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Research suggests coronavirus spread in Italy as early as September 2019
Italian studies find 4 people had COVID-19 antibodies months before virus was first detected in Wuhan, China
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Israeli duo’s early Alzheimer’s detection test brings cure one step closer
Toronto-based biomedical engineers Eliav Shaked and Roy Kirshon are working on a quick, non-invasive retinal diagnostic for patients decades away from showing symptoms of dementia
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On land and sea, US presidential-honored scientist works toward home virus test
Serial start-upper Jonathan Rothberg aims to turn tide of pandemic with a coronavirus testing kit he devised while isolating with vulnerable family members aboard his superyacht
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For world’s 1 billion migraine sufferers, COVID a major headache, new film shows
Now streaming, documentary 'Out of My Head' on debilitating neurological disease coincides with worsening of condition for many during past year's pandemic lockdowns
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Immune system ‘remembers’ to fight off coronavirus for at least 6 months: study
Research by UN and Switzerland shows that even though the level of antibodies fade, body maintains sufficient memory B cells, and they manage to stave off reinfection
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Wonder drug that works? Monoclonal antibodies ‘cured’ my grandparents from COVID
US government health bodies warn there's not nearly enough data to prove efficacy, but doctors report no deaths among thousands of high-risk patients prescribed the new treatment
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New Israeli drug cured 29 of 30 moderate/serious COVID cases in days — hospital
Medicine developed at Ichilov moderates immune response, helps prevent deadly cytokine storm, researchers say; 29 of 30 phase 1 trial patients left hospital within 3-5 days
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How a Nobel-winning ‘accidental scientist’ changed the world by saving himself
Robert Lefkowitz documents his career, culminating in a discovery used in 50% of FDA approved drugs in new memoir, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm,' out this month
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Israeli study probes a key factor in diagnosing Parkinson’s early: Constipation
Hebrew University researchers identify brain mechanism potentially behind early symptom of degenerative disease, which could enable early, more effective treatment
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Some ‘Long COVID’ patients say vaccine helped alleviate symptoms
Social media users say lingering symptoms subsided after they got the shot; Israeli taskforce earlier this week recorded similar findings
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Junk food may harm skeletal development in the young, study finds
New research by Hebrew University shows ultra-processed foods, which make up 70% of children’s caloric consumption, impair bone quality in young rodents
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New gene therapy trial in US offers hope for children with Canavan disease
4-year-old Benny Landsman is first to receive experimental procedure for condition that causes blindness, paralysis, seizures, and average life expectancy of under a decade
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Did Maimonides ignite the cannabis craze? Book probes roles of Jews in medicine
A new book chronicles the remedies prescribed by the first Jewish doctors and their Levantine counterparts all the way through to today's cutting-edge innovations
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Israeli ‘antibacterial weapon’ arms good germs to kill bad germs
Helpful bacteria fire ‘poisoned arrows’ at infection-causing microbes in Tel Aviv University lab; they 'permeate a neighboring cell by brute force and release toxins into it’
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Israel’s first ‘space medicine’ university course gets underway in Jerusalem
Professor Sara Eyal, clinical pharmacist who studies effects of microgravity on human biology, leads first-of-its-kind lecture series
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