Health

The heavy rains that have been falling for more than a day across the country bring great blessing and tens of millimeters have fallen mainly in the north of the country. With this there are many glitches and accidents. A 27-year-old man was found unconscious on Thursday afternoon after drifting in a stream in the Wadi Selma area near Carmiel. MDA paramedics and paramedics perform CPR operations there. Rescue teams were called to the scene immediately when MDA Call Center 101 was reported missing. At the same time, searches for a 14-year-old boy who went missing in the Yarqa area continue...

The Quds Force commander of the Revolutionary Guards and the chief of Iranian Middle East operations Thursday night was eliminated in a US attack at Baghdad airport. Three Katyushas were fired at a military base near the airport tonight, reports from the scene and TV show in Iraq show that 7 people were killed in the bombing, including General Qassem Suleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Mohands militia commander and Hezbollah man in Iraq Muhammad Qawwarani. The Pentagon: "Suleimani Has Eliminated Trump's Instruction." Iran's spiritual leader Ali Khamenei ordered three days of mourning following the...

Shiba Hospital, which handles thousands of people every day, now allows its patients to contact the customer service center through the popular WhatsApp instant messaging software as part of its extensive digital transformation process, and based on Elad Systems' SimpleChat implementation. The hospital allows outpatient clinics to communicate with the various centers through the WhatsApp. Customer Service Callers can contact and correspond with a human or auto service representative (ChatBOT) and avoid having to wait for the representative, fax documents, ask questions or make appointments...

A 71-year-old Binyamina resident was killed on Sunday evening after being swept away by his vehicle in a flood on the river street in the colony. He was located about two hours later, and the MDA team determined his death. The firefighters who arrived at the scene rescued the vehicle with the help of tractors, where they found the man breathless. Police said the circumstances of the vehicle's fall into Nahal Tse'asah, a channel of Nahal Taninim passing through the town, are being investigated . MDA paramedic Natalie Bennett said: "Extinguishing forces have been working for a long time with...

An AI-based patient safety solution developed by Israeli medical tech startup MedAware identified over 10,000 potential medical errors and adverse drug events, with an accuracy rate of over 90 percent, according to a new study co-authored by Harvard researchers. The study, published last month by the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, analyzed MedAware's machine learning-enabled clinical decision support platform, designed to prevent medication-related errors, at the outpatient clinics of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. The system flagged...

Hundreds of thousands of citizens accepted the drug basket committee's decision, and while for some it was joyous news - many others were disappointed. The 750 medical labels in which dozens of treatments, technologies and medicines were rejected by the committee with a heavy heart compared to the introduction of 141 labels. The choice was taken into account in the limited budget - NIS 500 million - through which they had to choose from the best treatments for as many citizens as possible. This is similar in scope to previous years - but less than they wanted in the basket committee and...

A winter week began tonight and Tuesday there is even a chance of snow in the mountains of the center and the northern Golan Heights - but the residents of Jerusalem will probably not be tempted by whites. The current rain system has so far mainly affected the south, and in Ashkelon they have dropped 26 mm by Saturday evening. The rains will spread and fall from the north to the northern Negev, accompanied by thunderstorms. Expected to be open tomorrow, tens of millimeters of rain have rained in the Central and Tel Aviv areas so far, no real damage has been reported, but they are expected...

An intern doctor in one of the internal wards of Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva put an end to his life, probably after a long period of crisis that the hospital was aware of. The circumstances of the incident are unclear at this time. Apparently, from the beginning of the crisis experienced by the young doctor, the department manager and the intern accompanied him by many factors that were aware of the situation. This is the fourth case of a doctor's suicide in the same medical institution in about a year and a half. In July 2018, Director of Surgery Plastic Surgery Department, Dr. Alex...

The reports of Israeli public companies holding significant activity in China indicate that there is currently no significant impact on business. However, the expected harm is mainly in the tourism sector of Chinese who will not come to Israel. It is estimated that about 24,000 tourists from China will be canceled in the next two months. Most of them spend an average of seven nights per night. This is a loss of close to 170,000 overnight stays in February and march

25% of fathers say they do not exercise their parenting rights because of the corporate culture that does not allow them, according to a survey conducted by the Division for Gender Equality at the Civil Service Commission, on the occasion of Family Day held on Wednesday. Many fathers have stated that they fear the response in the ministry if they start taking advantage of the parenting rights they are entitled to. "I feel that fully utilizing parenting rights will prevent me from performing my job well and therefore choose to take advantage of only some of the rights," says a father who...