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Build muscle and stay young

Researchers have discovered that the skeletal muscle composition of the blind rat is preserved throughout its life, delaying its aging
A stressed cat. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Artificial intelligence will detect when the cat is in pain

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With the help of the model, the process of diagnosing pain can be simplified by taking a look at the cats' faces without making any contact with them, said PhD student Marcelo Feigelstein from the Department of Information Systems at the University of Haifa, one of the authors of the study
artificial intelligence. Illustration: shutterstock

Three clues to the future of medicine

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Cancer cells drift in the bloodstream. Illustration: shutterstock

The first blood plants: this year ten people will receive synthetic blood transfusions

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immune system. Illustration: Hutterstock

An innovative treatment to boost the immune system saved a terminally ill breast cancer patient

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Illustration: pixabay.

Computerized medical diagnosis

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According to Dr. Orit Goldman, artificial intelligence makes it possible to predict elderly people who are expected to deteriorate in order to focus their treatment. Illustration image. Source: US Air Force photo.

Tomorrow's medicine in the era of data mining and Big Data

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Source: Matternet.

Switzerland launches automated delivery service using drones

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Illustration. An overall view of today's technology inevitably leads to the conclusion that artificial intelligence engines will also be able to deal with a large part of human interactions and attribute the correct meaning to them. Source: pixabay.

What will be left for doctors when computers understand emotions?

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Can gene therapy cure heart disease?

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Practicing CPR on a dummy. Photo: Rama / Wikimedia.

An application will help health science students practice in medical simulations

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A unique algorithm allows shortening the discovery time of drugs from years to months

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A health worker in Ethiopia puts a blood sample on a rapid malaria test kit, 2012. Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia.

Ideas that will change the world: cheap diagnostic tools on pieces of paper

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Hidden side effects: Medical studies often omit negative results

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Imaging of a cancer cell. Source: Trail-in Pharma.

A new service for cancer patients will connect them with researchers and current research

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Genomic medicine. Photography: FoundationOne ©2012 Jon Chomitz Photography

Cancer treatment: can a blood test replace an invasive procedure?

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Blood test to change cancer treatment
Reciprocal reactions between drugs and the patients' genes may have a negative effect on the effect of the drugs and even endanger the patients' lives. Genetic testing may prevent this and help find an alternative drug. Illustration: National Human Genome Research Institute.

adjust the medicine that suits you best

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It seems that as a result of several technological trends that will integrate and reinforce each other, hospitals will become less and less relevant for the majority of patients in the coming decades. They will not disappear completely, but most citizens will be able to avoid visiting them, or at least being hospitalized for a long time. Illustration: pixabay.com.

The future of hospitals, medicine - and the health of all of us

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insulin pump. Source: Mbradford / Wikimedia.

The artificial pancreas is here

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The Aedes aegypt mosquito, which is among the transmitters of the Zika virus. Source: James Gathany / PHIL, CDC.

The mosquitoes will save us from... the mosquitoes

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From the right: Prof. Ora Peltiel, director of the School of Public Health at the Hebrew University and senior physician in the hematology department at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital and doctoral students Gefen Kleinstern and Rania Abu Sir (who received their PhDs as part of the research). Source: The Hebrew University.

Is there a difference between Jews and Palestinians in the risk factors of getting cancer?

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Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito - the carrier and spreader of the West Nile virus. Source: CDC/Jim Gathany 2003 / Wikimedia.

IBM, together with the Israeli Melnox and NVIDIA, decoded the genome of the Nile fever mosquito

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Bottles of insulin for injection. Source: Alan Levine.

Research: Insulin resistance is associated with an accelerated decline in cognitive functions

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Winners of the Rapaport Prize for Science: In the photo from right to left: the winner Prof. Michal Schwartz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Verd Drenger, Ruth Rapaport, Prof. Michael Sela and the winner Dr. Gad Asher, Weizmann Institute. Photo: Tomer Poltin

The winners of the Rapaport Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research have been announced

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Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Source: NIAID.

The poisoned arrow of the golden bacterium

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