ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Mary-Claire King, Ph.D., American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine and Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, as the 2020 recipient of the annual William Allan Award. The William Allan Award, which carries a $25,000 prize, recognizes substantial and far-reaching scientific contributions to human…
Dr. Stanley Fischer Addresses AFRMC Gala
Dr. Stanley Fischer (Senior Advisor, BlackRock; former Vice Chair US Federal Reserve; former Governor, Bank of Israel) addresses the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center 2019 Annual Gala upon reception of the Yitzhak Rabin Global Financial Leadership Award. Don’t miss Dr. Fischer’s interview with Robert Siegel: American Friends of Rabin Medical Center’s September 23 Global…
New breath test sniffs out Covid-19 in 30 seconds
Breath test from Technion scientist shows promising early results in sniffing out Covid-19 within 30 seconds. Could uncomfortable nasal swabs be swapped for a contactless two-second breathalyzer puff to check for Covid-19 infection? Prof. Hossam Haick thinks so. Haick, a professor of chemical engineering and nanotechnology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, first…
‘I’m Only One Human Being’: Parents Brace for a Go-It-Alone School Year by NYTimes’ Claire Cain Miller
Just one in five families will have any sort of in-person help, a new survey finds, and parents are feeling stressed and stranded. Parents across America are facing the pandemic school year feeling overwhelmed, anxious and abandoned. With few good options for support, the vast majority have resigned themselves to going it alone, a new…
‘I Was a Little Scared’: Inside America’s Reopening Schools by Adam Wren and Dan Levin
INDIANAPOLIS — It was the purple Powerade that convinced her. Kennedy Heim’s first day of high school was last Thursday. By the weekend, her school in central Indiana had already closed its doors, after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus and other employees were required to quarantine. Kennedy’s mother got a call from…
Coronavirus Survivors in Israel Find That Life Is Still Hell Two Months Later
Learning along with the doctors Noam Shuster Eliassi, a 33-year-old comedian from Tel Aviv, is being treated at a special department at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva for former coronavirus patients. She seems to have been infected on the way back from the United States after she spent several months in America and was about…
13 promising Covid treatments emerging from Israel
Scientists across the globe are working on vaccines to prevent Covid-19 infection. (Click here to read about six Israeli vaccine candidates.) But in the meanwhile, and even after initial vaccines are approved, there is an urgent need for effective treatments for the respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Most potential treatments target the life-threatening lung…
America Is Facing 5 Epic Crises All at Once by David Brooks
There are five gigantic changes happening in America right now. The first is that we are losing the fight against Covid-19. Our behavior doesn’t have anything to do with the reality around us. We just got tired so we’re giving up. Second, all Americans, but especially white Americans, are undergoing a rapid education on the…
Israeli Researchers Say COVID-19 Vaccine They Developed Proves Effective in Animal Trial
Israeli researchers from the government-run Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) indicated over the weekend that a vaccine they developed for SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been found to be effective in trials involving hamsters, paving the way for testing with humans. The IIBR, a governmental research center specializing in biology, chemistry and environmental…
Corona means no face touching. Science shows we can’t help it
Throughout this whole corona crisis, we’ve been repeatedly told to avoid touching our faces so as not to transmit or catch the virus. But if you too have been unable to stop putting your hand to your face, it might be because you’re busy getting a sense of yourself. And you’re not alone. A study…
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