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Rambam Patient is Saved Against All Odds
May 18, 2023 – Sometimes doctors and medical professionals are able to save patients’ lives against all odds. These cases are a testament to their hard work, dedication, and skill. In a story spanning 50 years, a patient at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, was recently saved against all odds. Israel, the start-up nation, is globally renowned for innovation, groundbreaking research, and its application in multiple fields, including medicine. The result is many…
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Emergency Preparedness: Collaborative Agreement Signed Between Rambam and the City of San Francisco
May 11, 2023 – Today, in an exciting and historical meeting, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, signed a collaborative agreement with its sister city – San Francisco, USA. Haifa and San Francisco have been sister cities since 1973, and The San Francisco-Haifa Sister City Committee has visited Haifa several times since then. Today, a 30-person delegation from San Francisco led by the city’s mayor, the Honorable London Breed, visited Rambam. The purpose…
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Ringworm on the Increase: Rambam Joint Study
May 11, 2023 – Ringworm, so-called due to one of its symptoms, a circular ring-shaped rash that causes redness and itching, is on the increase. Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam), in Haifa, Israel, is part of a collaborative research effort to tackle this phenomenon. Ringworm is a fungal infection that thrives in warm and human environments, affects the skin, nails, and scalp, and is highly contagious. Particularly prevalent in the 1950s, it has now reappeared.…
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Rambam-Technion Hackathon: “Doing Good”
May 8, 2023 – Developing technological solutions to issues encountered by patients in pediatric hospitals is challenging. Solving real problems, addressing social issues, and improving quality of life was the purpose of the recent “Doing Good” CS Hackathon, held at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in close cooperation with Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel. The Doing Good Hackathon saw 50 mentors working with 130 students to brainstorm and discuss current challenges in…
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Life-changing Treatment for Pediatric Patients with Growth Disorder now at Rambam
May 4, 2023 – A life-changing treatment for children with Schmid type of metaphyseal chondrodysplasia (SMCD) – a rare, genetic condition resulting in stunted growth and orthopedic deformities, is now being offered at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel. Professor Mark Eidelman, director of the Pediatric Orthopedics Unit in the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital at Rambam, is implementing a new surgical treatment for children with SMCD, a rare inherited disorder characterized by short…
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Rambam Performs Novel Weight Loss Study via Social Media
April 27, 2023 – Dr. Irit Hochberg, acting director of the Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam), in Haifa, Israel, recently led a novel weight-lost study using data collected on social media. We all want to look our best, and mostly, we are willing to put in the effort. Weight Watchers, Ketogenic, Paleo, Atkins, the grapefruit diet, the egg diet, and calorie-counting are just some of the many well-known weight…
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Rambam Physician Organizes International Cancer Conference
May 1, 2023 – Professor Irit Ben-Aharon, director of the Division of Oncology at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, organized a globally-renowned, annual cancer-research conference which took place in Tel Aviv from April 19–21. The Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer Group of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) is one of the world’s most influential associations in cancer research. They aim to develop protocols concerning different aspects of gastrointestinal (GI)…
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Rambam Physician Honored to Participate at Israel’s 75th National Independence Day Celebration
April 25, 2023 – Dr. Khetam Hussein, Director of the Infection Control Service at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam), in Haifa, Israel, has been chosen to light one of 12 torches in the country’s official Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem on April 25, 2023. Dr. Khetam Hussein has an impressive list of qualifications, appointments, national and international accomplishments, and accolades. Originally, from the Druze village, Rama, she established and now heads Rambam’s Infection Control Unit,…
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Couple Marry at Rambam ICU so Mom Can Attend
April 20, 2023 – Staff of Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, helped a couple marry in the presence of the bride’s mother, a critically ill hospital patient. Maor Charney (32), a Haifa resident, and her fiancée, Nissan Yehezkiel, had been planning their dream wedding for months. The wedding ceremony was set for August 2023. However, Charney’s mother, Zippora (73), was unexpectedly hospitalized in Rambam’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Her condition was…
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Holocaust Memorial – Rambam Mission
For the First Time a Rambam Delegation Participates in “The March of the Living” – Teaching us About the Sanctity of Life and the Need for Mutual Respect The first of its kind, a delegation from Rambam Healthcare Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, will participate in the “March of the Living” in Poland; Jews, Muslims, and Christians, doctors, nurses, housekeeping staff, and management, unite in shared values. Also reported in the Times of Israel, a…
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Phone’s Life-saving Role for Rambam’s First Shock-Trauma ICU Patient
April 17, 2023 – After being shot at close range, 37-year-old Yoram* was rushed to the Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein Z” L Shock Trauma Room at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel. The doctors found that Yoram’s mobile phone had incidentally saved him from serious injury. Yoram, a resident of Northern Israel, had been shot several times. While receiving emergency treatment in Rambam’s Shock Trauma Room, his attending physician noticed Yoram’s mobile phone in…
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Another World First: Rambam–Technion Collaboration Develops a Biological Defibrillator for Cardiac Arrhythmias
April 13, 2023 – A research collaboration between Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), both in Haifa, Israel, has successfully used genetic engineering to treat cardiac arrhythmias. Marking a world first, Rambam’s physician scientists have collaborated with Technion researchers to develop a bioengineered receptor that initiates a biological process to regulate the heart’s electrical activity. Theoretically, the patient will be able to activate the receptor by taking a controlled…
