Alternative health
From ice baths to yoga classes: Everything to expect at Israel's largest wellness festival
Three movement areas, 50 health booths, and a free alternative therapy zone: Wellfest returns for its fifth year at Kfar Maccabiah. The event will take place on May 29-30.
Do ice baths really improve health? New medical review reveals surprising findings
Do ice baths improve health? New medical review reveals surprising findings
Red labels on salty, sweet and fatty food not required during emergency
Health Scan: Complimentary things to say about complementary medicine
The results of the study show that, in general, patients who received the combination of complementary medicine and standard care showed a reduction of 60% in their anxiety level.
Finding biological data sets to stifle bacterial growth
Rx For Readers: Is walking backwards good for you?
Readers get answers to their health questions.
Hospital officials: More funds needed for healthier food
Food service heads say state subsidies cover wrong products, ignore special items such as gluten-free baked goods.
Health Scan: TENS for free
Pain experts also suggest that the electrical stimulation of the nerves can help the body produce natural painkillers called endorphins by blocking the perception of pain.
Feeling down or stressed? Try a ‘simha’!
When people are dancing together, the simha is a powerful distraction and remedy for the worries that participants may feel.
Music in the key of life
Shai Brenner is a Tel Aviv jazz saxophonist who devotes several hours a week to lightening the emotional load of sufferers from serious ailments of various ages.
NIS 2 million fund to help housebound sick children
The youngsters are thus able to maintain as much of their daily and educational routine as possible while absent from school.
Doctors threaten labor action
Medical professionals protest changes in bill, health budget.
With the higher standard of living, Israelis have to choose if they want junk food and immobility or a nutritious diet and regular exercise
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich interviews two experts.