Israel's High Court Overturns Health Ministry's Medical Cannabis Price Reform

Reform was supposed to lay groundwork for competition and let cost be determined by the free market, but jacked up prices for patients

New Report Shows Significant Discrepancy in Life Expectancy Between Israeli Cities

Arabs can expect to live shorter lives than Jews, irrespective of the specific geographic area in which they live, findings show

Philip Morris Offers Israeli Medical Students Grants for Attending Lectures

Documents seen by TheMarker detail U.S. tobacco giant’s plans to turn future physicians into a kind of PR agent for the company

Hadassah's Contentious CEO to Continue to Steer Hospitals for Another Term

Problematic decisions and difficult style of management notwithstanding, Prof. Zeev Rotstein to manage Jerusalem hospitals for three more years. 'I didn't come to find favor in anyone's eyes,' he asserts

Israeli Doctors Freeze Eggs of 7-year-old Girl at Risk for Infertility

Physicians from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv used a technique never before employed on a child so young, due to the threat to her fertility from Turner syndrome

Editorial Even the Labor Union Doesn’t Care

In Breakthrough, Israeli Researchers Feed CO2 to Bacteria to Curb Greenhouse Gasses

Weizmann Institute scientists wean bacteria off of sugar, possibly leading the way to producing 'green fuel'

Ships Docking in Just Two Israeli Ports Pollute the Air Like a Large Power Plant

Survey shows emission of hazardous gasses is much greater than previously thought

U.S. Federal Prosecutors Launch Criminal Probe of Opioid Makers, Report Says

Shares of Israel's Teva, other drug companies drop after grand-jury subpoenas from the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York

In Israel’s Biggest Medical-cannabis Deal, Cannbit Buys Tikun Olam

$41.5 million sale comes after Tikun Olam failed to get permission to grow cannabis commercially

Cases of Whooping Cough in Israel Have Risen 150% This Year

Increase in disease, which can be fatal and is passed on by coughing and sneezing, reflects global trend for the disease. Biggest rise is among infants and children from 5 to 14

Israeli Hospital Goes on Offensive: Electric Scooters Maim Riders, Pedestrians

In online campaign, Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital looking to curb worrying trend of dozens of injuries a month in scooter accidents

Israel’s First 'Vaping Disease' Victim in Critical Condition

The lung disease, which has spread in recent months in the U.S., is attributed to the use of electronic cigarettes

The 18-year-old Israeli Who Turned Her Pout, and a Brain Injury, Into Big Business

Aline Cohen’s face is plastered across billboards, her cosmetics range sells in Israel’s biggest drugstore chains, and her mom and dad call her ‘Boss.’ Oh, and she’s achieved all of this at the age of 18 after overcoming a life-threatening injury

N.Y. Regulator Notifies Opioid Makers of Enforcement Action

The New York State Department of Financial Services has sent letters to around 23 opioid manufacturers and distributors

Use of Addictive Painkillers in Israel Doubled in Five Years, OECD Report Says

Israel’s rise in opioid prescription drugs usage during this period was the highest of all the 36 OECD nations

Israeli Laborer Killed in 80th Fatal Work Accident This Year

72-year-old was hit by a bulldozer in a factory yard in Haifa

Opinion How to Save Israel

Israel's Weizmann Institute Finds Women Can Smell Without Organ Once Thought Essential

Prof. Sobel, in whose lab the new study was carried out, says he and his colleagues were surprised to find a female subject without olfactory bulbs

Homeless Man Dies in Israeli Jail After Refusing Treatment for Tuberculosis

Patient held temporarily in prison, with court-ordered plan to transfer him to hospital delayed for technical reasons

Tel Aviv Court Orders Mother to Vaccinate Her Two Children

Father pressed action, saying mother refused to vaccinate kids out of ‘messianic’ ideology

Stop Futile Treatment, Even if Patient’s Relatives Insist, Israeli Doctors Say

'Futile treatment infringes on the patient’s right to put his affairs in order while he is still capable of doing so,' Israel Medical Association says in a paper addressing the treatment of terminal patients

How a Child Watches Movies Can Help Detect Autism, Israeli Scientist Claims

Children on the spectrum evince idiosyncratic, uneven gaze patterns compared with non-ASD children, says Ben-Gurion University’s Ilan Dinstein

How We Created Superbugs by Provoking Primordial Superpowers in Bacteria

Antibiotic resistance may have evolved before dinosaurs, let alone before doctors began over-prescribing the drugs. But irresponsible practitioners and filthy food workers are still to blame for the current crisis

'I'm the Lab Rat': The Man Who Survived Three Deadly Cancers Thanks to Groundbreaking Israeli Research

The doctors suggested Tamir Gilat make a farewell trip. But a decade later he is thriving thanks to groundbreaking Israeli researches he now strives to fund

Learning to Get Your Baby to Sleep – for 3000 Shekels

Consulting firms for parents are a booming global industry. When did we lose our parental instincts?

Israelis With Cancer, Especially the Worst Kinds, Show Much-improved Survival Rate

Most significant rise in survival rates was among Jewish men with invasive cancer, data shows

Doctors Against Dairy: Cheese Linked to Breast Cancer Risk

Petition signed by 12,000 American doctors calls on FDA to require warning labels on cheeses

In 36th Incident This Year, Worker Dies After Israeli Construction Site Allegedly Ignored Safety Order

Inspectors suspect contractor ignored a ban on using scaffolding at the site after it was found to have been improperly installed a week prior to the accident