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The US Food and Drugs Administration has given priority approval to new treatment BC819 from Israel’s Biocancell Therapeutics.

Canada has given approval for Israel’s WideMed to market its Morpheus OX and HX sleep apnea monitoring systems.

A hundred Israeli and Palestinian Arab doctors met at the Peres Peace Centre in Jaffa for an ophthalmologic convention, the first ever joint medical conference on such a scale. A great co-existence video.

A team of researchers at the Hebrew University has found a way to block a group of fatal bacterial toxins that have to date resisted all attempts to arrest them with conventional drugs.

Kaplan Medical Center doctors saved the life of a 17-year-old Palestinian girl from Rafah in Gaza after she fell from a malfunctioning Ferris wheel near her home and was critically injured. “I wish for peace between us and Israel,” Abir Abu-Nakira said. “Kaplan physicians saved me.”

A Palestinian Arab is able to paint again despite having his hand severed in an accident 18 months ago. At Hadassah, a surgeon re-attached the hand and occupational therapists provided rehabilitation.

RealView's imaging system is implanted and provides a 360-degree view of the bladder for two years of monitoring.

19 international students graduated from the Hadassah – Hebrew Uni masters program in Public Health. They included students from China, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Nigeria and South Sudan.

The Israeli government has added another NIS 20 million to the current NIS 50 million funding for Bar Ilan’s new Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee.

New Israeli bio-techs are working on treating Toxic Shock syndrome, autoimmune diseases, cancer drugs interaction, arthritis and Alzheimer’s. A new fund could help them succeed.