Crohn's and jewish ancestry

Living in limbo land: Navigating health scares, medical uncertainty - opinion

Life in limbo contradicts our Western “hurry up” culture, where waiting is greeted more with impatience than equanimity. 

|ByBRIAN BLUM
Elderly woman reacts to devastating medical test results during consultation (illustration)
RESEARCHER DAN PEER: ‘We discovered that altering the proportions of lipids comprising the nanoparticles determines their destination in the bloodstream.’

TAU makes breakthrough in drug delivery to treat inflammatory bowel disease

To present the pioneering concept, Peer and his team encoded the anti-inflammatory protein interleukin-10 into mRNA and delivered it to animal models with Crohn's disease.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
A logo is pictured at the World Health Organization (WHO) building in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2020.

Top 5 biggest threats to our health in 2022

The most well-known part of Passover is the ten plagues. Lice and frogs probably don’t scare you too much, but these days many of us are dealing with one or more common health concerns.

|ByMAOR MOIGER/WALLA!
PROF. RAPHAEL MECHOULAM

Father of cannabis research plans a new revolution nearly 60 years later

"The more we checked, the more we saw that we have a new potential alternative to probably two of the most horrible diseases you can find today."

|ByIDAN ZONSHINE

Cannabis linked to decreased pain in colitis patients - study

Those who haven't responded positively to accepted treatments have long been turning to medical cannabis for symptomatic relief.

MARCH 9, 2021ByIDAN ZONSHINE
A worker touches a cannabis plant at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed

Is it all in my head?

If you were to have told me a year and a half ago that my chronic stomach pain was all in my head, I would have picked up the nearest stick and shown you what “all in your head” really feels like.

JUNE 21, 2019ByBRIAN BLUM
This combination of predisposition and precipitation generates real pain. But it’s the third P – ‘perpetuation’ – that causes the real damage