Notification of a forum discussion and film showing to help carers of an ailing partner or family member to take place at Beit Issie Shapiro, Raanana .

A sensitive description of the trauma of experiencing cancer and organizations devoted to caring for and assisting young patients and their families. Donate your hair to make wigs for patients of this dreaded disease.

Infertility – the causes and the treatments, both conventional and alternative, are explained by Olivia Shaw. She talks about bringing the joys of parenthood to couples who are unable to conceive and sometimes require innovative techniques.

Breast Cancer - two words that can have an instant impact on one’s life. Adding financial worries to this frightening mix can be devastating. Shari Mendes has set up a fund to help.

ALYN is a rehabilitation hospital that treats children from birth to young adults from all religious and ethnic backgrounds. With the latest equipment and ideas, multidisciplinary techniques are used involving the parents, staff, professionals, volunteers and the children interacting with each other.

Taking part in a marathon Walter Teutsch fell and now sees life from his wheel chair – he wrote this article using a voice dictation facility. He sees himself as handicapped and has a caregiver – he sees all the modern terminology as quite unnecessary and does not feel the need to be “politically” correct.

A unique therapeutic program has been introduced to address the emotional problems, behavioral difficulties and other crises in the lives of children through animal therapy. It is being operated with the assistance and support of ESRA. More on “Of Mice and Children.”

The writer of this article has suffered with depression for many years and had tried many anti-depressant drugs without success. After much thought the sufferer decided to try ECT which is administered with a general anaesthetic and does leave initial head and jaw aches. After a number of treatments the writer feels normal and happy and highly recommends this Electroconvulsive Therapy .