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Two Israeli baby-food executives have developed a new vegetable-based product called INDI (Innovative Non Dairy Infant formula).  It provides a solution for babies who cannot tolerate cows milk.  It also doesn’t contain soy, which can affect a baby’s hormones.

An old Jewish blessing states, “You should live for 120 years.” Jerusalem’s Herzog Hospital, Israel’s oldest hospital, is celebrating its 120th birthday and is still expanding. Herzog is Israel’s foremost center for geriatric and mental health care, treatment and research.

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem together with the Max Dellbruck Institute in Berlin, has discovered how circular RNA is produced.  The findings increase knowledge of degenerative diseases both in muscle and the brain, and eventually can help their treatment.

Israel’s Biocancell Therapeutics has reported a successful clinical trial on high-risk bladder cancer patients.  It will allow the company to proceed to a Phase III trial of its BC-819 product, which is administered together with BCG, the standard treatment.

Israel’s XLVision Sciences manufactures the IOPtiMate CO2 laser treatment for severe Glaucoma sufferers.  The treatment has just made its first sale in Hong Kong.  (Warning the video – although only an animation - may be unsettling to some readers)

Israeli scientists have discovered that a bad taste memory can be overcome by re-tasting the food in a different place.  There is a link in the brain between remembering what you ate and where you ate it.  It could help parents struggling to persuade children to eat food that they say they don’t like.

Technion scientists are the first in the world to build cancer-killing chemicals whilst inside the tumor.  Their system will allow chemotherapy treatments to be tailored for the patient and concentrated only where it is necessary, thus escaping the usual harsh side effects.

There is a 10% error rate in standard (unassisted) spinal surgery, resulting in about 4% cases of permanent nerve damage.  But the robots from Israel’s Mazor Renaissance ensure a perfect outcome every time.  A highlight in this new video is a pole-vaulter competing six months after robotic surgery.

A detailed IBA news report about the medical holograms that Israel’s RealView Imaging projects straight into the hands of surgeons in the operating room.

(Thanks to United With Israel) A cutting-edge brain catheterization procedure was performed at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem while being broadcast live to 12,000 US doctors attending the world’s largest cardiovascular conference.