Surgery

Former hostage Alon Ohel describes threats, sexual harassment, starvation, and surgery without anesthesia during months in Hamas captivity.

“If it weren’t for the pacemaker implantation, we would have had to remove the area in the brain responsible for the seizures, with all the medical consequences that accompany such a case.”

Also known as “zone therapy,” reflexology is an ancient practice that began in Egypt, China, and India and made its way to the West a century ago.

Experts stress that circumcisions should be treated as a surgery, with trained professionals and proper medical settings.

The unique laparoscopic surgery done at Rabin Medical Center allowed the patient to carry her baby to term naturally, with dozens of medical staff members involved in the operation.

Medical teams at Beilinson emphasized that Ohel’s case is one of the most complex they have treated in recent years.

Molluscs are the largest group of marine animals, comprising about 23% of all creatures living in saltwater environments.

The government has said that 20,000 Israelis have been wounded and injured at the hands of enemy terrorists since the heinous incursion of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups on October 7.

At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery.

Scientists in China transplanted a genetically modified pig lung into a human body for the first time, with the organ surviving nine days, marking a milestone in tackling global organ shortages.