May 14, 2026 — Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology recently hosted the T2MED Hackathon, a 48-hour event during which medical students, engineers, and scientists worked together on practical solutions to real clinical challenges. The opening event of the annual medical innovation hackathon of the Ruth and Bruce…
May 10, 2026 – A woman who suffered from three life-threatening autoimmune diseases returned to an almost normal life after cell therapy apparently led to a “reset” of her immune system. Chimeric Antigen Receptor T‑cell (CAR‑T) therapy, a breakthrough treatment that has already transformed outcomes for patients with certain blood cancers, now shows significant potential in…
May 7, 2026 – In some gastrointestinal and pancreatic cancers, the challenge is not reaching the suspicious area, but collecting enough cells to know whether cancer is present. Professor Iyad Khamaysi at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam), working alongside scientists from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, have developed an innovative solution. Physicians often…
May 5, 2026 – Nine-year-old Talia Cohen has known for years that she wants to help bring babies into the world. Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) gave her a rare, age-appropriate glimpse into the profession she already dreams of joining. Talia Cohen is already certain about her chosen profession and is pursuing that dream with…
April 30, 2026 – Until now, many forms of severe inherited hearing loss have been managed with assistive devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. Today, a first-of-its-kind gene therapy may offer new hope for patients with a rare mutation in the OTOF gene, which plays an essential role in transmitting sound signals from…
