Science, Medicine, & Education

Tel Aviv U pioneers new test for ADHD

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed — and misdiagnosed — behavioral disorder in children in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unfortunately, there are currently no reliable physiological markers to diagnose ADHD. Doctors generally diagnose the disorder by recording a medical and social […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Lucky for Herman, Jews disagree if he’s kosher

-Twentieth in a Series- By Donald H. Harrison CASCADE LOCKS, Oregon – Herman the Sturgeon is by far the biggest attraction at the Bonneville Fish Hatchery here. Approximately 70 years old, Herman is 10 feet long and weighs 450 pounds.  He is midsize for his species, with some sturgeons having been known to grow to

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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA

UC teaching assistants vow Israel boycott

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Following a scathing antisemitic statement released by the Union of Student Workers promoting the boycott of Israel and exclaiming the need to “educate” others on the “settler-colonial” and “apartheid” nature of the Jewish state, eleven groups, today, urged University of California President Napolitano to intervene and ensure that hate-filled

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Whey consumption may reduce sugar surges

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Blood sugar surges — after-meal glucose “spikes” — can be life threatening for the 29 million Americans with diabetes. Diabetic blood sugar spikes have been linked to cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, kidney failure, and retinal damage. Now a new Tel Aviv University study, published in Diabetologia, suggests a novel way

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Personality profiles predict opponent’s next move

By Anav Silverman BEER-SHEVA, Israel (TNA)– The ability to understand the minds of political leaders is an important aspect of strategic intelligence. In this context, personality profiling is a common practice that has traditionally relied on the expertise and intuition of human psychologists, according to researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). However,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Shusterman donates $1 million for BGU safety

PHILADELPHIA (Press Release)–Attorney and philanthropist Murray H. Shusterman will provide $1 million in urgently needed funding to enhance campus safety at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel against the back drop of round the clock rocket attacks. The new Murray H. Shusterman Gate will protect security staff, students and visitors entering BGU’s

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Anti- starvation strategies may be carried in our DNA

TEL AVIV (Press Release)—During the winter of 1944, the Nazis blocked food supplies to the western Netherlands, creating a period of widespread famine and devastation. The impact of starvation on expectant mothers produced one of the first known epigenetic “experiments” — changes resulting from external rather than genetic influences — which suggested that the body’s

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Campus thugs threaten Jewish students

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org Amid the current unrest in Israel and Gaza, Jews around the world have been targeted for attack. Virulently anti-Israel demonstrations and activities in cities across Europe and around the world have resulted in frightening anti-Jewish violence. Meanwhile, in the U.S. right now, school is out and students are safe. But there is little

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Babies in green areas have higher birth weight

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)–Mothers who live near green spaces deliver babies with significantly higher birth weights, according to a new study, “Green Spaces and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes” published in the journal, Occupational and Environmental Medicine. A team of researchers from Israel and Spain, including Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), evaluated nearly 40,000 single live

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Academic lies in the war against Israel

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Jews have been accused of harming and murdering non-Jews since the twelfth century in England, when Jewish convert to Catholicism, Theobald of Cambridge, mendaciously announced that European Jews ritually slaughtered Christian children each year and drank their blood during Passover season. That medieval blood libel, largely abandoned in

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ZOA seeks dismissal of Holocaust denial teachers

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Zionist Organization of America are seeking the dismissal of teachers who created and implemented a classroom assignment in the Rialto (California) Unified School District in which students were invited to debate whether the Holocaust really happened. The organization released the following letter from Morton A. Klein, president,

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