Dan Even

Tel Aviv hospital quarantines woman infected with NDM-1 bacterium, resistant to antibiotics and the cause of deaths worldwide.

Nearly 200 pedophilic films and images were found on personal computer of Haifa pediatrician suspected of being part of international child-pornography distribution ring, according to an indictment filed at Haifa Magistrate's Court.

Israeli Human Rights Organization of People With Disabilities chair: The cost of bread, water, electricity and fuel have gone up drastically in recent years, and our benefits have not gone up for nearly a decade

Safed doctors identify differences in severity between men and women.

Health officials struck back after Haaretz reported that Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine had swapped the body parts of crash victims and buried their remains in supermarket bags.

The judge in the case said there was no basis for claim that the alleged acts were based on authority to act for the good of the patients.

Abu Kabir also buried the remains in supermarket plastic bags and opened a grave despite request of family not to do so.

Recipients of 40-year-old woman's lungs, kidneys and liver under close medical supervision after early stage pancreatic cancer discovered.

Social advocacy groups call on the government to draft a long-term plan to combat the growing gaps in poverty rates between Israel and Europe.

Social welfare NGOs are lobbying the Health Ministry to lower the co-payments charged by the state health maintenance organizations.

The project has trained 105 physicians from Ethiopia over the past five years; now expanding to six other countries.

The plan was initiated following a Haaretz expose in August on inadequate conditions at the facilities and on pressure from local authorities and developers to limit the hospitals' growth.

Only 20 percent of overweight children and 50 percent of obese children are being identified by doctors, nurses and parents.

Doctors in Eilat say deaths are unrelated.

Overall quality of water in country high, Health Ministry report finds

Robert Edwards served with British forces in mandate Palestine, where five comrades were executed by the Jewish Etzel group.

Tests show the level of fluoride is not enough to prevent tooth decay; meanwhile, excessively high levels of fluoride were found in drinking water in Ashdod and Kadima.

Among Arab women under 50, the incidence of breast cancer rose from 16.49 cases per 100,000 women to 21.49 in 2007. Can it be that Israel's investment in educating women about the importance of early detection has passed the Arab population by?

Survival rates a year after initial cancer diagnosis among girls under 14 has risen from 89.9 percent in the early 1990s to 93.3 percent in 2005 to 2007.

High incidence of breast cancer in Israel attributed to 'Jewish gene' mutation common among Ashkenazi Jews.

However, according to Health Ministry report, recovery rates among children also on the rise.

But the study, which will be published this month, does not suggest a link between the area's pollution and other forms of cancer.