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Category: Israel: To Your Health

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DNA
March 13, 20150

Research for medical rarities — done with a kickstart

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist This latest research study from Tel Aviv University is pioneering because it’s one of a handful of studies

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Singing
February 5, 20150

Hey Mom, it doesn’t matter if you can’t carry a tune — sing anyway!

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist Most mothers know that singing to their baby can be a special time between mother and child and that they d

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neanderthal
January 5, 20150

Watch who you’re calling a Neanderthal!

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist The next time you question someone’s place on the evolutionary chain by calling that person a Neanderthal,

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cardiac tissue
December 10, 20140

The doctor with the heart of gold

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Each year, many heart disease patients in the U.S. and around the world die waiting for a heart transpl

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Ebola
October 29, 20140

Ebola: Hitting the snooze button on a wakeup call

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now epidemic, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologis

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sleep
October 23, 20140

Could more shuteye mean less cancer?

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist The evidence that our sleep time and quality is a significant factor in our health continues to mount. I

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October 9, 20140

Want to prevent suicide? Try some of that good, old-time religion

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent As Jews worldwide welcome the New Year with prayers to be entered in the “eternal” Book of Life, Israel

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Ebola virus
September 19, 20140

Search for Ebola cure comes from Israel

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist Since 2002, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologist Dr. Leslie Lobel has been traveling to Africa mor

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eyeball
August 28, 20140

Pay attention: A simple discovery tool for ADHD

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa and the Goldschleger Eye Research

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August 6, 20140

When the blood-brain barrier gets breached

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist This is the second of a two-part column on “BRAINS@BGU,” featuring some of the latest brain research from B

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June 19, 20142

Gray and white matters: Mapping autism in the brain

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist As part of his U. S. brain initiative in 2014, President Obama visited Israel and learned about groundbreak

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May 5, 20140

Life’s worst disruptions: An interrupted sleep

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s happened to all of us. Whether we drank too much coffee before bedtime, ate too much rich or sp

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March 24, 20140

More good news on the diabetes front

Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes within the last four years, there’s more good new

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March 6, 20140

Holding back diabetes: The one-point difference

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist It's only a tiny percentage point of difference, but new diabetes research from Tel Aviv University shows that a

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February 3, 20140

New frontiers in food science

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist It's called "microencapsulation" and by the year 2025, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Hunger, an

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January 2, 20140

2014 may be a good time to change your eating habits

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist Now might be the time to pitch the Pop Tarts, toss the Twinkies, and dump the Ding Dongs if you're grabbing the

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December 6, 20130

How Mary Jane can help MS patients

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist When it comes to finding a cure or even understanding why someone develops multiple sclerosis, scientists in Is

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October 29, 20130

Confused by I-522? Look to Israel for guidance

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist If you're baffled by Initiative Measure No. 522, the proposed genetically modified food labeling ballot measure

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October 3, 20130

Oh, the nerve! Giant leaps in repairing body damage

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent Millions who suffer from nerve damage and even paralysis may soon be able to take a heretofore impossible g

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September 10, 20130

Our bodies: Time to tone and atone

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist As the Jewish community enters the New Year and atones for the "not-so-nice" acts of thoughtlessness or unkind

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