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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.

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.

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.

This wonderful film features Professor Gera Neufeld of Israel’s Technion whose team discovered the LOXL2 enzyme and has led to drug treatments for cancer and fibrosis.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Israeli biotech Bioness’ H200 Wireless Hand Rehabilitation System for treating hand paralysis brought on by strokes, spinal injury etc.