Assuta medical centers

No. 38: Joshua Shemer, Shali Mazaki-Tovi: Bringing innovation to healthcare

Assuta's Joshua (Shuki) Shemer and Sheba's Shali Mazaki-Tovi are at the forefront of Israel's medical innovation.

(L-R): Shali Mazaki-Tovi, Joshua Shemer
Woman's eyes 370

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

An illustrative image of the HPV vaccine.

Gynecologist to 'Post': This is why everyone should get the HPV vaccine - opinion

 Assuta Medical Center in Beersheba

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


Can laughing really heal?

Medical clowns bring joy to pediatric patients at Assuta Ashdod. You can help them.

 Medical clown Fifi with a patient

Difficult conversations: When people disagree

When couples come into my office saying that they rarely argue and yet are barely speaking with each other, they are likely “checked out” of the relationship.

‘A SINGLE QUESTION serves as the sole criterion for whether or not a couple should stay together: Do you still love each other?’

Mall entry in Israel to require COVID-19 Green Pass starting Friday

Omicron cases spike to 89 * Health Ministry says unvaccinated have three-fold increased chance of contracting variant

Shopppers in Mamilla.

Dangerous Omicron variant shows why global vaccination matters

Despite repeated warnings from the WHO, rich countries have continued chasing after vaccines while poor- and middle-income countries are left behind.

  A health worker talks to people as they wait to register next to the Transvaco coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine train, after South Africa's rail company Transnet turned the train into a COVID-19 vaccination center on rails to help the government speed up its vaccine rollout in the country

Israeli Big Data unicorn Bright Data, is breaking down barriers of public web space

Big Data company Bright Data uses tools that allow companies to view large public data sets and condensing them into actionable insights.

 Illustrative photo of digital files.

We have to stick with Israel no matter what - opinion

For Jeffrey Green, so much love abounds for this captivating land, this hub of spiritual currents, natural wonders and incredible people.

 THE RIBBON-CUTTING ceremony for the newly-built Assuta Hospital in Ashdod in 2017, attended by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Rockets fired at Ashdod as health minister visits local hospital

Assuta Medical Center was inaugurated in 2017. Most of its structure was built as a bomb shelter.

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein is seen visiting Assuta in Ashdod amid rocket fire launched towards the city from Gaza.

‘First coronavirus, now this,’ says mom who gave birth under Gaza rockets

As she was giving birth, the sirens blasted several times. The vast majority of the hospital is a secured structure, allowing doctors to continue their work, but the experience was still challenging.

A new mother at Samson Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod on May 12, 2021.

Israeli woman sues hospital after doctors blind her, lie about it

Following the surgery, doctors called the patient back to come in for several visits in which they presented her with a false impression that her vision might still improve.

Eyesight (illustrative)

One-dose radiation therapy found effective for breast cancer patients

TARGIT-IORT, delivered during breast surgery, spares women 15 or more hospital visits and was found equally as effective as post-surgery radiation treatments in some patients.

Breast cancer (illustrative photo)