Healthcare

Trends in Jewish Health Issues.

Every Rosh HaShanah, as Dalya Harel welcomes friends and relatives from abroad into her home from abroad, she eagerly awaits the arrival of some other New Year favorites — apples, honey and head lice.

“It’s a very busy season,” she said. “I had guests from Israel, and I cannot tell you what they brought me.”

Rabbi Dayle Friedman, author and director of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism, has served as a pioneer in the Jewish community’s work with the elderly. She was founding director of chaplaincy services at the Philadelphia Geriatric
Center, and a founding member of the National Association of Jewish Chaplains and the Forum on Aging, Religion and Spirituality.

Women with breast cancer have seen a modest increase in survival rates over the past decade, as both prophylactic and combative treatment options become more widely available, and as expertise in genetics and molecular biology continue to expand on the clinical level.

New York Methodist Hospital’s Division of Urology, headed by Dr. Ivan Grunberger, is seeking qualified individuals to participate in three clinical research trials.

When it comes to curing cancer, one scientist gives God all the credit as he moves one step closer to slaying the resilient killer.