Health News

A groundbreaking study has shown that it is possible to rejuvenate damaged kidneys and improve their function, a procedure that could reverse chronic kidney...

(VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE)  Amichai and Shira Ish-Ran, the couple who were shot in the terror attack at Ofra junction last week and subsequently lost...

A Charedi resident of London, was airlifted to the hospital in Scotland on Wednesday after he fell more than 40 feet off of Kincraig...

In recent days, Women of the Wall (WoW) has been working to raise funds to finance security guards to accompany them in their monthly...

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump a golden chance to cement conservative control of the high court. The...

Ephraim Feldman who serves as the Chapter Head of United Hatzalah in Bnei Brak spent his flight back from Eilat on Motzei Shabbos treating...

Scientists from Tel Aviv University have successfully tested the world’s first ever major medical breakthrough of 3D-printed hearts from human patients’ cells.  The success of...

10:14PM IL Motzei Shabbos: Security forces near the Ma’aras HaMachpelah in Hebron checked a suspicious Arab male and found he was concealing a knife,...

Due to a high-level terror threat in some 34 countries, the National Security Council of Israel issued travel warnings for 28 countries in addition...

The Norwegian government’s child welfare adviser said Jews and Muslims would stop circumcising children if they learn more about the risks and pain that...

Health Ministry officials are conducting tests on the Similac Top 3 baby formula after receiving reports that three children became ill after feeding, vomiting...

Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta announced plans April 3 to begin carrying doses of epinephrine on all FDNY ambulances as an additional precautionary lifesaving tool....

According to Israeli Maccabi Kupat Cholim (HMO) pediatrician Dr. Shlomi Antebi, one in five Israeli children are taking Ritalin or Concerta for attention disorders...

As everyone knows, there's no cure for the common cold. So most people simply suffer through two or more colds a year, often missing...

Susan (not her real name), a seven-year-old girl with severe Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), was about to enter first grade. Her parents were...

Maimonides Medical Center's heart is in top rate shape - and jumping for joy after being voted one of the best three hospitals for...

The NYC Department of Health is warning parents to be on alert for raccoon roundworm, after a Brooklyn infant and a teenager contracted the disease....

University of Haifa researchers find a functional link between the brain region responsible for taste memory and the area responsible for encoding the time...

Celiac disease is a disorder in which eating certain types of protein called gluten will set off an autoimmune response that causes damage to...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first artificial retina, an implanted device that replicates some of the function of the retina,...

The clock is ticking on trans fat in the Big Apple. The nation's most stringent trans fat ban goes into full effect in New York...

Parents often ask me whether spanking is really so bad. After all, they were spanked as kids and they turned out fine. Plus, it's...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medical scan that can help diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children by measuring brain...

Cereals heavily marketed to kids have been found to be the least nutritional, accordng to Yale University study. Lucky Charms and Trix are just...

To my loyal YWN readers, Although this space is normally used for my weekly columns on health, fitness, and weight loss, I will allow myself...

The following is a BBC report: The brains of children with attention-deficit disorders respond to on-the-spot rewards in the same way as they do...

It’s that time of the year again, the holiday season. Perhaps nothing is more challenging than getting through from Rosh Hashanah to Simchat Torah with...

An Israeli scientist, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, has found a link between cell phone usage and the development of tumors.  Dr. Sadetzki, a physician, epidemiologist and...

Mayor Bloomberg is waging a war on salt and he wants food manufacturers and restaurants to join his army.....or else. It's ironic that the war...

McNeil Consumer Healthcare on Friday recalled more than 40 of its liquid cold and allergy products for children because some of the medications may...

The New York State Senate passed legislation last week that would make more lower-income families eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing...

The new electronic cigarettes have been banned in Israel by health officials after the American FDA reported they contain chemicals that are carcinogens. Health Ministry...

Israel's Health Ministry has issued an alert to anyone who was on an El Al flight #002 (New York to Tel Aviv) on Monday - and has...

Yeshivaworld has previously reported (HERE) about a measles outbreak in Yerushalayim & in the Frum communities in London. Today, Arutz 7 ran a story which quoted Israel's Health Minister Ya'akov...

Johnson and Johnson will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital to develop and market a blood test that could find a single cancer cell circulating...