Pharmaceuticals

Taking too many medications may harm older adults, study warns

Sometimes doctors aren’t aware of what others have prescribed or have not reassessed the patient’s condition to determine if he or she still needs to take them.

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Noam Zilbershtain, senior vice president and general manager, HP Indigo; Adi Soffer Teeni, CEO of Meta Israel, vice president and member of the EMEA leadership team; and Karin Mayer Rubinstein, CEO and president of IATI.

IATI CEOs Forum meets in Kiryat Gat to discuss multinational industry resilience

Mrs. Glassman enjoys a cup of coffee at one of the Jerusalem cafés she frequented

A Passover tribute: Kindness from a Jerusalem neighborhood pharmacy

 Illustration photo of Super Pharm drug store and pharmacy at the Hadar mall in Jerusalem, on April 30, 2018.

New immigrant pharmacists face discrimination, lack of gov't support despite professional shortage


Teva joins world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies 

After years of financial and legal problems, Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. named No.19 among the world’s top 20 best-earning pharmaceutical companies.

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Medical hotline to assist patients and professionals reopens in Israel

The hotline, which had previously functioned only for emergencies, will reopen for expanded assistance starting this week.

Man talking on mobile phone.

The growth strategy of the Be Pharm chain: opens 3 new branches

As part of the strategy to expand its deployment all over the country, the Be Pharm chain opens three new branches that join the 96 active chain branches.

  Three new branches are opening in strategic locations for the pharmacy chain Be /

New appointments in L'Oréal Israel's senior management avenue

L'Oréal Israel Group announces three new appointments to the Company's Senior Management as part of strengthening the Company's strategic leadership as Israel's leading beauty company.

R to L (sitting) Anne Hirsch, Ariella Yaari, R to L (standing)  Elie Sagiv and Gali Lev (photo credit: PR)

Nonprofit pharmacy organization provides free medication to evacuees

The nonprofit organization, Briut Shava Lakol, brings free medications to people who lost their homes or were forced to leave them for safety during Israel's war against Hamas.

 People queue as Israelis are evacuated from the southern town of Sderot, near Israel's border with Gaza, October 15, 2023

Use of medications for anxiety, sleep problems and depression increasing since the war began

It is important to discuss medications with medical professionals.

 Pills spilling out of a bottle (illustrative).

Two Bar-Ilan University researchers receive NIS 14m. in grants

Chirality is fundamental across many different hierarchies of nature and is studied in different fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.

 Dr. Shahar Alon.

Israel's Health, Finance ministries to freeze rise in medication prices

In order to freeze the price increase, Israeli law requires the approval of the finance and health ministers, as well as the ratification of the Health Committee.

 An ultra-orthodox haredi Jewish man shops for medicine at the local pharmacy in Tzfat, Northern Israel

US Supreme Court rejects Teva challenge to $235 million GSK award in patent dispute

Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have been disputing over this patent lawsuit since 2014.

 Teva building in Kfar Saba

Israeli customer attacks pharmacists because of long wait in queue

After the attack by an impatient customer, the pharmacist was slightly injured and was taken to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

 Illustration photo of Super Pharm drug store and pharmacy at the Hadar mall in Jerusalem, on April 30, 2018.