Blood

Stop crying over Noa Kirel’s bloody video, it’s time to let her grow up - comment

A highly unusual, explicit “18+” warning label flashes across the screen, cautioning that the video contains graphic violence and blood, but the collective shock is completely overblown.

One of  the cleaner parts of Noa Kirel’s new ‘Love Song.’
Blood donation is one of the simplest actions that can save lives

A doctor explains: What really happens to the body after donating blood?

A saliva based genetic test at Mor Institute.

Innovative saliva test launches in Israel to screen for dozens of hereditary diseases

Nosebleed

Nosebleed: The big mistake you're making that can lead to choking


What makes Type O blood the most common?

Although there seems to be no apparent evolutionary advantage for one blood group over another, their distribution is markedly uneven. How did one blood group become more prevalent than others?

Test tubes, taken by a health care worker, with plasma and blood samples after a separation process in a centrifuge during a coronavirus vaccination study at the Research Centers of America, in Hollywood, Florida, US, September 24, 2020.

Digital AI blood test developer Scopio Labs raises $50 million

Scopio’s technology utilizes Deep Learning AI technology and high-definition digital scans of blood samples in order to accurately analyze blood tests more efficiently.

 Red blood cell.

WHO advises against blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients

Several studies testing convalescent blood plasma have shown no apparent benefit for treating COVID-19 patients who are severely ill.

Plasma bags are pictured at the Interregional Transfusion CRS in Bern

Four fall health challenges and how to deal with them

Why do our noses sometimes bleed when the weather outside is dry?

A woman blowing her nose into a tissue, possibly after sneeze or while sick

Why is COVID causing vascular damage? Israeli study offers answers

TAU researchers identify 5 of the 29 proteins in virus that attack blood vessels.

COVID-19 is seen in a blood vessel (Illustrative).

Religious-Zionist rabbis ban students from donating blood due to form options

A number of religious-Zionist yeshivas have banned their students from donating blood due to a form that reads 'parent 1 and parent 2'

The IDF holds a blood drive in light of the coronavirus crisis

Technion researchers cure mice of diabetes in novel trial

New research investigates the use of an autograft of muscle cells engineered to take in sugar at increased rates in mice with type 2 diabetes. 

 The implanted construct: the engineered muscle fibers (in red) express the GLUT4 (in green)

Horowitz donates blood after Israel repeals ban on gay blood donation

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, a gay man, donated blood at the Magen David Adom compound in Jerusalem after the ban was repealed.

 Israel's Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz is seen giving blood at the Magen David Adom compound in Jerusalem, on October 25, 2021.

Do you try not to sneeze? Disturbing reasons why you must stop

Doctors are asking the public to stop this dangerous habit as it can cause permanent damage to the nose, ears, lungs and even the brain.

 Sneezing

MDA shares ‘out-of-the-box’ COVID blood donation solution 

Magen David Adom has been responsible for all of Israel’s blood supply, including for the IDF, since 1950.

 Magen David Adom presents at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference