What to Do for Migraine in Teens? Symptoms & Treatments

Migraines are a common yet often misunderstood condition that affects people of all ages, including teenagers. For teens, migraines can be especially challenging, interfering with school, extracurricular activities, and social life, all while being chronically underdiagnosed or written off as just a “headache” or “being dramatic” to get out of school for the day. But, unlike […]

Israel Will Fight Monkeypox by Learning From its Success in Battling COVID-19

On 23 July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of monkeypox to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), with more than 16,000 reported cases of monkeypox in 75 countries and territories. Today, Israel is facing the same threat as the rest of the world with the sudden outbreak of […]

World Breastfeeding Week

Last week was World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), it is held every year at the beginning of August as an annual celebration to promote breastfeeding for newborns for at least the first six months of their lives. The evidence is that this yields many health benefits, provides critical nutrition, and protects them from diseases such as […]

Understanding Antidepressants and Erectile Dysfunction

Feeling depressed, unhappy or miserable is something almost everyone experiences occasionally. However, suppose it becomes a chronic, repetitive and debilitating condition that is interfering with a person’s daily life to the extent that they can’t function properly. In that case, doctors will start treating it differently, as clinical depression. You can read some more about […]

Menopause is not a Disease

Most women don’t look forward to menopause, and it’s easy to see why. When women pass beyond their age of fertility into menopause, the alterations in body chemistry can produce profound and sometimes uncomfortable changes in their bodies and even their brains. Around 80% of women experience unpleasant symptoms during this time, like hot flashes, […]

Shelf life of vitamins – when do they expire?

In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) doesn’t specify that vitamins and food supplements sold across the counter must display an expiry date on the container.  A manufacturer may voluntarily choose to provide some expiry information. Still, in order to do this, it has to present supporting proof to the FDA, including stability […]

The Best Time to Take Prozac

A short introduction to Prozac Prozac is one of the most frequently prescribed medications in the United States, coming in at #4 on the list of antidepressant medications, which are themselves the most frequently prescribed of all meds. Nearly twelve million scripts for Prozac were written in 2021, and it looks like its numbers and […]

IsraelPharm’s newest chemotherapy drugs – 85% Discounted Price!

We are happy to announce that we have been able to add a wide range of advanced drugs that are specially designed to treat various forms of cancers. These chemotherapies can now be purchased from IsraelPharm at far lower prices than the standard cost in US pharmacies – at an average discount of nearly 85%. […]

Coming Soon – a vaccine medication targeting AIDS, some cancers and infections

A new study shows that people with AIDS might soon be able to be treated with just a single vaccine dose, which potentially acts as a unique new AIDS/HIV treatment. The early findings are coming from researchers at the Tel Aviv University (School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine) in […]

How to tell the difference between a headache and a migraine attack

An aching head is something that many people will experience occasionally. There are no clear boundaries that can distinguish between a transient headache that has minimal clinical importance, and that will clear up without radical treatment in a reasonable timeframe and a migraine attack that may be totally debilitating, and may be repetitive and worsening […]