While a Rambam doctor works in Central America at the site of the catastrophic volcano eruption, dozens of senior officials from around the world are learning how to cope with disasters at the Haifa hospital. Dr. Eyal Fuchs, a senior physician in the Lung Institute at Rambam left for Central America last weekend as part…
Rambam placed first in 2017 for obtaining funds for clinical trials investments from pharmaceutical companies. In this case, being first holds out promise of new discovery benefitting patients worldwide. A 2017 report on clinical studies by the Israeli Ministry of Health noted that investments by pharmaceutical companies for clinical trials in Israeli hospitals are increasing….
Bat-El Eden Shabtai, a young Israeli living in the USA, celebrated her 20th birthday in an unusual place, Rambam’s neonatal ICU. The reason? An emotional meeting with those who saved her life when she was only a few hours old. The Department of Neonatology and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Ruth Rappaport…
Ready for any scenario Rambam Inaugurates the Command Center in the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital In the shadow of Israel’s ongoing security situation, the Command Center was inaugurated yesterday (May 7), thanks to $1 million from The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews headed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. Rambam Health Care Campus, the…
The Maimonides Best Published Original Research Prize, an initiative of Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, was awarded for a study that will greatly benefit patients undergoing knee replacement surgery. On March 19, 2018, the first prize was granted to Dr. Anatoli Stav for his manuscript entitled “Femoral versus Multiple Nerve Blocks for Analgesia after Total Knee Arthroplasty,”…
