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| July 4, 2012
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Rabbi With ALS Able To Walk And Talk Again After New Treatment

Rabbi Shmulevitz was diagnosed with ALS four months ago and given two to four years to live. Now, able to walk and talk again after treatment.

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In January we reported on an Israeli biotechnology company, BrainStorm, which announced successful results in its clinical trial for a treatment against ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) – a fatal neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Rabbi Refael Shmulevitz - Image courtesy of Israel's Channel Two

Rabbi Refael Shmulevitz (Right) – Image courtesy of Israel’s Channel Two

Less than six months later, Israeli Channel Two audiences last night were moved to see an ailing rabbi, who had been diagnosed with ALS, able to walk and talk again after being treated with Brainstorm‘s ‘NurOwn.’ Continue Reading »

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| May 11, 2012
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Medical Breakthrough: Israel is Developing a Cancer Vaccine

Vaxil’s groundbreaking therapeutic vaccine, developed in Israel, could keep about 90% of cancers from coming back.

As the world’s population lives longer than ever, if we don’t succumb to heart disease, strokes or accidents, it is more likely that cancer will get us one way or another. Cancer is tough to fight, as the body learns how to outsmart medical approaches that often kill normal cells while targeting the malignant ones.

Hadassah HospitalIn a breakthrough development, the Israeli company Vaxil BioTherapeutics has formulated a therapeutic cancer vaccine, now in clinical trials at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem. If all goes well, the vaccine could be available about six years down the road, to administer on a regular basis not only to help treat cancer but in order to keep the disease from recurring. Continue Reading »

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| May 10, 2012
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Israeli Scientists Breakthrough in Treating Auto-Immune Diseases

A team of Israeli scientists may have achieved a breakthrough in treating autoimmune diseases, such as Crohn’s, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis.

A team of Israeli scientists from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot may have achieved a breakthrough in treating autoimmune diseases, such as Crohn’s, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue rather than invading germs.

Weizmann Institute in Rehovot

The scientists managed to “trick” the immune systems of mice into targeting an enzyme known as MMP-9, one of a family of proteins essential for processes including healing wounds. When the enzyme gets out of control, however, MMP-9 facilitates autoimmune diseases as well as the spread of cancer. Continue Reading »

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| May 7, 2012
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Israeli Scientist Develops Kit to Identify Deadly Bacteria

A 92-year-old scientist from Hebrew University has invented a kit that enables the immediate detection of drug-resistant bacteria.

Israeli scientist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has invented a kit that enables the immediate detection of drug-resistant bacteria, one of the major concerns of organizations like the World Health Organization.

In the United States alone, antibiotic-resistant infections are responsible for eight million additional hospital stays every year and for the consequent bed-to-bed spread of resistance, leading to over $20 billion per year in excess health care costs and $35 billion per year in societal costs, noted Yissum, the research and development company of the Hebrew University. Continue Reading »

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| May 4, 2012
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Israel’s medical tourism industry

Israeli hospitals boost revenues by treating foreigners, but Palestinian patients pose a special challenge

 

Medical tourism has become a major money maker for Israeli hospitals. According to data from recent years, annual revenues in Israeli hospitals from medical tourism amount to NIS 400 million (roughly $120 million.)

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Medical tourism is considered a lucrative Industry because, on average, Israeli hospitals charge 30% more from foreign patients than they do from Israeli patients.

A good medical reputation and relatively lower costs as compared to other hospitals around the world draw patients from all over the globe to receive medical care in Israel, and the arrangement is a win-win situation – they get good treatment and hospitals get to boost revenues. Continue Reading »

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