Untangling autism
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
March 7, 2016
There’s a popular saying in the autism community: If you’ve seen one person with autism, you’ve seen one person with autism.
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Health
Accepting the end
Jewish Journal
March 7, 2016
The hospice patient, an innovative leader in his profession, was in his last moments of life.
Research seeks alzheimer’s diagnosis with blood test
Jewish Journal
March 2, 2016
The progressive dementia Alzheimer’s disease affects some 35 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 115 million by 2050.
New study: Sperm quality damaged by cellphones
Jewish Journal
February 17, 2016
A groundbreaking study carried out in Haifa suggests that regularly talking on a cellphone for more than an hour a day, and talking on the phone when it is connected to a charger, doubles the likelihood of a decrease in sperm concentration from 33.3 percent to 66.7 percent
California, Israel to partner on stem cell research
Gerri Miller
February 17, 2016
Doctors, dignitaries and officials representing Israel and California convened at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Feb. 8 to witness the signing of an agreement between Israel’s Ministry of Science and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to collaborate on stem cell research.
Zika link to birth defects could be proven within weeks
Jewish Journal
February 12, 2016
The suspected link between the Zika virus and two neurological disorders, the birth defect microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome, could be confirmed within weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Why the Zika virus is causing alarm
Jewish Journal
February 2, 2016
Global health officials have said that the Zika virus, which has been linked to severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil, is rapidly spreading in the Americas and could infect 3 million to 4 million people.
Zika virus set to spread across Americas, spurring vaccine hunt
Jewish Journal
January 25, 2016
The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Exploring Jewish Reasons for Ground Burial – An Alphabetic Acrostic
Rabbi Joe Blair
December 2, 2015
Rare numbing disease that plagues Jews has diagnosis, but no cure
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
David Epstein went to his doctor in 1997 to see why he was going to the bathroom so frequently and what was causing his fingers to go numb.
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