JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A part of the parking lot in Jerusalem’s Shaarei Tzedek hospital collapsed Monday afternoon, causing a gaping hole to be formed in the ground. A number of cars fell into the hole but no injuries were reported in the incident. The apparent cause of the collapse is a tunnel being excavated under […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A part of the parking lot outside the Shaarei Tzedek hospital collapsed Monday afternoon, causing cars to fall into a huge gaping hole in the ground caused by the collapsing soil around the site. No injuries were reported in the incident but a number of cars were damaged. The cause of the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators on Friday said a new version of a popular diabetes medicine could be sold as a weight-loss drug in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration approved Wegovy, a higher-dose version of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug semaglutide. In company-funded studies, participants taking Wegovy had average weight loss of 15%, about 34 […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A pill has been shown to help keep certain early-stage, hard-to-treat breast cancers at bay after initial treatment in findings being reported early because they are so promising. Study results were released Thursday by the American Society of Clinical Oncology ahead of its annual meeting and published in the New England […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer from an experimental drug that delivers radiation directly to tumor cells. Few such drugs are approved now, but the approach may become a new way to treat patients with other hard-to-reach or inoperable cancers. The study tested an emerging class […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Thursday the U.S. will swiftly donate a first tranche of 25 million doses of surplus vaccine overseas through the U.N.-backed COVAX program, promising infusions for South and Central America, Asia, Africa and others at a time of glaring shortages abroad and more than ample supplies at home. The […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators warned surgeons Thursday to stop implanting a heart pump made by Medtronic due to power failures recently tied to cases of stroke and more than a dozen deaths. Medtronic said earlier in the day it would stop selling its Heartware assist device, which is intended to boost blood circulation […]

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top vaccines expert said Thursday that immunizing children against COVID-19 is not a high priority from a WHO perspective, given the extremely limited global supply of doses. During a social media session, Dr. Kate O’Brien said children should not be a focus of COVID-19 immunization programs even as […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shlomo Shraga, a prominent Jerusalem posek and the son of the rabbi of the French Hill neighborhood, Rabbi Baruch Shraga, has issued a number of rulings regarding the person, Michael Elk, who was recently discovered to be a missionary after posing as Rabbi Michael Cohen and officiating at weddings and even […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new White House science adviser wants to have a vaccine ready to fight the next pandemic in just about 100 days after recognizing a potential viral outbreak. In his first interview after being sworn in Wednesday, Eric Lander painted a rosy near future where a renewed American emphasis on science not […]