Monthly Archives: February 2022

Repairing livers for transplant

Tel Aviv Sourasky (Ichilov) Medical Center performed, for the first time in Israel, a donor liver machine perfusion (MP) to improve a dilapidated liver and successfully transplant it into a patient. By repairing aged and damaged livers, it will reduce … Continue reading

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Anti-viral treatment has promise

Israel’s Todos (see here previously) completed a Phase 2 study of its Tollovir treatment on 31 hospitalized Covid-19 patients. Their clinical improvement was 2.7 days faster than the placebo group. Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital is now allowing Tollovir for compassionate … Continue reading

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Eradicating cancer

To mark World Cancer Day on 4th Feb, these articles describe some of the latest developments of Israeli scientists at the Technion Institute, Ben Gurion University, and Tel Aviv University. https://nocamels.com/2022/02/cancer-innovative-therapy-strategies/ https://www.vpklab.sites.tau.ac.il/

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