Dan Even

Changes in the new edition of the American Psychiatric Association's classification manual of mental disorders to lead to increased diagnoses of learning disabilities in Israel.

Ministry threatens back-to-work orders while nurses association say it might order its members to abandon their wards completely.

The ministry's tender committee gave the contract to GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix vaccine because GSK's price was 10 percent lower than the bid submitted by MSD, maker of the rival vaccine Gardasil.

In order to understand how other people feel, researchers say, we unconsciously interpret body language.

According to the Finance Ministry, the nurses' union signed an agreement in March not to strike until the beginning of 2013, but the nurses say the treasury broke an agreement when it postponed talks due to begin three months ago.

The strike, which began on Monday, has already led to the postponement of most non-urgent operations in hospitals, as well as long lines at hospital outpatient clinics.

Today 50 clinical nurse specialists are qualified to provide palliative care to terminal patients and end-of-life care to patients in home hospice care and hospital oncology wards.

Demand twice as high as in recent years; Maccabi to give shots only to high-risk groups.

Study finds that Jewish heart patients are far more likely to undergo cardiac rehabilitation than Arabs.

Statement comes in response to euthanasia tragedy over weekend; some professionals blame failure to implement Health Ministry directive mandating palliative care units be established in all Israeli hospitals.

The strike has been called in protest at a delay in negotiations over new wage agreements.

The killing of a 33-year-old cancer patient by her father, followed by his suicide, brought euthanasia back to the limelight and stirred a debate about the alternatives to the practice, which is banned by Israeli law.

Research highlights Israeli doctors' ignorance, prejudice toward carriers.

The report shows unusually large number of infections occur following surgery to repair a broken femur neck, one of the more common procedures performed in Israeli hospitals.

Operation Pillar of Defense exacerbates shortage, as neonatal intensive care units in the Barzilai and Soroka medical centers in the south are forced to reduce the number of beds.

Studies released this year reveal that patients who were administered with dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease have developed creative talents such as drawing, sculpting, and poetry.

The field has moved from the laboratories, where gene therapies have been developed, to clinical settings where they can help diagnose and treat diseases - if the treating physician knows how.

Gag order placed on investigation into attack; massive traffic jams around Tel Aviv due to police checkpoints; explosion occurred just after noon, at corner of Shaul Hamelekh and Henrietta Szold streets; one casualty seriously wounded, one lightly-to moderately, and the rest sustain light injuries.

Scientists seek to understand how our mind does simple sums even when we can't understand the problems.

So how do we know that the bench didn't eat the zebra? And why can our unconscious do simple sums, when we can't even understand the problems?

New Family Organization makes available a 'biological will' - a legal document that allows a man's sperm or a woman's eggs to be used after their death.

The study is based on a questionnaire given to 7th and 8th graders in 2007-8, who'd been through thousands of rocket attacks from Gaza.

Israelis are more unwilling to donate their heart, brain and sexual organs than other body parts, says report.

Facing poor results on patient satisfaction survey and looming OECD deadline, Health Ministry allocates NIS 2.4m to training doctors to be nicer.

Stem cell technology used to turn the skin cells into brain cells was based in part on the discovery by this year's Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine.