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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

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Illustrative: A newborn baby in an Israeli hospital. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
November 12, 2023, 1:22 pm
Shepherding life into the world following catastrophe brings hope to Israeli midwives
Beersheba-based midwives and doctors talk of helping women give birth following Hamas’s murderous invasion on October 7 — regardless of race, nationality and religion
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A mother holds a baby, with a bottle of breast milk at foreground. (Pilin_Petunyia/iStock by Getty images)
October 10, 2023, 10:12 pm
Health Ministry issues directives for national breast milk bank during war
Priority will be given to babies whose mothers are dead, injured, missing, kidnapped, or serving in IDF reserves; nursing moms urged to donate
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This undated handout issued by Cheshire Constabulary shows nurse Lucy Letby. (Cheshire Constabulary via AP)
August 18, 2023, 5:41 pm
Nurse at UK hospital convicted of killing 7 newborn babies, trying to kill 6 more
Court finds Lucy Letby guilty of purposely harming newborns, including by injecting air into their bloodstreams and poisoning them with insulin; she denies all charges
By SYLVIA HUI and brian melley
Dr. Noa Ofek Shlomai, head of neonatology at Hadassah Medical Center, holds the baby who successfully underwent surgery immediately following birth to correct bilateral ovarian torsion detected in-utero. Next to them are Dr. Dan Arbel (center), director of the pediatric oncology surgery department, and Dr. Shay Porat, director of the obstetrics and gynecology ultrasound service. (courtesy)
July 31, 2023, 9:27 pm
In what it says is world first, Hadassah medical team saves fetus’s twisted ovaries
As clock ticks, doctors deliver and perform immediate surgery on 35-week preemie, in bid to preserve her future fertility and hormonal health
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Special cookies developed by Dr. Mona Kidon, director of the pediatric allergy clinic at Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, to treat children with severe peanut allergies. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
July 31, 2023, 3:54 am
Years in the baking, Israeli doctor’s cookie could take bite out of peanut allergies
As rates of life-threatening food allergies rise globally, researchers study underlying reasons, develop new immunology treatments, and offer updated feeding guidelines for babies
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A baby receives a routine vaccine. (naumoid; iStock by Getty Images)
June 1, 2023, 7:07 pm
Cases of whooping cough spike among children in Haredi Jerusalem communities
Israel Pediatrics Association and Midwives Association urge Health Ministry to initiate vaccination drives to prevent disease that can kill vulnerable infants
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: a mother with her baby (Pascal Skwara via iStock by Getty Images)
December 6, 2022, 9:25 am
Mothers’ bonding with their babies unharmed by pandemic, Israeli study indicates
Moms were just as emotionally available during COVID outbreak as in normal times, research finds, surprising psychologists
By Nathan Jeffay
Screen capture from video of MDA medic Monay Jamal with a newborn baby found abandoned on a street in Acre, August 8, 2022. (Channel 12)
August 9, 2022, 8:28 am
Baby found in box on street in Acre was smuggled from Nablus in West Bank — report
Medic who attended to infant visits him at neonatal ward, tells TV he is stable, incident is very unusual and she hopes he will find his way to a ‘normative family’
By ToI Staff
Identical twins Yael Yishai, right, and Avital Segel, left, pose with their newborn sons at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, May 30, 2022. (Shaare Zedek via JTA)
June 2, 2022, 8:13 am
Identical twins give birth to boys on same day in Jerusalem
Sisters from Gush Etzion each already had two girls, one boy; hospital says similar event happened in 1997
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative image: a baby in a polluted city (iStock via Getty Images)
March 10, 2022, 7:35 am
Babies in high air pollution areas 25% more likely to have low birth weight – study
Peer-reviewed Israeli research based on 381,000 births; data is vital, says epidemiologist, since low birth weight points to increased risk of illness later in life
By Nathan Jeffay
Police officers at the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem's Old City on November 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
November 22, 2021, 2:10 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 22 – Details on fatal Old City terror attack
Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross discusses Sunday’s shooting in the Old City and health and science editor Nathan Jeffay reports on new Israeli studies
By ToI Staff
Gal Gadot arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on February 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
June 29, 2021, 9:51 pm
Gal Gadot welcomes third daughter, named Daniella
Israeli actress shares a photo of her family of five on Instagram: ‘I couldn’t be more grateful and happy (and tired)’
By Amy Spiro
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, leave after visiting Canada House on January 7, 2020, in London. (AP/Frank Augstein, File)
June 6, 2021, 9:17 pm
Meghan and Harry welcome second child, Lilibet ‘Lili’ Diana
Daughter weighs in at 7 lbs, 11 oz; her middle name in honor of grandmother and Harry’s mother; baby eighth in line to British throne
By AP
A baby seen on a weight scale, as part of a medical exam, at a family health center in Israel on March 5, 2019. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
January 26, 2021, 6:04 pm
Antibiotics stunt growth, impair weight gain in infant boys: Israeli researchers
Medicine changes gut bacteria, impacting development, says Bar-Ilan University team, expressing hope that the right probiotics may solve the problem
By Nathan Jeffay
An ultrasound examination for a pregnant woman in Tel Aviv, on November 3, 2009. (Photo: Chen Leopold / Flash 90)
June 27, 2020, 6:37 pm
UK woman carries twins in separate wombs in ‘1 in 50 million’ case
28-year-old Essex resident already has two young children; condition discovered during 12-week scan
By ToI Staff
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