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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 to take his prescribed blood thinner medication, which led to a blood clot in his brain, causing a stroke and…
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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 arrived at Rambam with a special purpose: the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between DC’s Children’s National…
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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 happen and why the treatment will eventually come from a virtual doctor. What is the great challenge of the medical…
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Rambam Healthcare Campus – making a difference
By ALAN ROSENBAUM 06/13/2019 Prof. Rafael (Rafi) Beyar bubbles with enthusiasm about the new developments and leadership at the sprawling hospital campus in Haifa. The former director of Rambam Healthcare Campus, recently retired after 13 years, enthuses, “Rambam is close to my heart, and my associate, Dr. Miki Halberthal, the hospital’s director, is doing a great job.” “One of the major long-term projects that has been completed and is functional in the new campus is…
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From the North with Love to the Children of the South
Israelis living near the Gaza border have been suffering from rocket and mortar shell fire at their communities for years, and must remain on high alert to save lives. Children born into this complex reality are often forced to deal with difficult, stressful scenes in security rooms and bomb shelters with no real ability to help, increasing their sense of helplessness. As part of a program for gifted children, fifth graders from the Nahalim School…
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Rare Surgery Performed on Baby during Birth
When Sima Sanbeto learned that her unborn baby had a respiratory obstruction, she never expected that during the birthing process, it would undergo one of the rarest and most complex surgeries ever conducted at Rambam Health Care Campus. On May 27, 2019, more than twenty doctors, nurses and technicians crowded into the operating room to perform an extremely rare and complex surgery, even for a large regional hospital like Rambam Health Care Campus, where the…
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Rambam’s ‘Swim from the Heart’ Raises Funds for Sudden Cardiac Death
For the fourth year in a row, “Swim From the Heart – Cape Carmel”, an international non-competitive swimming event, took place on Haifa’s beaches on May 24. The swim is a joint initiative between Rambam, the Municipality of Haifa, Shvoong and others, and is dedicated to raising awareness of and mobilizing funding for groundbreaking research for predicting and preventing sudden cardiac death in children and young adults. As in previous years, more than 400 professional…
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Rambam Holds Successful Gala Fundraising Event in London
On May 21, a special fundraising gala event, attended by more than 400 people, was held at London’s Cineworld Empire in Leicester Square, with all income designated for allocation to the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in Rambam’s Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital. The highlight of this red-carpet event was the world pre-premiere of “Rocketman”, which was shown in one of the cinema’s luxurious IMAX theaters. Tickets were sold at three different price points, and VIP ticket holders…
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Rambam Neuroradiologists Improve Stroke Patient Care
Stroke specialists at Rambam are using AI technology for early identification and diagnosis of stroke patients. The platform enables larger stroke centers to be connected to smaller hospitals in order to ensure that these patients can be treated as quickly as possible at the most suitable medical center. Dr. Rotem Sivan-Hoffmann is an interventional neuroradiologist in Rambam Health Care Campus’s Department of Interventional Neuroradiology and the Department of Medical Imaging, a field that deals with…
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Rambam Breakthrough May Lead to Diabetes Cure
Rambam Medical Center is cooperating with Orgenesis, a bio-tech company, to begin testing a new method of cell manipulation that may present a cure for Diabetes. More than 425 million people worldwide have diabetes, and these numbers continue to rise. Orgenesis developed a method to re-program liver beta cells to produce insulin. The first stage of testing will involve taking liver cells from diabetic patients or patients who’ve had their pancreas removed. These cells will…
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Working to Improve Patient Experiences at Rambam
Combining forces: Philips Israel, Rambam Health Care Campus, and the BeWell.il community are working together to improve patients’ hospitalization experiences. Philips, a global leader in health technologies, Rambam Health Care Campus, and the BeWell.il Digital Health Community recently held the Philips Innovation Hackathon under the title “Patient Experience.” The two-day hackathon was held at Philips’ R&D center in Haifa and focused on improving patient hospitalization experiences. Eight teams participated, including engineers and others from Philips,…
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Rambam Doctor Travels to India for Six Days to Perform Surgery
Dr. Tzach Sharoni, a senior plastic surgeon at the Rambam Health Care Campus, who was also the Israeli representative in an international delegation to India, restored smiles to patients who had undergone previously unsuccessful surgeries. Dr. Tzach Sharoni, a senior physician in Rambam’s Department of Plastic Surgery, recently visited Vijayawada, India, as a member of a delegation from Operation Smile, an international voluntary organization that has spent the last 40 years recruiting experienced plastic surgeons…
