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New Service from Rambam’s Clinical Immunology Unit: COVID-19 Vaccination for Allergy Sufferers
March 7, 2021 – A new initiative helps allergy sufferers overcome the fear of vaccinations due to the lack of knowledge regarding possible allergic reactions. Many people in the general population in Israel suffer from allergic reactions that result from the exposure to medications, remedies, food, and even insect bites. For some individuals, a severe and life-threatening allergic reaction may develop. Despite access to a vaccine against COVID-19, some of these people fear that the vaccination may cause an acute allergic reaction. This fear prevents them…
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Rambam Opens Special Clinic For Identical Twin Pregnancies
February 28, 2021 – A new clinic recently inaugurated at Rambam Health Care Campus, will serve as a one-stop-shop for all the unique monitoring and testing needed by women pregnant with twins. Being pregnant with twins is exciting and special, but at the same time, it requires more frequent, expert monitoring of fetal development that is far more extensive than for regular pregnancies. In recent years, more and more women are becoming pregnant with multiples…
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Rare Congenital Heart Defect Successfully Treated at Rambam
February 15, 2021 – A patient with a rare congenital heart defect that affects several members of her family was successfully treated at Rambam Health Care Campus. This rare defect occurs in approximately one in 1,000 births. A young woman in her 20s from Northern Israel became the third member of her family to undergo a medical procedure to repair a hole in the wall separating the two upper chambers in her heart. The young…
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Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital Holds First Tumor Board with Morocco’s Rabat Children’s Hospital
February 11, 2021 – Doctors from Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital and Rabat Children’s Hospital met virtually for the first time to share knowledge and experience, forging professional ties to facilitate collaboration between the two pediatric medical facilities. For the first time ever, physicians from Rambam Health Care Campus’s Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital and Rabat Children’s Hospital conducted a joint tumor board meeting to discuss individual pediatric cancer cases and share knowledge. The meeting was held…
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Rambam Awarded Prize for Development that Saves 4,000 Staff Hours Each Year
February 7, 2021 – Rambam Health Care Campus recently won an award for logistics in health systems from the Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Health. The second-place award was issued by the National Council for Logistics in Health Systems for 2019 and presented to the Rambam team for implementing an application that helps nursing and medical staff maintain the availability and high quality of equipment for resuscitation. Ministry of Health procedures require medical staff to…
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Rambam Among First Worldwide to Use Pioneering Artificial Skin Technology to Treat Burn Patients
February 3, 2021 – Rambam Health Care Campus is one of the first institutions in the world to use the groundbreaking portable electrospinning wound treatment system. Doctors at Rambam have so far treated dozens of patients suffering from a variety of burns ranging in size and severity. Ilan S., age 42, was brought to Rambam Health Care Campus after suffering second- and third-degree burns to his upper body when a pressurized hot water tank exploded.…
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Successful Surgery at Rambam Enables Boy to Walk for the First Time
A nine-year-old boy born with a rare genetic defect that left him unable to move his joints is now learning to walk, following a successful surgery performed by doctors in the Pediatric Orthopedics Unit at Rambam Health Care Campus. January 28, 2021 – Nine-year-old Michael was born in Uzbekistan with a rare genetic disorder called Arthrogryposis, which is characterized by joint stiffness and muscle weakness throughout the body. Michael suffers from one of the more painful…
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New at Rambam: Clinic for Treating Narrowing Carotid Arteries and Stroke Prevention
January 17, 2021 – A new clinic is the first of its kind in Northern Israel, providing treatment for narrowing carotid arteries and stroke prevention that was, until now, unavailable in this part of the country. Rambam Health Care Campus has inaugurated a clinic for treating narrowing of the carotid arteries and stroke prevention, which operates within the framework of the hospital’s Stroke and Cognition Institute. This is a common medical condition estimated to cause…
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Rambam Joins Efforts to Develop Israeli COVID-19 Vaccine
January 10, 2020 – Israel currently has the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the world, and more than 4,000 of Rambam’s approximately 5,300 employees have already received the first dose of Pfizer vaccines. Last week, the Clinical Trials Unit at Rambam Health Care Campus (in Rambam’s Research & Development Unit), headed by Dr. Avivit Peer, joined a group of hospitals and institutions taking part in what is defined as “Phase 2” of the Israel Institute…
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Celebrating the Lives of Young Cancer Survivors
Despite the pandemic, Haifa is celebrating the annual Holiday of Holidays – honoring religious celebrations that fall in December. In conjunction with these celebrations, Rambam Health Care Campus recently hosted the Kites of Hope event for survivors of pediatric cancer, who got to make their own kites and decorate them with messages of hope. “Larger Than Life” (an association that supports families of children with cancer) has initiated an exciting event—Kites of Hope—in collaboration with…
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Within Days: Two Rare Strokes Treated at Rambam
Rambam Health Care Campus has gained a great deal of experience in treating strokes, with a focus on those that require invasive intervention through cerebral catheterization. However, a phenomenon presented at Rambam in recent days managed to surprise the doctors, especially in light of the fact that not one, but two such patients were rushed to Rambam within two days. The phenomenon is so rare that the Director of Rambam’s Department of Vascular Surgery and…
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Decreased Number of New Patients at Rambam’s AIDS Institute
Recent years have seen a trend of declining numbers of new HIV diagnoses. However, there has been a concomitant increase in alarming symptoms related to this high-risk group. December 1, 2020 marked the observance of World AIDS Day, which highlights the international battle against HIV, shows support for people living with AIDS, and commemorates those who were lost to this devastating illness. Despite this year’s widespread increase in morbidity due to the coronavirus pandemic, the…
