Blood

MDA deploys an ambulance every 22 seconds through 2025, with more than 1 million calls

According to their 2025 statistics report, MDA emergency vehicles were dispatched 1,383,026 times.

Magen David Adom vehicles.
Yair Lifshitz

Adding Light Through Giving Blood

 Gene therapy restores hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness. Illustration.

Children born with deadly immune flaw get powerful new gene therapy option

Illustration of a blood test.

IDF rolls out innovative blood test to spot heart attack risk years in advance


Think you have schizophrenia? A simple blood test can answer

A breakthrough in the field of brain research by Jerusalem researchers and doctors could change the way we study and predict psychiatric diseases.

Red blood cells (illustrative)

What is sickle cell anemia? - explainer

Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder in red blood cells that can present itself in a variety of ways.

 Sickle cell anemia

Lymphatic blood vessels are tailored to specific functions - study

A new study found that blood vessels are built differently depending on which organs they supply and their roles in the system.

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Magen David Adom's new shielded facility is bloody amazing!

The new center aims to double the country’s annual blood-processing capacity that could potentially save tens of thousands of lives every year.

 The Marcus National Blood Services Center

New shielded MDA Blood Services Center 1st of its kind worldwide

The six-story Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramle was specifically designed to withstand missile attacks and biological and chemical weapons.

 Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramle.

Israel and UAE collaborate to provide rapid blood tests

The HemoScreen presents accurate information from a single prick of blood from the finger within five minutes, and is able to detect certain types of cancer.

 Dubai panorama from tall building

What makes Type O blood the most common?

Although there seems to be no apparent evolutionary advantage for one blood group over another, their distribution is markedly uneven. How did one blood group become more prevalent than others?

Test tubes, taken by a health care worker, with plasma and blood samples after a separation process in a centrifuge during a coronavirus vaccination study at the Research Centers of America, in Hollywood, Florida, US, September 24, 2020.

Digital AI blood test developer Scopio Labs raises $50 million

Scopio’s technology utilizes Deep Learning AI technology and high-definition digital scans of blood samples in order to accurately analyze blood tests more efficiently.

 Red blood cell.

WHO advises against blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients

Several studies testing convalescent blood plasma have shown no apparent benefit for treating COVID-19 patients who are severely ill.

Plasma bags are pictured at the Interregional Transfusion CRS in Bern

Four fall health challenges and how to deal with them

Why do our noses sometimes bleed when the weather outside is dry?

A woman blowing her nose into a tissue, possibly after sneeze or while sick