Heart
Medical ties linked Israel and Somaliland years before formal recognition
For more than two decades, the Israeli NGO Save a Child’s Heart has provided cardiac care to children from Somaliland, bringing patients to Israel for surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.
Daily coffee cuts atrial fibrillation recurrence risk by 39%, JAMA study finds
Digital revolution in medicine at ICI Meeting 2025: Innovation in cardiovascular intervention
New study shows cannabis use doubles risk of death from heart disease
Traffic is bad for your heart's health – study
According to the WHO, untreated hypertension can lead to a myriad of conditions like Angina, heart attacks, heart failure, irregular heartbeat and sudden death.
If you have heartburn, avoid these foods
A nutritionist explains what heartburn is and whether it can be alleviated or prevented with the help of diet - and why shouldn't you go to bed after a meal.
Israeli and Palestinian get to the heart of the matter - opinion
The operation that his Palestinian health service was suggesting would cost Mohammed in the ballpark of NIS 60,000.
Biological defibrillator to treat irregular heartbeat developed by Rambam, Technion
This breakthrough will eventually treat only diseased and not healthy cardiac cells, through a receptor causing a biological process in the heart.
Can fitness trackers do more harm than good for the heart? - study
Some wearable gadgets have the potential to interfere with pacemakers, other implanted cardiac devices.
Perspective on cholesterol numbers: Better predictors of heart disease - opinion
For cholesterol to become harmful, it has to oxidize. So, let’s see what might be better predictors of heart disease.
More people are at risk of heart failure worldwide, researchers say
Two out of 100 Israelis, Europeans, North Americans at risk for dangerous heart failure, according to researchers.
For the first time ever - Shaare Zedek among the few to launch catheterization for heart failure
Patients with moderately severe valvular stenosis who have not been treated so far will be catheterized and will be able to return to full function.
Record high number of organ transplants in Israel in 2022
This year saw an increase in cooperation with foreign countries like Austria, the Czech Republic and the Emirates in the exchange of kidneys.
Grapevine: Hanging downtown
Movers and shakers in Israeli society
