Illness

Flu or a common cold? Here are 3 signs that will help you tell them apart

Everyone around you is sick and sniffling, but to know whether it’s a common cold or the flu – there’s a fairly simple way to check. Here are the 3 main signs.

Flu or a common cold?
CAR-T causes less collateral damage to healthy cells than standard chemo.

How does CAR-T cancer treatment work? - explainer

Magen David Adom ambulance outside The Green-Wagner ER

Israel faces early, severe flu season as Health Ministry urges mass vaccination

Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) hold pictures of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and former President Ziaur Rahman while joining in a rally, days after the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 7, 2024.

Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia in critical condition as son’s return uncertain


What a nightmare! How a pedicure led to a woman's leg getting amputated

How did one small infection lead to the amputation of an entire limb?

 A woman's feet after a pedicure (Illustrative)

Myasthenia gravis 101: Your guide to a complex medical condition

This medical condition, which occurs primarily in young women and older men, causes severe muscle weakness.

Illustrative photo of two elderly people staring at a beach.

2,700-year-old toilet reveal: First Temple Jews had gut parasites

Researchers analyzing the content of the toilet could identify traces of eggs from four different types of parasites: roundworm, tapeworm, whipworm and pinworm.

 The rare stone toilet is 2700 years old. Most likely used by one of the dignitaries of Jerusalem.

Canceling plans: I never want to get sick ever again

If I do eventually contract COVID, hopefully we will have treatments to keep people from getting severely ill or dying.

 An infrared thermometer, used to detect if someone has a fever

Can our brain make our body sick? Likely yes, Israeli research shows

Technion scientists uncovered how neurons can trigger physiological responses in the body that translate in real illnesses but might also help treat them.

 Insular neurons (in red) that were captured during colitis and reactivated (in green) upon recovery. Lower panel: Colon sections showing white blood cells (in red) present in the tissue of a mouse after insular neurons reactivation (Gq, right) and its non-activated control.

CMT: The most common rare disease that you probably haven’t heard of

October is CMT Awareness Month. Up to one in 2,500 people suffer from the neuropathic illness.

 Intermediate magnification micrograph of a vasculitic neuropathy, also neuropathy due to a vasculitis.

Pediatrician's parable: Meet Israel’s first doctor with cerebral palsy

Living with cerebral palsy is not easy. Becoming a doctor with cerebral palsy is thought to be a miracle.

 DR. HODAYA OLIEL at her Technion graduation – ‘exciting and emotional.’

Israeli startup offers India smart hygiene devices to prevent childhood illness

The stations were placed in remote rural areas that suffer from high childhood mortality rates due to intestinal diseases that spread mainly due to unclean hands.

A flood-affected girl eats her food inside a school, which has been converted into a temporary relief camp, in Kochi in the southern state of Kerala, India, August 20, 2018.

What are the most dangerous diseases you've never heard of?

10 facts about the most dangerous diseases you've never heard of

A medical worker wearing a protective mask and glasses, who treats patients suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen in an intensive care unit at the Oglio Po hospital in Cremona, Italy

What children taught me about healing together despite our differences

Friends and neighbors have stopped talking to one another over their diverging opinions on political issues, vaccines and masks.

Birya forest