Children hospitalized with MIS-C after recovering from COVID
Symptoms of multisystem inflammatory syndrome include persistent fever, decreased blood pressure, digestive issues, difficulty breathing, and myocarditis, among others.
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Patient receives lung transplant from donor who recovered from COVID
Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer transplants lung from organ donor who contracted COVID in January and died of unrelated causes.
Israeli oxygen therapy effective in helping slow Alzheimer's disease
Researchers target the core pathology responsible for the advancement of the disease, rather than the symptoms alone. Patients show substantial improvement in cognitive functions.
Israeli HMO becomes world's first to use AI to detect gastrointestinal cancer
Maccabi Healthcare Services deploys Ibex Medical Analytics' artificial intelligence-powered Galen Gastric to provide pathologists with improved diagnostic ability in a fight against one of the world's most malignant diseases.
TAU researchers print first-ever 3D model of deadly brain tumor
Breakthrough technology allows researchers to test drugs on sample taken from patient to determine which drug or combination of drugs will be most effective.
Study: Cannabis use by teens could erode cerebral cortex
A comprehensive study recently published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal JAMA Psychiatry, which examined the effects of cannabis (marijuana) on adolescents' neurodevelopment, indicates a possible link between the drug and changes to the thickness of the cerebral cortex, causing it to become too thin or to erode.
Israeli smokers will soon find it much harder to light up
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz intends to combat smoking addiction in Israel, including disposable electronic cigarettes popular among Israeli teenagers.
Israeli medtech firm testing new AI-based device for early detection of blood cancer
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem partners with Sight Diagnostics to research Sight OLO, a device that performs a blood test in minutes using just two drops of blood.
Dr. Miriam Adelson inaugurates 150 new ambucycles in Jerusalem
"In your hands, these two-wheeled vehicles will work for the good of all. They will be used for the greatest good and the ultimate mitzvah of saving lives," Dr. Adelson tells United Hatzalah volunteers.
'Adelson Clinic is one of the most important in Israel'
"The person who most deserves to be here, and is no longer with us, is my late husband, Sheldon," says Dr. Miriam Adelson as she unveils new facility for treatment of drug addiction and addiction research at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv.