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Rambam Expands International Relationships
March 30, 2023 – Following multiple medical-training missions in Ethiopia, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, has signed an agreement of cooperation with St. Peter’s Specialized Hospital (St. Peter’s) in Addis Ababa. Rambam’s medical-training missions in Addis Ababa significantly impact the developing country’s healthcare services. Over the years, Rambam’s expert physicians have trained Ethiopian medical teams to perform complex head and neck surgeries, correct orthopedic birth defects, and repair craniofacial deformities such as…
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First Hugs: Rambam Volunteers Provide Warmth and Love to Abandoned Babies
March 27, 2023 – Every year, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, treats more than 20 abandoned babies—those who are hospitalized for long periods of time with no relative to care for them, in the neonatal, intensive care, oncology and other hospital wards. These babies suffer from severe diseases, birth defects or injuries. Many have already undergone multiple surgeries in their brief lives, and they are often sedated and connected to mechanical ventilators,…
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36 New Beds to Make Rambam‘s Neurology Section the Largest of Its Kind in Israel
March 24, 2023 – The country wide reality of a shortage in hospital beds is placing enormous pressure on Israel’s public healthcare system. In a dramatic move, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, has increased its number of inpatient beds by three-and-a-half percent. Rambam is the tertiary referral center for 12 regional hospitals. The largest hospital in Northern Israel, it serves over two million residents. It was a moment of great pride and…
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Against All Odds: CAR-T Therapy at Rambam Saves Desperate Cancer Patient
March 23, 2023 – Critically ill in St. Petersburg, Russia, 20-year-old Kalim Agrakov was not responding to cancer treatment. However, a breakthrough procedure offered at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, saved his life. Kalim Agrakov was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer – acute lymphoblastic leukemia. His doctors at a hospital in St. Petersburg had run out of effective treatment options. Telling him that he only had a few months to…
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Rambam Establishes National, Virtual Support Clinic for Treating Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia
March 13, 2023 – Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel recently opened a much-needed virtual clinic for treating the behavioral symptoms of dementia to provide rapid and vital support for patients and their caregivers. Many diseases cause dementia, the most common of which is Alzheimer’s disease, caused by the abnormal build-up of proteins in and around the brain cells. Affecting behavior and cognition, the onset of dementia is gradual. It manifests in many…
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Rambam Treats Three Members of Elite Counter-terrorism Unit Following Clashes in West Bank
March 8: Three members of Israel’s elite national counter-terrorism unit, “Yamam” were wounded in clashes in the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The wounded were evacuated to Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, for treatment. Dr. Hany Bahouth, Rambam’s director, Division of Emergency Medicine & Trauma, comments, “One member of the elite force was evacuated by helicopter to Rambam and his condition is reported to be moderate. The…
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A Revolutionary Health App Set to Transform Patient Care at Rambam
March 6, 2023 – Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, and Synch join forces and launch a groundbreaking smart 5G network and network-integrated application for the healthcare industry. With support and funding from the Israel Innovation Authority together with the Ministry of Communications and partners, Rambam and Synch, an Elbit systems project, have launched a groundbreaking smart 5G network and network-integrated application for the healthcare industry. The technology converts cellphones into a ‘walkie-talkie’…
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Rambam Experts Participate in Trauma Training in India
March 2, 2023 – A team from the Teaching Center for Trauma, Emergency, and Mass Casualty Situations (MCS) at Rambam Health Care Campus recently traveled to India to help train local healthcare and administrative personnel. The Institute of Medical Science at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi, India, hosted a three-day Indo-Israel Trauma Course & Mass Casualty Scenario (MCS) Workshop at the BHU Trauma Center from February 24–26, 2023. This event is the second of its…
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Turning Breast Cancer Around
February 20, 2023 – A mutated breast cancer gene (BRCA) increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Understanding and managing the gene and resulting cancers was the focus of a successful conference entitled: ‘360 Degrees on BRCA’, hosted at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. All people have BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. However, mutated BRCA genes may be inherited from either parent. If inherited, their presence increases…
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Grieving Widow Donates Life-saving Defibrillators
February 23, 2023 – Just a few short months after the death of her husband, Ilana Siman-Tov Doodles, CPR head nurse and coordinator at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, was determined to do something for the community. She mobilized members of her family who arranged the donation of ten automatic CPR defibrillators. Ilana, a resident of Hoshaya, a religious community settlement north of Haifa, was determined to honor her late husband, Baruch,…
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Quick, Accurate Diagnosis of Life-threatening Diseases
February 16, 2023 – The Neuromuscular Disease Clinic and Clinical Electrophysiology in the Department of Neurology at Rambam Health Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, recently inaugurated a testing service for quick and accurate diagnosis of life-threatening neuro-immunological diseases. Myasthenia gravis (a chronic autoimmune, neuromuscular disease) and neuritis (an inflammatory muscle disease) are life-threatening conditions. However, accurate and rapid diagnosis is now possible at Rambam. Treating neuroimmunological diseases is a significant and growing focus at Rambam. A…
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From Battlefield Injury to Rambam Heart Surgeon
February 13, 2023 – Twenty years ago, Roi Glam and three other Israeli soldiers were wounded by gunfire during a clash in the West Bank town of Jenin. Today Glam is an attending physician in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel – the hospital that saved his life. In 2003, after several heavy clashes, four soldiers from the Golani Brigade (an elite Israel Defense Force infantry brigade),…
