Israel health basket
Israeli gov't approves 2026 health cm'tee to approve medications, tech with NIS 650 budget
The delay in appointing the committee persisted in recent months due to the lack of a sitting health minister.
Health basket cuts are crippling families - opinion
Medical hotline to assist patients and professionals reopens in Israel
Health fund psychologists, private therapists to get government grants
Israel-based organization offers prize for ALS research
To help advance research on devastating neurodegenerative disease Prize4Life-Israel offers prize to discover why some die quickly from Lou Gehrig’s disease and others survive for decades.
Public generally satisfied with its health coverage
Ministry issues report to mark 20 years since National Health Insurance Law
State Comptroller unveils scathing report on the Health Ministry
One can’t help but wonder how the population’s life expectancy continues to rise despite the ministry's serious deficiencies.
![Man lying in a hospital bed at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem [illustrative].](https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_194,w_290/261409 "Man lying in a hospital bed at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem [illustrative].")
IMA tries to raise health, state spending as election issue
The campaign includes signs of an elderly person demanding to know why she has to wait so long for surgery and a child with cancer asking why his medicine is not included in the health basket.
Assaf Harofeh acquires world's largest high-pressure oxygen chamber
The chamber treats many ailments.
Civil rights, doctors’ organizations, politicians blame government for ‘erosion’ of health system
“If we wait to improve for another two or five years, we will no longer get compliments, because the situation will decline,” he said.
Shas calls for emergency Knesset parley on hospital overcrowding
Meretz protesters say government funding must go to "the sick and not the settlements"; hospital occupancy rate actually lower than in previous winters.
Phase 2a clinical trial of BrainStorm stem cell product shows ‘clinical benefit’
Nearly all patients who underwent clinical trial showed benefit.
![Petri dish [Illustrative]](https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_194,w_290/262175 "Petri dish [Illustrative]")
Sharp rise in additional, private health insurance costs
The cost of health insurance, both private and public, hits 2% mark of household income for the first time; health minister hopes government will take action to restrict it.
Updated list of carcinogens released by Health Ministry
The new list includes exposure to electromagnetic radiation as a possible cause of cancer.