Assuta Health

A real eye opener: Surgeon mistakenly operates on patient's healthy eye

The hospital stated that, as of now, no damage was caused to the mistakenly operated eye, but emphasized that the incident was being taken seriously.

Woman's eyes 370
 Assuta Medical Center in Beersheba

This is what the new hospital that opened in Beersheba looks like from the inside

 Families of four released hostages reunite with the returned hostages, January 25, 2025.

Released hostage Naama Levy spent months alone in a Hamas tunnel, rehab lead reveals

 Aminach Medic

Aminach Medic to supply equipment to hospitals and health funds in Israel


Assuta embryo case: Hospital mismanaged IVF unit, put money first

The members of the committee said that it was not a single unfortunate mistake but a chain of errors that caused the embryos to be replaced.

 Baby (Illustrative).

Healthy pets can transmit dangerous microbes to humans and vice versa- study

Curious whether cats and dogs play a role in the infection of hospital patients with multidrug-resistant organisms, researchers examined over 2,800 hospital patients and their furry friends. 

 Cat and dog (Illustrative)

Israeli tech ‘Super Seaweed’ produces natural health compounds, medicine from the sea

New Israeli tech could lead to anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and antibiotic treatments.

 Underwater seaweed garden, Bat-Yam, Israel.

Five vegetables that should definitely be eaten on the regular

Whether you're on a special meal plan or not, eating veggies is crucial for your health. Loaded with vitamins, minerals, water, and so on, vegetables are the basis of everything.

Fresh vegetables are sold at the shuk (market)

Peanut allergies reduced by 77% by introducing peanuts at 4-6 months old

The modeled approach found that it is best to introduce safe peanut products at four to six months of age.

Smooth peanut butter in a jar

Elite soccer players 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's -study

A new study aimed to determine the risk of neurodegenerative disease among male players in the top Swedish soccer division Allsvenskan compared to the general population.

Djurgarden's Jonathan Ring in action with Sirius' Karl Larson - Allsvenskan - IK Sirius v Djurgardens IF - Uppsala, Sweden, June 14, 2020

Are liquid biopsies better alternative for cancer diagnosis? - comment

Biopsies are taken to establish an initial diagnosis, seeking to determine whether or not the patient has cancer at all – and if so, how advanced it is.

 Growing cancer cells (in purple) are surrounded by healthy cells (in pink), illustrating a primary tumor spreading to other parts of the body.

Our focus must be moved to preventing disease and illnesses to begin with - opinion

Medical and nutritional research can change the treatments we choose and sometimes, research findings change rapidly.

 DEAN ORNISH, founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, UC-San Francisco, cites the words of psychologist Abraham Maslow that ‘if you reimburse to use drugs and surgery, people use drugs and surgery.’

HIV cured using stem cells extracted from umbilical cord - study

Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood instead of from donors increases the potential to cure the disease through stem cell transplants in people of all racial backgrounds.

A digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image depicts a single, red colored H9-T cell that had been infected by numerous, spheroid shaped, mustard colored human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) particles attached to the cell's surface membrane.

New discovery could help high-risk COVID19 patients- study

UVA scientists say a drug used to lower blood sugar levels shows potential in fighting severe cases of COVID-19, especially for people with obesity and diabetes

 SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (illustrative).