Haifa’s Tower of Medical Power
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Professor Shehadeh, Director of Rambam’s Diabetes Institute, found that vision is impaired in hyperglycemic people exposed to certain light wavelengths. Special eyeglasses for diabetic patients will be tested. Diabetes is the leading cause of new vision loss in working-age adults (20-60 years old) worldwide. Israel is at the cutting edge in diabetes research, with the…
June 3, 2021 – A recently opened clinic at Rambam helps alleviate the need for Cesarean sections in pregnancies where the baby is in either breech or bottom first position. In approximately 3% of all pregnancies, the unborn baby is in either a bottom first or breech position. Frequently, such pregnancies end in a Cesarean…
July 9, 2026 – IDF Captain (Res.) Malachi Moundani was recently seriously wounded in combat in Southern Lebanon. Having suffered multiple penetrating injuries, Moundani was rushed to Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in critical condition. After the Rambam medical team stabilized Moudani, 26, from moshav Neve in the Gaza envelope, image testing revealed that shrapnel…
September 22, 2024 – Since last night, Hezbollah has fired hundreds of missiles into Northern Israel. Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam), the city of Haifa, and the communities served by the hospital, are under attack. The injured are being treated in the hospital’s fortified emergency room. In parallel, 1,000 patients will have been moved into…
January 26, 2023 – In a groundbreaking medical achievement, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel successfully performed the world’s first pancreatic surgery on a pregnant woman to treat life-threatening hypoglycemia. The patient who was six months pregnant, underwent a series of unprecedented surgical procedures that saved her life and the life of her…
November 28, 2023 – Dr. Arik Schechter, an attending physician in the Department of Urology at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel has been serving in the IDF deep inside Gaza since the outbreak of the Swords of Iron War. With three sons and a son-in-law also serving, perhaps it should not have…