Israeli health news
Where research becomes impact: Bar-Ilan University’s healthtech vision
As its 70th anniversary approaches, Bar-Ilan’s innovation strategy sets it on a journey with Sheba Medical Center, from the lab bench and clinical research to advancing health worldwide
MDA evacuates premature infants ahead of expected Iranian retaliation
Organ donation by Tzeela Gez, murdered in West Bank shooting, brings hope amid tragedy
WHO warns: Measles outbreak spreading alarmingly
Hadassah hospital to expand pediatric bone marrow transplant unit
The new expanded unit will enable Hadassah to provide life-saving treatments to 51 additional children every year.
Nurses strike in response to violence towards healthcare workers
No recommendations have been implemented in the attempts to eradicate violence. The Israeli Histadrut of nurses declared: “It is unthinkable that a nurse could go to work and end up in the E.R.”
A higher calling: How Israeli marijuana research changed the world
“The problem is that for many years, marijuana was put on the [same] scale as cocaine and morphine.”
Summer hazards for kids
Health professionals answer your questions.
Sick? Injured? Get to your health fund
The final months of 2017 were tough on the health of the people in Zion
District court mediates end to paramedical workers’ strike
During the hearing, the judge expressed solidarity with the workers’ struggle.
Sheba Medical Center staff ’s Holocaust encounter in Poland
“We came here to say to those who were murdered here, you did not perish or sacrifice yourself in vain."
Health Ministry to give flu shots to northern schoolchildren
A special subcommittee of the Knesset Children’s Rights Committee was outraged over the ministry’s intention to discriminate against the periphery.
Pluristem’s potential new breakthrough
Haifa company weeks away from presenting clinical trial results that could ‘generate hope’ for patients suffering from untreatable vascular disease.
New law says Israeli schools must always have Epipens on site
“The cost of syringes is lower than that of the cookies placed in the teachers’ room."