Israel medical breakthroughs

Israeli doctors use patients' own cells to attack blood cancer cells in medical breakthrough

The first three patients to undergo the procedure did so without complication and were discharged as planned, Rabin Medical Center announced.

Dr Yarden Shor Nareznoy , Scientist of the Samueli Institute and Maya Avraham Hayun, QA Manager at the Samueli Institute
 DTRAX X-ray

World's first spinal cord transplant to take place in Israel, could allow patients to walk again

Representative images of the microstructure of formed hydrogels under various US induction durations, taken by a scanning electron microscope.

Technion breakthrough for better drug delivery and tissue implantation

Neurosurgeon performs surgery on epileptic 10 month old baby

Vagal-nerve stimulator implanted for first time into ten-month old epilepsy patient


Hebrew U expert links depression to brain immune cell irregularities

Some forms of depression may result from malfunctioning microglia but this does not mean that all sub-types of depression are caused by abnormalities in these cells.

An image of the human brain

Israel can prevent it

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Non-invasive test for Gaucher disease developed

Technique does not require a sample of amniotic fluid

Doctors perform surgery

It’s a boy!

Israel is mega-advanced in matters medical; it’s always amazing.

Baby boy

Changes coming to the Health Ministry

UTJ’s Litzman expected to cancel most decisions made by Yesh Atid’s German

A doctor stands with stethoscope in this undated handout photo.

Youngest Israeli ever to get liver transplant – a five-month-old baby – gets lobe from her mother

The mother’s own liver will grow to normal size in a matter of weeks.

Schneider courtesy photo of baby after transplant surgery.

Everything you always wanted to know about sternutation but were too sneezy to ask

The banal phenomenon of sneezing is analyzed in depth by a former Russian-immigrant neurologist’s Hebrew-language book.

Hit’atshut: Biosemiotica Shel Hahayim Habanaliyim (The Sneeze: Biosemiotics of Banal Life)

Healthcare crisis looms over Israel’s aging population

For decades, Israel has enjoyed an enviable reputation for healthcare, but the demographic reality propping up this reputation is about to collapse.

Doctors perform surgery [illustrative].

Tuer le cancer

Les scientifiques israéliens sont à l’avant-garde de la guerre contre « la pire des maladies». Tour d’horizon des dernières percées dans le domaine de la recherche

L'usine Teva à Jérusalem

What is Israel fighting for?

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