Israel Active

Surgeons at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center saved the life of a critically wounded Israeli soldier evacuated from Syria with a bullet lodged in his heart. They made several incisions to stop the bleeding but left the bullet in place for later removal by catheterization.

Organs from six-year-old Israeli Ariel Hakakian, who died from influenza complications, saved the lives of two adults and two children. His intestine was used by surgeons at Beilinson Medical Center in one of the most rare and complex transplants ever performed in Israel (see second link).

Save a Child’s Heart, operating out of the International Pediatric Cardiac Center and Sylvan Adams Children’s Hospital at Wolfson Medical Center, has performed its 8,000th life-saving heart surgery for a child from Africa. Plus training African doctors to save lives. Please watch the video.

Physicians at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center say a chicken bone lurking in a man’s soup caused a blockage in his lung. This led to an infection that nearly killed him. After medication failed to clear the infection and his severe cough, a bronchoscopy revealed the cause.

Israeli-invented CAR-T immunotherapy, which re-arms T-cells with synthetic receptors to seek and destroy malignant cells, has already changed the outlook for several blood cancers worldwide and is steadily expanding in Israeli hospitals through tightly regulated clinical programs.

Israel’s BioLineRX (see previously) has partnered with Norway’s Hemispherian to develop GLIX1, a first-in-class, oral, small molecule targeting DNA damage response in glioblastoma and other cancers.

Scientists at Israel’s Technion Institute used low-frequency sounds in Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” to make cells ‘vibrate’ and parts of the brain to ‘light up’. This then released proteins that helped get medication across the blood-brain barrier. Thanks for helping Israel, Roger.

A new video featuring Israel’s i-BrainTech (see previously) showing how their system allows athletes to focus their minds to improve their physical skills.

Israeli medical NGO United Hatzalah has launched a pilot of its new electric ambu-scooters. These will get UH medics to medical emergencies even faster. What next – medics on electric skates?

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