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Israel’s Real View is bringing fantasy to reality with 3-D holograms that doctors can use to save lives. Its advanced 3-D interactive visualization holographic system allows physicians to work with the patients’ true 3-D anatomy appearing as precise volumetric holograms floating in mid-air.

Within 72 hours the staff of Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva successfully transplanted five organs into five small children. They included a 7-year-old girl whose father donated a liver lobe and a 5-year-old boy who received a kidney from his mother.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Dr. Karen Tordjman of Tel Aviv University discovered a new genetic mutation in a sterile Androgen Receptor Insensitivity sufferer. She then used a treatment that theoretically had no hope, but within two years led to him successfully father three children.

(Thanks to Nevet – www.BroaderView.org) This video (part 1 of 2) contains details of three Israeli devices that I hadn’t even heard about before. They are EarDoc, Unfo and Qure I will include details about these devices next week together with Part 2 of the video. Stay tuned!

Nancy and Stephen Grand, of San Francisco, have donated $50 million to Weizmann’s Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine. The INCPM focuses on genomics, protein profiling, bioinformatics, and treatment discovery to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.

United Hatzalah volunteer medic Itzik Hillel saved the life of a one-month-old baby girl who had been left in a hot car. Itzik used a device called ResQme that shatters the car window without causing any risk to the child. The device had been distributed to medics only the night before.

Two new videos highlight how Israel’s Beit Issie Shapiro helps children born with mental and physical disabilities develop to their full potential – even to use iPads. In the first video are Roni, Eytan, Nevo and Liora. In the second Eytan’s Dad is running the London marathon for Beit Issie and his son.

(Thanks to NoCamels.com) The IceSense3 tumor-freezing technology from Israel’s IceCure is already destroying breast cancer. Now IceCure is to conduct clinical trials on lung cancer tumors, fully funded by the Kameda Medical Center of Japan.

Israel’s D-Pharm has begun Phase 2 testing in the Ukraine of its THR-18 treatment for patients suffering from blood clots and strokes.

If you enjoyed watching September’s “viral” rap video by Shaare Tzedek medical staff, then here is a version with English subtitles. “It’s all in our hands” now makes perfect sense.