By Martin M Barillas Improved health among black Americans has narrowed the life expectancy gap between white and black Americans by 50 percent over the last 30 years. Even so, a reversal in both groups’ mortality rates since 2012 remains unresolved. Researchers at Princeton University analyzed data from 1990 to 2018, comparing mortality rates between […]

By Abigail Klein Leichman When Asaf Zviran was diagnosed with cancer, he was doing operations research and R&D in the Israeli navy and earning his master’s degree at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Maybe that’s why he pictured cancer as an enemy to defeat — if he could find the right weapon and target. After […]

By Luciano NagelBrazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro gave the opening speech at the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th session on Sept. 21. His remarks triggered strong criticism back home. Critics said he embarrassed the country before an international audience. Various Brazilian politicians, analysts and environmentalists accused Bolsonaro of distorting Brazil’s domestic reality. They say the president gave misleading […]

By Brian Blum The bacteria wars are coming. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have pitted “good” bacteria against “bad” bacteria and the good guys, it appears, are winning. If the system can be scaled, this new approach could potentially replace antibiotics, which are increasingly struggling against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs.” For the university study, the researchers used […]

By Martin M Barillas Children’s nervous systems mature over two years later than previously believed, according to a new study that found children are at risk of being overwhelmed within virtual reality (VR) environments. Researchers are challenging assumptions about the development of children’s upper-body coordination while studying the effect of VR headsets on children. Little […]

By Joseph Golder The latest import from the Far East can’t be found on a shelf at WalMart. It’s a counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination card, complete with clumsy typos, and the federal government is confiscating them as fast as they can find them. U.S. customs officials in four U.S. cities recently seized shipments of more than […]

By Martin M Barillas The better rated a kidney dialysis center is, the more likely it is to add a patient to the transplant waitlist, according to researchers, though black patients are the least likely to secure a spot on that waitlist. Doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospitals investigated connections between patients, dialysis centers and […]

By Abigail Klein Leichman A year and a half of lockdowns, school closures and social distancing caught adolescents at a vulnerable time in their emotional development, says Dr. Shelly Ben Harush Negari, a physician specializing in adolescent medicine. Many kids have forgotten, or haven’t had a chance to learn, how to conduct themselves outside the […]

By Evan T. Henerson A veces es más fácil dejar que la tecnología hable. Una nueva e innovadora aplicación está ayudando a los adolescentes a comunicarse sobre las dificultades que enfrentan, mediante mensajes de texto. La aplicación para teléfono celular Teen Talk, desarrollada por Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters de Los Ángeles, ofrece a los […]