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The UK’s Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health has awarded an Honorary Fellowship to Professor. Eitan Kerem, head of the Division of Pediatrics at the Hadassah Medical Center and cystic fibrosis specialist. He was praised especially for his work training Palestinian Arab pediatricians in his cystic fibrosis clinic, and treating Palestinian Arab children.

Researchers at Israel’s Technion Institute have developed a nanomedicine technology for the targeted treatment of gastric tumors.  The platform combines anti-cancer and anti-resistance compounds, packaged orally in beta-casein – a constituent of mother’s milk.

A Palestinian Arab baby without a pulse was brought to where IDF soldiers were stationed and they immediately began emergency treatment. They were able to restore the baby’s breathing before the Red Crescent arrived to take him to hospital. The baby is now in stable condition.

The Israel Medical Association has launched a database (in Hebrew) of Israeli public and private doctors.  Currently containing 1500 doctors (and growing) one can search by name, specialty and subspecialty, location, gender, professional status, languages they speak and age group that they treat.

Dr. Ronald Lehman is first in NYC to perform PROlat(TM) spinal surgery using technology from Israel’s Mazor Robotics.  He praised the time saved (one hour), the absence of having to flip over the patient and the reduced radiation that the patient and operating staff were exposed to.  In addition, Mazor’s platform has now been approved by the medical authorities in (South) Korea.

Israeli startup BlueWind Medical has won a CE mark for its miniature neuro-stimulation device to treat overactive bladder.  The OAB-1000 system is wireless, has no battery, is 90% smaller than existing devices and is minimally invasive, being implanted in the leg.

Israel’s Amit Goffer invented the ReWalk for paraplegics, but as a quadriplegic he couldn’t use it. So he invented UPnRIDE which allows wheelchair-bound quadriplegics to get vertical.  Watch Amit use the latest version of UPnRIDE.

Israeli startup MDAlgorithms has built MDacne - the world’s first app to provide mobile acne analysis with customized treatment plans.  Users complete a questionnaire and take a selfie. An algorithm then processes the data and offers food and hygiene tips and recommended medications.

Israeli startup MedyMatch is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) platform using proprietary algorithms to process CT image data in the Cloud.  Fast analysis of data will help physicians make accurate critical clinical decisions – e.g. with stroke diagnosis.

4-year-old Sanusey was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. The surgery needed to repair his heart is not available in Gambia. Sanusey is now recovering from open heart surgery at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel. He is the 4,000th child saved by Israel’s Save a Child’s Heart organization.  Other children currently being treated include five from Iraq and Zead from Gaza. ?