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After building a fintech giant, Alon Gonen turned his own body into an experiment

Plus500 co-founder Alon Gonen eats two meals a day, grows his own plantains, gave up his office chair and even invested in a farm to control where his meat comes from, after a health scare pushed him to overhaul his lifestyle overnight

Eitan Gefen | 09.12.26

Beer against kidney stones? Turns out many patients still believe the myth

Half of patients believe beer prevents kidney stones, while even more trust parsley; a new Israeli study finds myths persist even among repeat sufferers, some potentially harmful; Dr. Dor Golomb explains what really helps prevent recurrence

Eitan Gefen | 09.08.26

Dementia doesn’t always begin with memory loss: early warning signs to watch for

Forgetting a familiar name may be normal, but repeated questions, medication confusion or personality changes can signal dementia; experts explain the line between aging and disease, rising diagnoses in people in their 50s and 60s and new tests and drugs

Eitan Gefen | 09.04.26

Are you washing your hair wrong? The everyday mistakes that can leave it dry and brittle

How often you wash, the shampoo you choose, water temperature and even how you dry your hair can affect breakage and scalp health; dermatologist Dr. Alex Ginzburg also explains why shower shedding is often normal and shares a simple shine-boosting trick

Eitan Gefen | 08.28.26

'I wasn't vaccinated until 23': The girl raised to distrust science who became an immunologist

Dr. Elisabeth 'Liz' Marnik grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home that distrusted vaccines, medicine and scientists; now an immunologist, she says facts alone rarely change minds — a lesson shaped by her own journey from fear to science

Eitan Gefen | 08.28.26

FDA approves breakthrough drug for metastatic pancreatic cancer: 'A real revolution'

After decades of efforts to block the tumor-driving RAS protein, the FDA approved daraxonrasib after unprecedented survival gains in metastatic pancreatic cancer; treatment costs about NIS 90,000 a month, raising access concerns

Eitan Gefen | 08.27.26

Yoga, Pilates or the gym: Which workout can actually improve your posture?

Slumped shoulders, a rounded back and a backward-tilting pelvis have become hallmarks of modern life; but not every posture issue is a medical problem, and not every workout can fix it; what can be changed, and how should it be done?

Eitan Gefen | 08.26.26

Are you drinking too much water? The myths and facts behind hydration

How much water do you really need, is three liters a day a rule worth following and what can urine color reveal? The answers are less simple than they seem

Eitan Gefen | 08.21.26

Her doctor's AI scribe put psychedelic mushrooms in her medical record — she’d never taken them

Patient discovered a fabricated drug-use claim in a medical letter after consenting to AI transcription; experts warn similar tools can omit, alter or make up details, while Israeli health systems are already testing them

Eitan Gefen | 08.18.26

Think your BMI is healthy? Your waist may say otherwise

Study of nearly 260,000 people finds that excess abdominal fat raised cardiovascular risk even at normal or overweight BMI; Sheba cardiologist Dr. Anat Berkovich says where fat is stored may matter as much as how much there is

Eitan Gefen | 08.15.26

AI designed a virus, scientists brought it to life

Stanford and Arc researchers used AI to design bacteriophage genomes, producing 16 working viruses that attacked E. coli, a potential step toward fighting antibiotic resistance that also raises urgent questions about biological safety and oversight

Eitan Gefen | 08.15.26

More than weight or heart rate: the fitness metric linked to longevity

VO₂ max has become a key fitness and longevity metric; what does it measure, how is it calculated, why does it matter for health and lifespan, and how can even beginners improve it?

Eitan Gefen | 08.14.26

מרי אלן לוקזיץ' ובנה, ג'וזף לאדטקה היידר שנולד מזרעו של הרופא

‘I feel like I was raped’: woman says fertility doctor secretly used his own sperm

Mary Ellen Lukaszewicz says she agreed to artificial insemination using sperm from an anonymous young medical student in 1982; more than four decades later, her son’s home DNA test uncovered nine half-siblings and allegedly traced his biological father to her own doctor

Eitan Gefen | 08.13.26

‘He told me peptides were safe’: Alex's quest to get bigger became a warning for young men

Australian bodybuilder Alex Boutin began using steroids as a teen and later turned to unapproved injectable peptides; after he died from myocarditis at 33, his sister is warning of a booming online market and the body-image pressures behind his years of use

Eitan Gefen | 08.12.26

Diagnosed with cancer, underwent hysterectomy, then learned the biopsy was not hers

Cassandra Barksdale says a tissue sample mix-up led doctors to diagnose aggressive uterine cancer and remove her uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes and ovaries; months later, DNA testing showed the cancerous tissue belonged to another patient

Eitan Gefen | 08.10.26

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