Israel Active

Yet another example. The BBC radio broadcast itself didn’t mention that the Exablate Neuro ultrasound machine for treating tremor is produced by Israel’s Insightec.  They then buried that fact deep in their report on their website.

Israel inaugurated the Technion Integrated Cancer Center (TICC) in Haifa.  The center is a first-of-its kind hub for global cancer research, which will expedite the discovery of new diagnostic tools and treatments through a collaborative “bench-to-bedside” approach.

In what may be the largest purchase of defibrillators ever made in Israel, volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) organization United Hatzalah recently purchased 1,000 defibrillators - one for each of its volunteers.  The aim is that no one in Israel will die from a treatable cardiac arrest.

Israel’s Dr. Gilad Evrony was awarded the Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology by Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  Dr Evrony sequences and analyzes the genomes of individual brain cells to detect mutations.

I reported previously that the US FDA approved the P-ARTIS innovative upright CT proton scanner from Israel’s P-Cure. Now the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center will be the first in the US to use the P-Cure scanner for patients being treated for lung cancer.

More than half a million viewers have been watching live broadcasts on Facebook of Israeli brain surgeons at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba removing a benign tumor. The purpose was to promote the work at the new brain center.

Israel Technion researchers have found that the ubiquitin enzyme RNF4 binds to oncogenic proteins to give cancer cells longer lives.  Increased levels of RNF4 have been found in colon and breast cancer patients.  Removing or inhibiting RNF4 leads to the death of cancer cells.

Israel’s Insulog is a device to help diabetes patients keep track of their insulin doses and prevent accidental overdoses. It snaps onto most types of disposable insulin pen, monitors and logs the dose and sends data to a smartphone app.  It displays details of the last dose to the user. Insulog is funding on Indiegogo.  

Israeli surgeons from Save a Child’s Heart were back in Tanzania, fixing another fourteen young, faulty hearts. The Israelis worked with a German team from Berlin’s Deutsches Herzzentrum during the five-day medical mission.

Israel’s Sight Diagnostics (SightDx) in collaboration with the US Army Medical Research Directorate Kenya (USAMRD-K) is developing a portable malaria and complete blood count (CBC) reader.  It will be calibrated and tested in clinical trials at the USAMRD-K Field Station in Kisumu, Kenya.