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The Word “Lockdown” Needs to Disappear from Our Lexicon
September 12, 2021 – Professor Rafi Beyar, the former General Director of Rambam Health Care Campus, remains deeply committed to quality healthcare. Drawing from his own experience and expertise over the years, he has written an informative and thought-provoking editorial for the daily Israeli business news website “Globes”. A new virus has entered our world
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The Battle against the Coronavirus is a War in Every Sense – We Need to Focus on Both the Frontlines and the Home Front
September 12, 2021 – Dr. Michael Halberthal, Director General of Rambam Health Care Campus, has been tirelessly leading the hospital through the daily challenges of the coronavirus. Below is an editorial he wrote for the Israeli daily newspaper and news website, “Israel Today”. At the beginning of March 2020, the first patient to be diagnosed
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Human Interest Story: Rambam Radiographer Saves Life of Drowning Man
August 29, 2021 – A radiographer employed at Rambam Health Care Campus helped perform CPR on a man who suffered a seizure and almost drowned, saving his life. Walaa Sabbagh, a radiographer at Rambam Health Care Campus for the past four years, was spending the day with her family at Gan HaShlosha (Sahne) National Park,
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Preparations for the New School Year at Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital
The 2021–2022 school year will open as scheduled for hospitalized children at the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital of Rambam Health Care Campus. The hospital’s school is run by the BRACHA Education Center under the direction of Israel’s Ministry of Education August 26, 2021 – At Rambam, ten classes are held for hospitalized children ages 3 to 21, including those children
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First in Israel: Virtual and Augmented Reality for Neurosurgery at Rambam Health Care Campus
August 19, 2021 – Rambam Health Care Campus is the first in Israel to use a unique system with augmented and virtual reality technologies for more accurate neurosurgical procedures. Neurosurgical procedures are performed with meticulous planning, and absolute accuracy is essential to positive outcomes. To that end, Rambam Health Care Campus is the first hospital in Israel
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Possible COVID Breakthrough: Israeli Ministry of Health Approves Extension of Israeli Drug Trial at Rambam Medical Center to Other Israel Hospitals
August 11, 2021 – The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that hospitals will begin treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with a new Israeli drug called “MesenCure“ manufactured by Bonus BioGroup. The decision was made after recent clinical trials with the experimental drug at Rambam, with good results: 14 out of 16 seriously ill COVID-19 patients
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Global Breakthrough: Rambam Physicians Perform Cryotherapy to Remove Superficial Bladder Cancer
August 8, 2021 – Cryotherapy has been performed for the first time in the world to treat superficial bladder cancer in a 60-year-old patient. The minimally invasive procedure represented a collaboration between Rambam Health Care Campus’s Department of Urology led by Professor Gilad Amiel and Dr. Isaac Hoffman, and representatives of Vessi Medical founded by Mr.
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Rambam Participates In Historic Israel-UAE Organ Exchange—First Ever With An Arab State
August 1, 2021 – Rambam Health Care Campus participated in a unique kidney transplant arrangement involving donors and recipients in Israel and the United Arab Emirates. https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-women-receive-kidneys-in-israel-uae-organ-exchange-1st-with-arab-state/ Last Wednesday, at 18:30 it happened – an ambulance arrived with flashing lights from Ben Gurion airport with a kidney for a woman who has been waiting for
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The 2021 Rambam Summit & Gala: Looking Back & Moving Forward
Highlights from the 2021 Rambam Summit & Gala — looking back on the year and ahead to what’s next for Rambam and its American friends.
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Rambam MedTech Ltd. Facilitates Several Medical Research and Innovation Projects
July 18, 2021 – The activities of Rambam MedTech Ltd. have advanced a number of significant medical research and development initiatives conceived by Rambam physician-scientists over the past few months. Patient-driven research and innovation are of vital importance at Rambam Health Care Campus. To enable the transformation of innovative ideas into leading products on the
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Girl Born with Rare Fragile Bone Disorder Learns to Walk
July 11, 2021 – Thanks to doctors in the Pediatric Orthopedics Unit at Rambam Health Care Campus, a young girl diagnosed with a disorder that causes her bones to break easily recently took her very first steps. Adele Ben Haim, a five-year-old girl born with a rare genetic disorder that causes her bones to be
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New Device Allows Rambam Physiotherapists to Treat Bedridden and Unconscious Patients
June 28, 2021 – An innovative new therapy device that helps physiotherapists and medical staff to “physically activate” patients was recently introduced successfully in the Department of Critical Care at Rambam Health Care Campus. Physiotherapists working with patients in Rambam’s Department of Critical Care received a boost recently in the form of a new therapy
