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Rambam Establishing CAR T-cell Immunotherapy Service for Cancer Treatment
A cutting-edge immunotherapy treatment will soon be offered at Rambam Health Care Campus using genetically engineered T-cells to kill cancer cells. Rambam will be the first and only medical center in Northern Israel to provide this service. September 15, 2019 – Rambam Health Care Campus’s Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation is launching a new
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Rambam Establishes Center for Cannabis Research
Rambam Health Care Campus has opened a cannabis research center, focusing on the role of cannabis in intercellular communication in morbidity situations. September 12, 2019 – Rambam Health Care Campus has established the Medical Cannabis Research and Innovation Center in its Research Division, led by Dr. Igal Louria-Hayon, head of the hospital’s Leukemia Research and Cancer
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Nurse’s Chance Coffee Break Saves Patient’s Life at Rambam Health Care Campus
A 46-year-old Haifa resident’s life was saved, thanks to the temporary work assignment of a Rambam nurse and her chance decision to use a public restroom. Lia Gurevich is a nurse in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rambam Health Care Campus. Like every nurse in the department, she works different shifts and is assigned
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Hospitalized Pediatric Patients Start the School Year in Rambam Classrooms
More than 100 hospitalized children and youth participated in classes on the first day of school in classrooms at Rambam’s Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital. Several new educational components are being introduced this year, including a sailing class for the older teens. September 3, 2019 – The school year in Israel starts on September 1st. While most
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Corindus, Founded by Former Rambam Director Rafi Beyar, Acquired by Siemens Healthineers
Corindus Vascular Robotics is the latest successful initiative to come from Rambam Health Care Campus and the Technion. Earlier this year, Corindus’ technology was used to perform angioplasty and stent placement by a doctor sitting 32 kilometers from the patient. August 26, 2019 Corindus Vascular Robotics, a medtech startup founded by former Rambam Health Care Campus
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Rambam Provides Ultrasound Training for Medical Students Traveling to Africa
As part of their internship, students will fly to Uganda to provide humanitarian assistance in a local hospital after receiving unique ultrasound training at Rambam Health Care Campus. A small group of Israeli medical students recently spent a day at Rambam Health Care Campus to receive intensive ultrasound training, prior to their departure for Uganda
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Rambam Doctors Discover ADHD Can Be Relevant to Cognitive Decline
A scientific article written by Rambam Health Care Campus’ Cognitive Neurology Institute was recently the feature article in Harefuah (“Medicine”), the leading journal published by the Israeli Medical Association. The article addressed the topic of whether attention deficithyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be considered in the diagnosis of cognitive complaints among middle-aged and older individuals. Rambam Health
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Guy Cohen Continues to Inspire Us in his Pursuit to Raise Support and Awareness about SCD
Guy Cohen, a three-time participant in Rambam’s annual Swim From the Heart event and fundraiser for sudden cardiac death, is attempting the final swim of the Triple Crown Open Water. Starting at midnight on July 18th, Israeli open water swimmer Guy Cohen will attempt to swim across California’s Catalina Channel, a distance of 32.5 km/20 miles. This
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Local Archbishop Donates NIS 150,000 to Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital
A delegation led by Father Joseph Mata, Archbishop of the Greek Catholic Church in the Galilee, visited Rambam Health Care Campus. During the course of the visit, delegation members met Rambam Director, Dr. Michael Halberthal, with whom they discussed the hospital’s work in the fields of medicine and research. The delegation also met with the
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Rambam Doctors Perform Eight Brain Catheterizations in One Day
The Brain Catheterization Unit at Rambam Health Care Campus, which is used to performing two or three brain catheterizations each day, faced a challenge recently –eight such procedures in one day. The patients ranged in age from 22 through 89. They suffered from either aneurysms or strokes – including one young man who had forgotten
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Rambam HCC and Children’s National Health System Establish International Collaboration
(June 27, 2019, Haifa, Israel) – A 40-member delegation that included the Mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser, and the CEO of Children’s National Health System, celebrated the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for collaboration with Rambam Health Care Campus and Children’s National. The first official delegation from Washington, DC to visit Israel
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A Person’s Address Predicts his Life Expectancy Better than his Genetics
Calcalist Interview, June 2019 Prof. Lloyd Minor, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Stanford University, told Calcalist that “the emphasis on health should be placed on predicting and preventing rather than healing diseases after their eruption. Professor Minor explains how predicting technological tools will improve patients’ health. Collaboration with Facebook is required for this to
