Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have found new RNA-control switches (“ribo-switches) for genes encoding antibiotic resistance and discovered that these switches are actually “turned on” by the antibiotics themselves.  The switches could be turned off by future treatments. http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/switching-antibiotic-resistance

No newborn with a heart defect like that of Cypriot baby Vassilios had ever survived. But Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center was willing to treat him.  After an anxious journey to Israel, Hadassah surgeons achieved the “impossible” and after 10 days … Continue reading →

Palestinian Arab student Sara al Katzroy collapsed whilst jogging.  She was brought from Jericho hospital to Jerusalem where Hadassah doctors used a Molecular Adsorbent Recirculation System (MARS) to save her liver.  Sara now wants to become a nurse. http://www.hadassah.org/news-stories/sara-katzroy.html

Two people have regained their eyesight after receiving the corneas of the late former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who died March 17 after a long battle with cancer.  Avraham Gian, 81, and an unnamed 70-year-old woman received the corneas at … Continue reading →

UK medical journal The Lancet reported the first implants of the interatrial shunts from Israel’s V-Wave (see previous newsletters).  In less than 1 hour, each of 10 Canadian patients suffering poor left ventricular function received new implants and were discharged … Continue reading →