December 12, 2021 – The HIV virus can be transmitted via direct contact between bodily fluids – unprotected sex, drug injections, blood transfusions, and open wounds. It cannot be transmitted through the air, food, drinks, or via regular physical contact. World AIDS Day is marked every year on December 1st. This year, the AIDS Unit…
December 6, 2021 – The Department of Social Work at Rambam Health Care Campus, in collaboration with the Institutional Committee for the Prevention of Violence against Women, launched a campaign to increase awareness of the wave of violence against women. Rambam Health Care Campus recently marked the 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence…
December 1, 2021 – All international courses had been discontinued as a result of the pandemic, but days prior to the discovery of the Omicron variant and the government’s subsequent recent decision to close the borders to non-Israelis, Rambam welcomed international course participants. Shortly before the COVID-19 Omicron variant caused Israel and other countries to…
November 22, 2021 – The Israeli delegation’s objective was to help local Romanian health care teams cope with the high levels of illness caused by the fourth wave of the COVID-19 now engulfing the nation. An Israeli delegation of five physicians headed by Dr. Rami Sagi, Deputy Head of the Hospital Division of the Israeli…
November 18, 2021 – Fibromyalgia—an illness characterized by chronic pain throughout the body, fatigue, and sleep disturbance—is very common, affecting two to eight percent of the population. Researchers in the Pain Medicine Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus led by Director Dr. Simon Vulfsons are working hard to find a cure, and may have found…
