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Castanets and Giving Birth: Flamenco Dancing in the Delivery Room
At the suggestion of her midwife, an expectant mother danced through her labor pains and experienced a smooth delivery. Natalie Taviv, age 35, never lets anything interfere with her dancing, not even labor pains. Following her recent arrival at Rambam Health Care Campus, she was seen dancing the flamenco to the beat of the “Gipsy Kings” even though she was in the late stages of labor. “I love to dance,” explained the young mother. “I…
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Innovating Collaboration on Disaster Preparedness and Lessons Learned from the First Wave of COVID-19
November 12, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected travel worldwide. This has impacted families, business, and medical research collaborations. Digital meetings have become essential for staying in touch. Hence, the annual Stanford Medicine-Rambam Health Care Campus Symposium was held live – online this year on a particularly relevant topic: Disaster Preparedness and Lessons Learned from the First Wave of COVID-19. Rambam Health Care Campus and Stanford Medicine (California, USA) have been holding annual…
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Rambam Surgeons Perform First Surgery of its Kind in Israel: Jaw Restoration using a Shoulder Bone
Surgeons at Rambam Health Care Campus operated for 12 straight hours to restore the jawbone of a man who had undergone a massive resection of a large tumor. Technological innovations and a new treatment modality allowed them to use the patient’s shoulder bone and restore his hope for quality of life. About two years ago, Yossi (not his real name), a resident of Israel’s central region in his 60s, underwent surgery at a hospital near…
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Rambam’s Groundbreaking Research Could Change the Way Physicians Help Premature Babies Breathe
For years, neonatologists worldwide have debated the most effective method of treating the respiratory issues that afflict premature infants. New groundbreaking Israeli research may significantly change the way these problems are addressed. Premature babies, often referred to as “preemies,” are often born with underdeveloped lungs; hence, the reason for their most commonly experienced problem – breathing difficulties. Preemies may need mechanical ventilation to help them breathe, and neonatologists have long been divided regarding the preferred…
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Rambam Presents: Dramatic Improvement in Heart Catheterization Precision
After months of focusing on patients suffering from the deadly coronavirus, Rambam Health Care Campus is now returning to full medical operations. This process includes the acquisition of state-of-the-art medical equipment, like Rambam’s new cardiac catheterization laboratories. At Rambam Health Care Campus, which operates the largest cardiology, cardiac surgery, and pediatric cardiology departments in Northern Israel, it is understood that regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical world needs to move forward, and that many…
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Back Surgery at Rambam: More Precise, with Real-time Images and Less Radiation
The Spinal Column Unit of the Orthopedic Surgery Section at Rambam recently received the most advanced imaging machine of its kind, a next-generation O-arm that allows surgical teams to acquire precise three-dimensional images that dramatically improve their ability to perform delicate and complex spinal column surgeries. Given that there are many fears among the public about spinal column surgery, the arrival of a device that improves the ability of surgeons to do their work is…
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The Rambam Doctor Who Won’t Stop Running: 166 Kilometers in One Night
Some people get tired of driving long distances, but Rambam senior physician Dr. Reuven Ishai ran for 166 consecutive kilometers in one night to raise awareness of the problems of dizziness and loss of balance, and to start collecting donations to establish a special treatment center for these medical problems. Dr. Reuven Ishai is a senior physician in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Rambam Health Care Campus. He holds a specialization in…
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President Rivlin Visits Rambam’s COVID-19 Command Center
The President of the State of Israel, Mr. Reuven Rivlin, visited Rambam Health Care Campus and met with representatives of the hospital’s administration, including Rambam General Director Dr. Michael Halberthal and his deputies, who presented the activities of the hospital’s COVID-19 treatment facility and the challenges involved in operating it. The meeting was also attended by IDF Chief Medical Officer Brigadier General Professor Elon Glassberg and Medical Commander of the Northern Command Colonel Dr. Erez…
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Director of Rambam’s Breast Health Institute Calls on Women to Be Screened for Breast Cancer Despite Pandemic
Dr. Aviad Hoffman, Director of the Breast Health Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus, is gravely concerned that COVID-19 will inflict a heavy medical toll in areas completely unrelated to the virus. As a result, he has issued an urgent public warning to women to be screened for breast cancer and to undergo necessary testing for early detection of the disease. He made this call against the backdrop of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October 1-31,…
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Internationally known Israeli Singer Ishtar Alabina Calls for Donations to Rambam after Father Recovers from COVID-19
Internationally known Israeli singer Ishtar Alabina has been spending a lot of time at the bedside of her father, who was hospitalized with COVID-19 at Rambam Health Care Campus in the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital’s COVID-19 facility. Fortunately, he recovered from the coronavirus, and is now recuperating in the Department of Internal Medicine D, under the direction of Professor Mogher Khamaisi. Ishtar graciously agreed to share her story about her family’s experience at…
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Prime Minister Netanyahu Visits Rambam
Israel’s Prime Minister, MK Benjamin Netanyahu visited Rambam Health Care Campus on October 19, where he met with hospital management and toured the COVID-19 command center, which oversees the activities of the coronavirus departments in the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. Rambam’s General Director Dr. Michael Halberthal presented the hospital’s COVID-19 activities to Prime Minister Netanyahu, explaining that Rambam’s success has been been achieved through, the complete mobilization of all hospital departments, extensive collaboration…
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Gift Drawer Project in Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital Helps Persuade Children to Receive Treatment with a Smile
In three designated drawers under a bed in the patient reception room in the Meri and Sol J. Barer Pediatrics B Department in Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, dozens of small gifts, toys, and games await the children hospitalized in the department, all as part of Rambam Health Care Campus’s sensitive approach to pediatric care. “When the children come to our care, they immediately receive a small gift to make them feel good and to help…
