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Jeff Tohl endured testing, five months of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant during the three years that followed his cancer diagnosis — a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. With a clean bill of health and regained strength, he thought he was out of the woods. But when his white blood cell count dropped again in November 2009, Tohl, . . .
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Surgery Prompts Examination of Jewish Concept of Soul

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 . . .

Gerald LeveyTuesday, March 16, 2010
UCLA Med Sciences Leader Steps Down

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

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.

More than 300 people, nearly all Orthodox Jews and Chasidim, have contracted the mumps in an upstate New York . . .

Photo by Yaniv SardalFriday, January 29, 2010
Mining salt's potential

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

The number of Israelis who have died with swine flu hit . . .

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, seen here at the Center for American Progress Action Fund on March 27, 2009, led the effort to pass health care reform legislation. (Center for American Progress Action Fund)Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Jewish groups still angling for health care bill fixes

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

Conservative rabbis are being asked to adopt healthy eating, exercise and lifestyle . . .

Monday, November 30, 2009
Israeli Professor Works to Regenerate Lost Limbs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jewish Holocaust survivors are at a higher risk for cancer, a study . . .

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Lieberman says he’ll filibuster public option vote

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

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

When Idelle Davidson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, the furthest thing from her mind was safeguarding her memory. Radiation and . . .

Amir Steinberg. Photo by Dan KacvinskiTuesday, October 6, 2009
Doctor Turns Cancer Victory Into Oncology Career

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 . . .

Bruce Rush instructs Adam Pomerantz at Dawn Barnes’ Karate Kids in Santa Monica. Photo by Dan KacvinskiTuesday, October 6, 2009
Kids Kicking Cancer Comes to L.A.

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

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

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

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 . . .

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