Healthy aging: Stressing about stress
When we look at the factors that have an impact on healthy aging, one of the most important issues is the level of stress in our lives.
Q-&-A: Dr. Yakir Kaufman on preventing dementia
Dr. Yakir Kaufman is the director of neurology services at Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem and the founder of the Brain Health Center.
Understanding pain and how to deal with it
Most people do not know that 100 per cent of pain comes from the brain, and not from injured body parts themselves. It is important to get a better understanding of why we feel pain.
Doctors hope to bring Israelis, Palestinians together through health care
Project Rozana is working to foster peace and provide the Palestinian people with better health care.
Short film explores mental health issues and violence
Lead actor, and write Al Bernstein dives into the arena of mental illness in his short film.
B’nai Brith teams up with MADA for Passover Food Drive
Jewish families living at or below the poverty line in Montreal will be treated to a holiday food basket this Passover as B’nai Brith Canada prepares for its annual Holiday Food Drive.
Canadian Magen David Adom celebrates 40th anniversary
The gala was held at the Old Montreal home of Cirque Eloize, the former Dalhousie railway station built in 1884, and attended by about 250 guests
Israeli prostate therapy shows promising results
A minimally invasive treatment for prostrate cancer partly developed in Montreal, shows a high cure rate in the early stages, with little to no side effects
Circumcision: reverence and ambivalence
When it comes to brit milah, a lot of Jews have mixed feelings, but that’s not stopping the vast majority from going through with the ritual
Medical aid in dying is ‘madness,’ JGH doctor says
Jewish General Hospital physician Michael Bouhadana took a difinitive position on assisted dying when he spoke Sept. 19 at a national conference on aging
