It may sound like an old wives’ tale, but Israeli medical researchers have discovered that the age-old stories about boys being more trouble are true — at least when they are in the womb.
Girls as young as 14 who are exposed to chemotherapy for treating breast cancer, Hodgkin\’s disease, and other non-malignant diseases such as lupus, put their reproductive system at risk. The chemotherapy can trigger premature menopause and leave women infertile.
While some of the projects veer off course into areas that are not strictly environmental, the main thrust of EcoOcean, an Israeli nonprofit organization that built and funds a unique seafaring vessel, is to offer its ship, equipped with wet and dry laboratories, to those fighting to improve the marine and coastal environment.
Since its unveiling in Boston, the response to the Beauty Function has been overwhelming: Media, including New Scientist and Forbes, have been eager to report on a computer program that can change the landscape of digital photography.
ity mouse, look out! A researcher on the other side of the globe thinks he can end Los Angeles\’ rodent problem for good — by putting barn owls to work.
Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem says owls operate more safely and effectively than spraying poisons, which contaminate groundwater and are toxic to pets. The key, he says, is supplying the owls, a natural predator, with the right habitat.
Yael Friedman, a 53-year-old single mother, lives in the Israeli village of Arad with her 10 children. But she\’s not a typical single mother by any measure. For one thing, she gave birth to none of those children. Friedman works as a professional mother in a community that matches neglected and abused children — 10 at a time — with a women who is willing to assume the role of mother. This mother-by-choice also has to agree to stay single, to avoid any entanglement that would distract or detract from her task.
For Israeli Shifra Fyne, 83, this week’s journey to Los Angeles will be her first time leaving Israel in 56 years, and her first trip ever on an airplane.
Yehuda Goldstein is making the same trip. He hopes to reconnect with John Gordon, an L.A. resident he met last year in Israel. They think they grew up in the same pre-World War II neighborhood in Budapest.
Rachel Bamberger Chalkovsky doesn\’t need statistics to know about poverty in Israel.
Affectionately known as \”Bambi,\” the retired head midwife of Jerusalem\’s Shaare Zedek Hospital can tell heart-wrenching tales of women who gave birth wearing tattered undergarments and shoes, and young women in their prime who are missing several teeth for lack of dental health care and an adequate diet. From reading the postnatal hemoglobin counts of mothers she knows that 20 percent of the 900 birthing mothers coming to the hospital each month are subsisting on food such as bread and margarine.
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