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Dr. Zvi Bentwich has won a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in eradicating common parasitic infestations that contribute to Africa's AIDS and tuberculosis epidemics.

Read some more of the compliments that delegates from Ghana, Uganda, Thailand, Russia, Indonesia and the Philippines said about Israel at the American Cancer Society conference in New York.

It’s all go at Israel’s biotech Brainsway. Positive results of trials for chronic diabetic pain relief and for treatment of aphasia (language disorder); and trials for obesity treatment were given the go-ahead.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have identified the molecular basis for the breakage of DNA – the hallmark of cancer cells.

Researchers from the Sheba Medical Centre in Tel Hashomer have found that the natural protein klotho, shrinks pancreatic cancer in mice. They are now working to reduce side effects.

Unrelated donors provided their organs to strangers so that their own loved ones would likewise receive treatment.

Thanks to Haifa Ramban hospital’s new viral IVF unit, a HIV-infected husband was able to father two babies clear of the deadly virus.

Israeli cardiologist Dr Dov Shimon has invented a simple device that stops calcium fractures, dislodged during surgery, from blocking the passage of blood to the brain.

Weizmann scientists have proved that social pressure plays tricks on our memories.

Hundreds of International researchers and clinicians at the annual conference of the European Hair Research Company in Jerusalem will discuss how hair stem cells can treat chronic diseases.