Health

The Teva plant in Netanya will be closed by the end of next year, and about two hundred and forty workers will be fired. This was the decision of the Company's management. The laid-off employees are part of the 1,700 employees the company decided to lay off at the end of last year. The Nature Plant of Netanya produces the active part of various drugs, and is considered less profitable. Shaul Amsterdsky writes that this production activity is expected to be pressured into Israel Billionaire Warren Buffett is investing in the Israeli drug manufacturer Teva. Buffett's investment company,...

Ten teenage boys and girls were killed in the flood disaster in Tsafit river in the southern part of Israel' the Negev. The boys and girls, members of a pre-army preparatory program from central Israel and high school students, were part of a group of 25 travelers. 15 were rescued safely, including a boy and girl of about eighteen who were lightly injured. The two suffer from hypothermia. Air Force choppers and IAF personnel participated in the dark hours in search of the missing and used thermal means for night vision. Late at night the body of the girl was discovered at the age of 17....

all employees of the health professions in Israel, including physiotherapists, dietitians, speech therapists, occupational therapists, hygienists, genetic counselors and art and art therapists will return to work. It will affect 5,000 workers in hospitals and in the community, employed by the Ministry of Health, Clalit Health Services, Meuhedet Health Fund, Hadassah Hospital, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, mental health centers and other institutions. It was decided at the end of a hearing in the Tel Aviv District Labor Court.

all employees of the health professions in Israel, including physiotherapists, dietitians, speech therapists, occupational therapists, hygienists, genetic counselors and art and art therapists will return to work. It will affect 5,000 workers in hospitals and in the community, employed by the Ministry of Health, Clalit Health Services, Meuhedet Health Fund, Hadassah Hospital, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, mental health centers and other institutions. It was decided at the end of a hearing in the Tel Aviv District Labor Court.

Very good air quality was recorded on Yom Kippur in most monitoring stations of the national air monitoring system, which is supervised by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. With the advent of the holiday, concentrations of nitrogen oxides - a marker of air pollution from vehicles - drastically decreased in the transportation stations in Haifa, Gush Dan and Jerusalem. The concentrations of nitrogen oxides on Yom Kippur in the transportation stations in the large cities were between 1.0 and 12.0 parts per billion

The Ministry of Environmental Protection published the Environmental Pollution Emission Report on Tuesday, which is published every year and is the sixth year of its publication. The firm published the trends in emissions of pollutants into the air, water sources and the sea and land. In the coming days, the rating of the polluting plants will be perceived. The report published today shows a positive general picture of pollutant emissions in 2017 compared with the previous year

8 people were killed in a serious road accident on Route 90 in a clash between two vehicles. The eighgt, 6 children and 2 adults were trapped among the remains of the burning vehicle, and firefighters who arrived at the scene began rescue operations

the Annual International Congress for Innovation in Cardiology opened for the 23rd time. At the opening event, focused on innovation in medical equipment and digital health, Mr. Elliot Meschik from Amazon and Mr. David Ben Schimol from Google, took part in intriguing lectures that exposed future medicine, as managed by the giants – Google and Amazon. A number of other companies presented various fields of breakthroughs in the world of digital health. During the upcoming days of the conference, senior executives of Medtronic International, will take part, after landing in Israel to attend...