Good News Israel Archive from the week of December 11, 2016: Israel Technion researchers make progress in fighting cancer; November set a record month for toursim; Israel’s new Ambassador has arrived in Turkey; three Israelis won medals at the Ju-Jitsu World Championships in Poland, and much more. ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS Key enzyme discovery in fight… Read more »
Israel’s Microbot develops miniature robots for cleaning drainage pipes in the body; treatment by Israel’s Teva for Huntington disease has been approved by the US FDA; Tiberias is hosting the 6th Anglo Israel Cardiovascular Symposium, and much more.
A video showing an IDF soldier playing with a Palestinian child, who was being treated for cancer in a Tel Aviv hospital, demonstrates the truth about Israeli values and humanity.
The Exodus from Egypt was preceded by ten plagues. Today, Israelis have transformed the very essence of many of these plagues for the benefit of mankind.
While Palestinian terrorists were stabbing Israeli civilians during the recent wave of terror, a Jewish hospital in Jerusalem has been saving Palestinian babies.
A five-year-old Syrian girl’s life was saved twice in recent weeks by Israeli doctors: Once when they treated her wounds from a firefight between rival militias, and again when she was diagnosed with cancer.
Recently, the BBC erased the name of Israel, Jews and Israeli companies from a program discussing the use of genetics to improve the drought resistance of wheat. So I decided to unmask some of Israel’s global activities that benefit the world.
American firms have invested about $50 million in licensing Israeli medical marijuana patents, cannabis agro-tech start-ups, and companies developing delivery devices such as inhalers, scientists say.
“Communication means that we have to listen, not to come with the attitude that we know everything. There needs to be real dialogue.” – Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, leading scholar, educator and social activist.
A new model of treatment, called “Bring the Patient, Bring the Surgeon,” not only benefits the patient, but also helps educate physicians across borders.
Visiting from India, Sri Lanka and even Indonesia, experts on treating victims of large-scale natural disasters arrived in Israel to learn how to treat terrorism casualties.
A breakthrough Israeli-researched drug is credited for assisting former US President Jimmy Carter, a pro-Palestinian activist, in his battle with cancer.
Shlomit Grayevsky is founding director of the ALEH Jerusalem Center, home to severely mentally and physically disabled children and young adults ranging in age from infancy to 21 years.
In a dramatic race to treat a critically injured Palestinian youth, an Israeli emergency medical team rushed to an Arab hospital in Jerusalem with the equipment that would save his life.
Sivan Almoz of the First Hug Association is dedicated to providing homeless babies with the human touch necessary to help them become emotionally healthy adults.
With all the negative content in the news these days, it’s nice to read a little good news. Here’s some of the latest from Israel in the area of medicine.