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Medical research

Illustration - Opération chirurgicale à l'hôpital Wolfson de Holon en Israël

3 min

Society

60 percent of Israelis want to donate their organs - new study

Israel Transplant's strategy is to transform the act of organ donation, previously considered heroic and rare, into a normative and fair act

Read time: 3 min.


Steve Mackin, President & CEO Mercy; Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, M.D. CEO Sheba Medical Center; Henrique Neves CEO Hospital Israelite Albert Einstein; Gianrico Farrugia, M.D. President & CEO Mayo Clinic; Kevin Smith, D.Phil. CEO University Health Network

2 min

Technology & Science

Israel's Sheba Hospital integrated into global medical data network

The Mayo Clinic Platform Connect currently provides secure, cloud-based access to de-identified clinical data across three continents

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Dr. Shai Rosenberg, Hadassah

3 min

Technology & Science

Israeli researchers use artificial intelligence to identify cancer genes

'The model we created has a high accuracy of 96.5 percent,' says Dr. Shai Rosenberg

Read time: 3 min.


Israeli doctors perform surgery at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, in Jerusalem, on January 20, 2020.

2 min

Technology & Science

Israel pioneers scarless Adam's apple removal procedure

This revolutionary procedure offers new hope to transgender women

Read time: 2 min.


Hanane Awad speaks to i24NEWS at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, on January 3, 2022.

2 min

Society

Israel: Breakthrough surgery restores blind woman’s vision

Following the operation, Awad was able to see the face of her grandson for the first time

Read time: 2 min.


Anchor Jeff Smith (R) and Dr. Dadi Segal, Panaxia CEO, in the i24NEWS studio in Jaffa, Israel, on December 15, 2021.

2 min

Society

Israel: Medical cannabis, without the smoking health risks

Segal says 'It’s a pure extract, it’s 85 percent THC, and there’s nothing other than cannabinoids inside'

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A healthcare worker conducts a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Covid 19 test on a traveler at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 27, 2021.

3 min

Covid-19

Study: Omicron mild, but more resistant to 2 Pfizer doses

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine offers only 33 percent protection against the omicron Covid variant

Read time: 3 min.


FILE: Tel Aviv University campus in Israel on January 27, 2016.

2 min

Society

Professor from Israel wins award for Alzheimer’s research

Tel Aviv University Professor Illana Gozes says 'This is a great honor for me'

Read time: 2 min.


A medical worker handles blood samples during serological tests for Covid 19 on May 6, 2020 at the Tor Vergata hospital in Rome, Italy.

2 min

Society

Medical AI, made in Israel, prevents blood infection deaths

The AI will be implemented soon at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Read time: 2 min.


People participate in a march organized by Komen for the Cure, the world's largest breast cancer charity, as they walk around Jerusalem's Old City to raise breast cancer awareness on October 28, 2010.

2 min

Society

Israel: Overweight breast cancer study sheds light on disease

Scientists were able to identify an enzyme which worsens breast cancer in overweight patients

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This combination of pictures created on September 11, 2020 shows a Bahraini man waving a national flag (L) in the capital Manama on March 22, 2011, and an Israeli man holding his country's national flag on January 24, 2017.

2 min

Middle East

Bahrain and Israel team up with new medical partnership

The partnership will allow the medical centers from both countries to learn from each other

Read time: 2 min.


A logo is pictured on a wall outside the offices of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in Macclesfield, central England on May 11, 2021.

2 min

Technology & Science

'Unprecedented data' in new AstraZeneca breast cancer drug

Enhertu could become the breast cancer treatment of choice, company representatives hope

Read time: 2 min.


Medical staff member receive their third dose of Covid-19 vaccine at the Shaarei Tsedek hospital in Jerusalem, Israel on August 17, 2021.

2 min

Covid-19

Israeli study shows booster reduces severe infection by 20 times

Research expected to guide FDA decision on approving third Pfizer dose in US

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FILE: A man wearing a face mask walks past a graffiti by artist Marcos Costa, or Spray Cabuloso, at the entrance of the Solar de Unhao favela in Salvador, Brazil, on April 15, 2020.

3 min

International

COVID-19 claims 1 million lives in South America as vaccine rollout sees slow start

Brazil is the second-worst affected country in the world by Covid-19 deaths after the United States

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Le PDG de Pfizer, Albert Bourla, lors d'une visite officielle de la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen au laboratoire pharmaceutique à Puurs, en Belgique, le 23 avril 2021

2 min

International

Oral treatment for COVID-19 available by the end of 2021: Pfizer CEO

Named PF-07321332, the new drug is a protease inhibitor that prevents the virus from replicating in cells

Read time: 2 min.


Ambulances outside the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on March 30, 2020.

2 min

Diplomacy & defense

Israeli, Moroccan children's hospitals to sign cooperation agreement: report

Joint research efforts to focus on pediatric hematology and oncology

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An Israeli doctor at the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel on December 5, 2011.

2 min

Technology & Science

Blind man gains sight with synthetic cornea implant developed by Israeli start-up

The success of the operation is a first step of a worldwide clinical trial, CEO says

Read time: 2 min.


ILLUSTRATIVE - A photo of a syringe and a bottle reading "COVID-19 Vaccine" next to the Pfizer company logo, taken in Paris on November 23, 2020.

2 min

International

'Historic moment': UK approves Pfizer vaccine for rollout from 'next week'

Further regulatory decisions from other countries expected 'in the coming days and weeks'

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An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes with the logo of British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on November 17, 2020.

2 min

International

AstraZeneca to launch retrial of COVID-19 vaccine after admitting 'mistake'

AstraZeneca said that a new trial was needed to verify the efficacy of its COVID-19 treatment

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United Hatzalah workers wear protective clothing as they conduct coronavirus tests at the Wolfson Yeshiva in Jerusalem on August 27, 2020.

2 min

Israel

Israel: 663 new virus cases found over last 24 hours, death toll rises to 2,683

The latest figures bring the total number of cases found in Israel to 320,846

Read time: 2 min.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on September 8, 2020.

4 min

Israel

Netanyahu announces holiday lockdown, closure to start Friday

Under the new directive, the lockdown will take take place on September 18 and last until October 9

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Israeli police seen at the entrance to the East Jerusalem Neighborhood of Beit Hanina, as Israel enforces a lockdown; a night curfew, applied to some 40 cities all over Israel which have been badly affected by the Coronavirus. September 8, 2020.

2 min

Israel

Israel records 3,962 new coronavirus cases, death toll at 1,101

Among the 492 individuals considered in serious condition, 138 are currently on ventilators

Read time: 2 min.


This handout picture released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows Ariane 5 flight VA253 lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on August 15, 2020.

2 min

International

Israel, Italy launch DIDO III medical research satellite into space

Tiny satellite to conduct experiments normally carried out by astronauts

Read time: 2 min.


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