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Trials of Israel’s Given Imaging’s unique endoscopic capsule camera have begun in Japan where more than 42,000 people died from colorectal cancer in 2009. The disease can be prevented through early detection.

US physicians who have passed American MD exams (USMLE) in the past ten years, and who want to settle and work in Israel, will receive exemption from the local licensing exam. This is the first time that Israeli health authorities have accepted foreign test results for an MD license.

A doctor in Iran consulted Dr. Adi Weissbuch of Israel’s Kaplan Medical Center, who was able to prevent complications that would have risked a pregnant woman’s life.

Israeli medical aesthetics manufacturer Viora provides a treatment that eliminates the excess skin remaining after extreme weight loss. Instead of surgery, ReFit offers a non-invasive radio-frequency technique that tightens sagging skin in a series of 20-minute sessions.

Israel’s Ultrashape Medical has obtained EU CE Mark certification for its Vertical Dynamic Focus technology that removes fat and cellular tissue non-invasively.

Hebrew University researcher Dr Adi Mizrahi has proved that the apparent instinctive maternal abilities of new mothers are actually the result of changes in their neo-cortical networks.

PRX-105 from Israel’s Protalix Biotherapeutics may help drive the brain’s transcription machinery to follow a protective path leading to new treatment options for Parkinson’s disease.

Israeli biotech Neuroderm has achieved promising results in trials of ND0611, a carbidopa patch for treating Parkinson’s disease.

Pluristem Thereputics’s PLX-PAD stem cell treatment has had success in combating critical limb ischemia (blockage of the arteries in the limbs), which can lead to gangrene and amputation.

124 students began their studies at Bar-Ilan’s radical new institute, dedicated to preventing disease and promoting health. They included 54 Israelis who have returned to their homeland from foreign universities. President Peres stated, “The Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee will change the face of the State of Israel.”