a body part is removed, even if it is just an appendix.

DOCTORS PREFER to remove the appendix before it bursts.
How to identify if your online shopping has turned into an addictionץ

Before Black Friday: How to identify if your online shopping has turned into an addiction

Traffic moves on a smoggy morning as air pollution spikes in New Delhi, India, November 13, 2026.

Delhi gets title of world's most polluted city as air quality becomes 'hazardous' to health

An elderly woman eating.

Even after age 75: What can a small dietary change do for the body?


UNICEF: Acute child malnutrition on the rise in Yemen as fighting disrupts healthcare access

“We're very concerned about a very visible increase in acute malnutrition among children,” UNICEF’s Country Representative in Yemen, Akhil Iyer told reporters in Geneva via video link from Aden.

Rawya Hassan, a mother of seven, sits with her children outside their hut at the al-Bireen camp for displaced people who fled fighting between the Houthis and forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government in Taiz province, Yemen, September 17, 2026.

Senate panel questions Trump FDA nominee Heidi Overton on vaccines, abortion pill, agency morale

The agency, responsible for regulating and approving all drugs, treatments, and vaccines, has faced concerns that it has become too political.

Heidi Overton, President Trump's nominee to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during a healthcare affordability event in the Oval Office.

Before the next holiday meal, you should know what happens to your body

Our body does not know the holiday calendar. What happens when sleep, eating, and activity times change, and how can you enjoy yourself without completely losing the rhythm?

For us, these are the holidays. For the body, it is a change in schedule.

Prevents cancer and reduces diabetes: Dr. Maya Rosman on the healthiest vegetable there is

We eat it in salad and in cooked dishes, and we cry from it quite a bit, but it turns out that it is worth the effort. All the health benefits of the onion, and a trick to prevent you from crying.

Cutting onion

The largest mistake you are making with a family member with dementia

Arguments about reality, and the use of overly long sentences, are liable to worsen distress. Dr. Nati Blum explains how to change communication with a family member with dementia.

It is important to ask for help and not carry everything alone.

New study ranks: These are the most nutritious foods in the world

A new rating method has ranked the healthiest and worst foods. No less importantly, it showed that not all fruits and vegetables are equally nutritious.

Mediterranean diet

Why did Adam Sandler's new film 'Don't Say Good Luck' bring me to tears? - opinion

In Don’t Say Good Luck, high school sophomore Sophie snags the lead in a musical called Waitress. The music is more 13 than Sondheim, but Sara Bareilles’s tunes are a joy to listen to. 

IS IT time to trade Jakarta for Japan? (Pictured: Kyoto, Japan).

The Ebenezer Scrooge model: Can Yom Kippur really bring repentance and change?

From Dickens’s Ebenezer Scrooge to modern psychology, the journey from remorse to lasting behavioral change reveals why Yom Kippur can be both a reckoning and a starting point.

YOM KIPPUR asks us to confront who we were, who we have become, and who we might yet become.

Could Ozempic make the Yom Kippur fast easier? Here’s what researchers found

In an August Hadassah Magazine article, a 46-year-old New York mother identified as Beth described getting through Yom Kippur services without thinking about food after starting a GLP-1 medication.

 Boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, is seen at a Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. March 29, 2023.

High rate of AI errors in Israeli study

A new study, led by Rambam and Technion, reveals significant gaps in periodontitis diagnosis and treatment planning carried out by various artificial intelligence systems.

Illustration: A doctor uses artificial intelligence technology in their work.