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Rambam Participates in 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
December 6, 2021 – The Department of Social Work at Rambam Health Care Campus, in collaboration with the Institutional Committee for the Prevention of Violence against Women, launched a campaign to increase awareness of the wave of violence against women. Rambam Health Care Campus recently marked the 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with a powerful campaign organized by the Department of Social Work, in cooperation with the Institutional Committee for…
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Prior to Recent Border Closing Due to Omicron, Rambam Held First International Course Since Pandemic Began
December 1, 2021 – All international courses had been discontinued as a result of the pandemic, but days prior to the discovery of the Omicron variant and the government’s subsequent recent decision to close the borders to non-Israelis, Rambam welcomed international course participants. Shortly before the COVID-19 Omicron variant caused Israel and other countries to restrict entry of non-citizens, Rambam hosted the first course of its kind during the COVID-19 pandemic, on the subject of…
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Israeli Medical Delegation Visits Romania to Help with COVID-19
November 22, 2021 – The Israeli delegation’s objective was to help local Romanian health care teams cope with the high levels of illness caused by the fourth wave of the COVID-19 now engulfing the nation. An Israeli delegation of five physicians headed by Dr. Rami Sagi, Deputy Head of the Hospital Division of the Israeli Ministry of Health, traveled to Bucharest, Romania recently at the invitation of Israel’s Ambassador to Romania, David Saranga. Dr. Eyal…
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Rambam Researchers Racing Towards Fibromyalgia Cure
November 18, 2021 – Fibromyalgia—an illness characterized by chronic pain throughout the body, fatigue, and sleep disturbance—is very common, affecting two to eight percent of the population. Researchers in the Pain Medicine Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus led by Director Dr. Simon Vulfsons are working hard to find a cure, and may have found a solution in the most unlikely of places. Researchers have discovered that microbiome—microorganisms found in the body—is connected to a…
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Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz Visits Rambam
November 14, 2021 – “6,000 people work here and give their all, even under difficult conditions. I heard a great deal of praise about the staff from dozens of patients who approached me,” shared Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz on his Facebook page. Israel’s Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz, visited Rambam Health Care Campus earlier this week for an extensive working visit. During the course of the visit, Rambam General Director Dr. Michael Halberthal provided the…
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Network Radiation: The Israeli Breakthrough to Eradicate Malignant Tumors
November 4, 2021 – Three Israeli patients were the first to participate in a study to achieve what has never before been possible: the eradication of inoperable cancer tumors. Researchers at Rambam Health Care Campus created a network-based radiation program using a targeted methodology that has succeeded to eradicate tumors in problematic and difficult to approach locations within the body. For the first time in Israel, doctors in Rambam’s Radiation Unit in the Division of…
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Young Girl Saved by Bone Marrow Donation from Her Father’s Close Friend
November 1, 2021 – Following a diagnosis of leukemia, 11-year-old Tulin Hamdan needed a bone marrow donation to get well. Ta’ar Katima had joined the bone marrow registry, and was found to be a suitable match. Eleven-year-old Tulin received a bone marrow donation from Ta’ar Katima, the close friend of her father, Samer Hamdan. What makes this story even more unusual is the fact that both men are from the same locality – the Druze…
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Rambam Signs Agreement with Biomica for Clinical Trial of Microbiome-based Immuno-oncology Drug
October 28, 2021 – Biomica’s immuno-oncology program is based on the premise that the gut microbiome affects the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy. The study is pending approval by Israel’s Ministry of Health. Rambam Health Care Campus recently signed a clinical trial agreement with Evogene Ltd. subsidiary Biomica Ltd., an emerging biopharmaceutical company developing innovative microbiome-based therapeutics for initiating a first in-human proof-of-concept (POC) for BMC128, Biomica’s drug candidate. The study is designed primarily to evaluate…
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Will Rambam Solve Israel’s Doctor Shortage?
October 24, 2021 – To date, approximately 700 immigrant physicians who participated in a training program at Rambam Health Care Campus have successfully integrated into the Israeli healthcare system, and this year’s class is the largest so far. Their licensing exam success rate is higher than that of most Israeli students who studied abroad, and this year stood at 88.5 percent. On Thursday October 21, a ceremony was held at Rambam Health Care Campus in…
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Rambam Doctors Reconstruct IDF Officer’s Shattered Jaw
October 18, 2021 – Thanks to advanced, innovative treatment, doctors at Rambam Health Care Campus were able to reconstruct the shattered jaw of an IDF officer who was seriously wounded during a firefight. Last month, Captain “D”, a company commander from the elite Duvdevan unit, was injured during an encounter with terrorists near Jereconstnin, suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the lower abdomen, and one bullet hit D’s left lower jaw, resulting in multiple facial fractures.…
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Using New Technology, Rambam Doctors Transplant Two Corneas into Four Different Donors
October 14, 2021 – Cornea replacement may be necessary in cases where this delicate tissue has been damaged. However, patients often find themselves in a prolonged queue for a cornea donation. Using new, state-of-the-art equipment developed by Moria Ophthalmic Instruments, doctors in the Department of Ophthalmology at Rambam Health Care Campus recently split a donor’s donation of two corneas, enabling them to save the vision of four people. Until a few years ago, cornea replacements…
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Rambam Plays Crucial Role in International Cross-kidney Transplant Operation Involving Israel and the Czech Republic
October 7, 2021 – According to Israel’s National Transplant Center, when altruistic donors register directly and join the organ exchange database, a chain of matches is created, enabling the donor to essentially save many lives. In a complicated and meticulously timed campaign that included exchanging coolers containing kidneys at the airport in the Czech Republic, as well as a 21-hour marathon of surgeries at Rambam Health Care Campus, two residents of Northern Israel have been given…
