Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem is treating high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients with NDV-01 biodegradable polymer gel that releases chemo continuously over 14 days. 95% of patients achieved a complete response, with 76% disease-free after one year. … Continue reading →

Israel’s Teva has received FDA approval for Weltruza, a monthly injection for adults with schizophrenia. The long-acting injectable contains the antipsychotic olanzapine to help patients who have difficulty taking daily medications. (But not in UK pharmacies.) https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/e2s62jq0k https://thedailybritain.co.uk/royal-college-pharmacy-teva-israel-palestine/

In a medical world first, doctors at Israel’s Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva have delivered gene therapy into the brain of an eight-month-old baby suffering from a rare, life-threatening form of genetic epilepsy. They injected healthy copies of … Continue reading →

Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered that irreversible hearing loss caused by damage to inner ear hair cells, may be reversed by converting nearby “transdifferentiating Deiters’ cells (tDCs) from supporting cells to hair cells. Expanding this to other cells could … Continue reading →

Israel’s Modulight Biotherapeutics is developing optogenetic therapy  using light-activated proteins (opsins – developed at Israel’s Weizmann Institute) to target neurons in the brain and treat severe neurological disorders. These include neuropathic pain, epilepsy, and movement disorders. https://www.modulight.bio/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/press-release/ https://israelactive.com/?s=optogenetic+

Israel’s Nuri Braintech has developed the world’s first emotion brain-computer interface for psychiatry to treat trauma sufferers. Its implantable system uses Deep Brain Recoding – a closed-loop neuromodulation protocol that senses trauma signals and guides the brain to unlearn them. … Continue reading →

Israel’s Phantom GI is developing a device designed to create an ostomy under local anesthesia. It would relieve a blockage for inoperable bowel obstruction patients (some 55,000 per year in the USA). The PercStoma  device uses a needle puncture, local … Continue reading →

Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute and in New Jersey have proved that DNA mutations do not occur randomly. Repair enzymes fix damaged DNA, preventing diseases such as cancer, but only if the DNA bends to create a negative charge. The … Continue reading →