Category: 5. Health

An international commission of medical experts proposed a major overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving beyond the traditional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI). The commission’s recommendations, published in the journal The Lancet…

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has begun offering individuals with Jewish ancestry swabs to check for mutations in their BRCA genes, which is associated with an increased risk of cancer, The Independent reported on Thursday.

A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) reveals how bacterial defense mechanisms could be neutralized during genetic material exchange, potentially enabling scientists to solve the crisis of bacteria becoming resistant to…