Monthly Archives: August 2020

Stress relief pre surgery reduces metastatic risk

Posted on August 16, 2020

Tel Aviv University researchers reduced secondary cancer following colorectal tumor removal. Deralin and Etopan were given before and after surgery. 3 years later the cancer had spread significantly less than in a control group. Now pancreatic cancer patients will be … Continue reading →

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Approval to test treatment for advanced cancer

Posted on August 16, 2020

Israel’s KAHR Medical has received US FDA approval to begin Phase 1 & 2 clinical (human) trials of its DSP107 treatment of advanced solid tumors (reported here previously). The trials will assess DSP107 both by itself and in combination with … Continue reading →

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The Israeli at Moderna’s vaccine project

Posted on August 16, 2020

This 30-minute video features Israel’s Dr. Tal Zaks – chief medical officer of Moderna, a front-runner in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine. He summarizes the progress of the latest trial, and how his education at BGU’s Joyce and Irving … Continue reading →

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Hadassah tests Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine

Posted on August 16, 2020

Professor Zeev Rotstein, CEO of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center, has revealed that its clinic in Skolkovo, Moscow is involved in clinical safety trials of the new Russian Covid-19 vaccine. Phase 3 trials are still ongoing, even while Russia’s President Putin … Continue reading →

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Previous TB vaccinations help young Covid-19 patients

Posted on August 16, 2020

Researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion and Hebrew Universities have found that vaccinations given against Tuberculosis (BCGs) in the last 15 years reduced death rates and infection rates in COVID-19 patients under 24 years of age. Data from 55 countries was … Continue reading →

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Pluristem’s Covid-19 Phase 2 Germany trial

Posted on August 16, 2020

Israel’s Pluristem Therapeutics (reported here previously) has been approved by German’s health regulatory authority to conduct a Phase 2 clinical trial of its PLX PAD stem cells on 40 serious Covid-19 patients. Pluristem is already conducting a 140-patient Phase 2 … Continue reading →

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Israel offers help to Lebanon

Posted on August 9, 2020

Israel has offered Lebanon medical and humanitarian assistance in the wake of the blast at Beirut port. Even the BBC & CNN reported this. Israeli doctors and citizens sent messages of support and Israeli hospitals are on standby to receive … Continue reading →

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French Jews fly to freedom

Posted on August 9, 2020

140 Olim (immigrants) from France have just arrived in Israel thanks to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. They included medical and hi-tech professionals and many who suffered from anti-Semitism in France. Also, see the World Zionist Org’s plans … Continue reading →

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Paramedic meets paramedic who saved his life

Posted on August 9, 2020

12 years ago, a United Hatzalah paramedic saved Yaakov Bar Yochai’s life after he almost drowned in Eilat. It inspired Yaakov to also become a paramedic, but he was sad that he could not find and thank the person who … Continue reading →

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The Earth’s magnetic field 2606 years ago

Posted on August 9, 2020

When Jerusalem burned on the 9th Av 586 BCE, the intense heat realigned magnetic material in the floor of a building being excavated in the City of David. Yoav Vaknin of Tel Aviv University has been able to measure the … Continue reading →

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