Several of Brazil’s most well-known soccer legends visited Rambam, taking time out of their busy schedule revolving around a friendly “Peace Game” to meet with young Israeli and Palestinian patients in Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital. Former Brazilian soccer players Cafu, Emerson, Aldair, César Sampaio, Amoroso, and Anderson Polga, and Brazilian footvolley player Natalia Guitler—who are…
For the first time, a live hysterectomy was passed live to hundreds of doctors at an international conference. The surgery took place at the Rambam Medical Center, led by Prof. Lior Levenstein using the vNOTES method – an innovative technology that uses the natural openings in the body to perform the surgery. The surgery was…
Jerusalem Post, October 22, 2019, by Alan Rosenbaum Any physician who is engaged in research does not accept things as they are,” says Prof. Yehuda Chowers, director of both the Division of Research at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, and the hospital’s Gastroenterology Institute. “Research is a very central theme in the life of…
A trauma drill concluded a three-phase training project undertaken by Rambam at the request of Shanghai’s Ruijin Hospital. The training also included lectures about medical innovation and research. A delegation from Rambam Health Care Campus recently traveled to Shanghai, China, to participate in the third and final phase of a joint cooperation training project on…
Zakaria was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer at age 16. When chemotherapy and surgery proved ineffectual, Rambam’s doctors discovered a gene mutation and switched to immunotherapy. Two years later, Zakaria no longer has cancer symptoms. September 18, 2019 – Three years ago, after eating a meal with his family, Zakaria started having stomach pains and began…
