The National Institutes of Health longstanding “payline” has helped everyone see the connection between the scientific peer review process and NIH grant funding decisions. What will the latest NIH announcement mean to this? (Photo by MICHAEL…
Category: 5. Health
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How to deal with the gifted identification exam
How to deal with the gifted identification exam | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Health & Wellness/ParentingHundreds of 7-year-olds will soon take the gifted test, but only a few will get in—leaving many disappointed. Why does this happen,…
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What is Yom HaPlitim? Why is November 30 Jewish Refugee Day?
Yom HaPlitim, meaning “Day of the Refugees,” is the Israeli national day honoring the 850,000+ Jewish refugees who were expelled from or forced to flee Arab and Muslim majority countries and Iran from the 1940s to the 1970s. In Israeli…
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Study links weight loss to neuroinflammation
Study links weight loss to neuroinflammation | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Health & Wellness“Our findings show that losing weight in midlife is not a simple copy-and-paste of what works in young adulthood,” Alon Zemer said.Weight…
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Israel debuts RNS pacemaker for seizures
Israel debuts RNS pacemaker for seizures | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Health & Wellness“If it weren’t for the pacemaker implantation, we would have had to remove the area in the brain responsible for the seizures, with all the medical…
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What Is A “Professional Degree” And Why Does It Matter?
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 01: Bronx VA Medical Center nurses hold a demonstration and join other nationwide ‘May Day’ actions demanding increased COVID-19 protections for nurses and health care workers on May 01, 2020 in New York City. According to…
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Canada just lost its measles elimination status. Is the U.S. next?
Measles is making a comeback in the Americas.
The United States may soon have to return its gold medal status of measles elimination, a ranking bestowed by the World Health Organization that signals the virus is under control and…
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What the 1945 JNF map reveals about the Israel partition plan
There is a common narrative that shows up in classrooms, on social media, and in graphic “partition maps” that Jews illegally moved into Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine as outsiders, seized land they didn’t own, kicked the…
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Three Low-Cost Methods To Improve Cognitive Function And Longevity
It is too easy to focus on bad news and stressful events, especially in the era of “always on” social media. As an antidote, I would like to highlight three recent studies offering good suggestions on ways to improve one’s cognitive health,…
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The Small Kingdom Setting A Big Example On HIV Prevention
Global Fund Executive Director Peter Sands inspects boxes with lenacapavir during a visit to Eswatini’s Central Medical Stores.
The Global Fund/Brian Otieno
When I walked into Eswatini’s Central Medical Stores that morning, the first thing I…
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