Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Surgery Prompts Examination of Jewish Concept of Soul
By Merissa Nathan Gerson
Surgery is wrong. This was what I convinced myself over a two-year stint of excessive holistic health care. Thanks to an imbalanced reliance on . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
UCLA Med Sciences Leader Steps Down
by Nancy Sokoler Steiner, Contributing Writer
In the 1940s, young Gerald Levey looked with awe at his family physician. Over the years, Dr. Samuel Rosenstein made regular house calls to Levey’s . . .
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Mumps outbreak hits Jewish boys
JTA
An outbreak of mumps in New York and New Jersey has affected more than 1,500 people since June, mostly Jewish boys ages 7-18.
A report issued . . .
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Mumps outbreak strikes Orthodox Jews in N.Y.
JTA
More than 300 people, nearly all Orthodox Jews and Chasidim, have contracted the mumps in an upstate New York . . .
Friday, January 29, 2010
Mining salt's potential
By Orit Arfa
The Dead Sea has some competition — in Encino. Salt Chalet, the first wellness center of its kind on the West Coast, has brought the healing . . .
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Israel’s swine flu death toll reachs 80
JTA
The number of Israelis who have died with swine flu hit . . .
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Jewish groups still angling for health care bill fixes
By Ron Kampeas, JTA
Repair the world? Jewish groups would be happy just to fix health care legislation. . . .
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Eat right and exercise, Conservative rabbis told
JTA
Conservative rabbis are being asked to adopt healthy eating, exercise and lifestyle . . .
Monday, November 30, 2009
Israeli Professor Works to Regenerate Lost Limbs
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt, The Media Line
An Israeli researcher's breakthrough provides a major boost to the regeneration of human tissue. . . .
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Hadassah says mammograms should start at 40
JTA
Hadassah said women should continue to have regular mammograms beginning at age 40, contrary to new federal . . .
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
5 Palestinians, 2 more Israelis die from swine flu pushing death toll to 49
JTA
At least five Palestinians in the West Bank have died from swine flu as the Israeli death toll from the virus hit . . .
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Israeli swine flu deaths reach 45
JTA
Two more Israelis have died of swine flu, bringing the total of deaths from the virus in Israel to . . .
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Israeli Americans blast ‘unjust’ U.S. health care reform bill
HAARETZ.com
The organization representing North Americans in Israel has called on its members to fight a U.S. health care bill that would require U.S. citizens . . .
Monday, November 9, 2009
Health care bill passes in the House, moves on to Senate
CNN.com
President Obama on Sunday praised the "historic" House vote to pass a bill overhauling the nation's ailing health care system, and said now it is . . .
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Three More Israeli Deaths From H1N1
JTA
Three more Israelis died from the swine flu, as the country’s health system began its inoculation campaign against the . . .
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Study: Holocaust survivors at higher risk for cancer
JTA
Jewish Holocaust survivors are at a higher risk for cancer, a study . . .
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Lieberman says he’ll filibuster public option vote
CNN.com
Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Tuesday he would join a Republican filibuster to block the final vote on any health care bill that has a . . .
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
White House Won’t Hit Lieberman Hard For Health Care Opposition
HuffingtonPost.com
The Obama administration said on Wednesday that they "disagree" with the substance of Sen. Joseph Lieberman's critique of a public option for . . .
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Lifting the Fog of Chemo Brain
by Jessica Ogilvie, Contributing Writer
When Idelle Davidson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, the furthest thing from her mind was safeguarding her memory. Radiation and . . .
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Doctor Turns Cancer Victory Into Oncology Career
By Judy Gruen
At the beginning of his senior year in high school, Amir Steinberg attended Yom Kippur services with his family in Houston and listened to what has . . .
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Kids Kicking Cancer Comes to L.A.
by Jacob Silverman, Contributing Writer
In a Santa Monica karate dojo, Adam takes aim at an orange-and-red foam pad that his teacher, sensei Bruce, has dressed up with electrical tape to . . .
Friday, September 4, 2009
Jews Should Oppose Universal Health Care
David Klinghoffer, BeliefNet.com
In the always lively Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, Rabbi Elliot Dorff writes in a cover essay that "support for universal health care is an . . .
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Israel’s swine flu death toll hits 21
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A 26-year-old man with no other medical conditions is the 21st Israeli victim of the swine flu. . . .
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Why We Must Support Universal Health Care
by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff
Whether or not we are believers in the Obama plan, or any of the particular plans for universal health care currently winding their way through . . .
