Can-Fite’s new Drug Fights Diabetes-Related Erectile Dysfunction
Israel’s Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd., a biotechnology company which develops proprietary small molecule drugs for treating cancer and inflammatory diseases, reported it has received positive data regarding More...
Hebrew University Teams with Australian PhytoTech on medical cannabis patch
The Hebrew University tech transfer company will collaborate on a novel delivery system. Hebrew University of Jerusalem technology transfer company Yissum Research Development Co. Ltd. has signed an exclusive More...
Expanding Orthopedics’ FLXfit Used for the First Time in Surgery
Israel’s Expanding Orthopedics Inc., a privately held medical device company focused on developing and commercializing innovative expandable devices for spine surgery, announced that the first US surgery More...
Harvard Researchers: Weight Training Appears key to Controlling Belly Fat
Healthy men who did twenty minutes of daily weight training had less of an increase in age-related abdominal fat compared with men who spent the same amount of time doing aerobic activities, according to a More...
Burger King’s CEO Daniel Schwartz Whopper Tax Break
– There were many complaints about Burger King’s CEO Daniel Schwartz‘s decision to merge with Canadian doughnut concern Tim Hortons in what was seen as a tax inversion scheme. It seems More...
Israeli Bio Med Firm Mapi Pharma Makes Headway In MS Medication
Israeli biomed firm Mapi Pharma Ltd., which is a development stage pharmaceutical company, announced that the first patient was treated in the company’s Phase IIa study of a new drug for the treatment More...
When you lose weight, where does the fat go?
– Sydney: Despite a worldwide obsession with diets and fitness regimes, many health professionals cannot correctly answer the question of where body fat goes when people lose weight, a UNSW More...
Montmorency tart cherry juice accelerated recovery after intense cycling
– Cyclists who are preparing for race day may have a new sports drink to give them an edge in recovery: tart cherry juice. A new study published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism found More...
Scarlett Johansson Tells Barbara Walters What It Is Like Being a Sex Symbol
Scarlett Johansson was named one of Barbara Walters’ ten most fascinating people of 2014 on the journalist’s ABC special last night. The movie star sat down for an interview with Walters as part of the special More...
Study: Energy Drinks Cause Insomnia, Nervousness, in Athletes
A study analysing the positive and negative effects of energy drinks on athletes has seen that, although in principle their sports performance was seen to improve by between 3% and 7%, there was also an More...