Health

Ideas

Women’s health is an election issue

Women face inequality when it comes to diagnoses, clinical studies and access to free and low-cost preventive services, writes the president of Hadassah.

Ideas

How synagogues and day schools are failing people with disabilities

Jewish institutions lack the will, and the funding, to open their doors to everyone, writes the CEO of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Rabbi Rachel Cowan, pioneer in the Jewish healing movement, dies at 77

1 dead, 17 sick from salmonella in Empire Kosher chicken

Israel bans popular Juul e-cigarette

Circumcising babies increases risk of cot death, contested new study suggests

Norwegian hospitals refuse to assist in circumcisions

Israeli bill allows surrogacy for single women, denies it to same-sex couples

Brett Kavanaugh nomination sets up battles over abortion, health care and religion

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