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Remarkable Rambam, The Jerusalem Report July 2018
Israel REMARKABLE RAMBAM An underground hospital in Haifa is ready for anything By Linda Gradstein THE JERUSALEM REPORT JULY 23, 2018 IT LOOKS like any other upscale parking garage if a bit cleaner than most. But this parking garage can become an underground hospital that can hold more than 1,700 patients and is safe from
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Only Clinic North of Tel Aviv for BRCA Gene Carriers Opens at Rambam
A new women’s clinic has opened at Rambam, providing BRCA1/2 carriers with access to specialists and comprehensive follow-up – all under one roof. The clinic meets a critical need as it is the only such facility north of Tel Aviv. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in Israel and the Western world. Women with
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A Lesson in Epilepsy
A special school event in Haifa, led by senior physicians from Rambam Health Care Campus, focused on raising awareness of epilepsy and educating children so as to remove their misconceptions and fears related to this condition. Children at the epilepsy event with the Rambam team at the Yizraelia school in Haifa. (L-R): Yael Safran, Laura Bahagi, Dr.
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Largest Hospital in Northern Israel Prepares for War
The Scenario: Faced with the threat of missile attacks, Rambam Health Care Campus, Northern Israel’s largest hospital will have to move underground. Care Campus with the scenario of a missile attack on the Haifa area, forcing the only referral hospital in the north to transfer operations to the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. This
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Live from Rambam’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
The 19th Horizons in Interventional Cardiology conference at Rambam furthered the anticipation for completion of the new Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital. Live cardiac catheterization procedures were broadcast and discussed. Against the background of large investments by pharmaceutical companies in medical research, construction of the new Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital at Rambam Health Care Campus, and with
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Local Experience—International Solution
While a Rambam doctor works in Central America at the site of the catastrophic volcano eruption, dozens of senior officials from around the world are learning how to cope with disasters at the Haifa hospital. Dr. Eyal Fuchs, a senior physician in the Lung Institute at Rambam left for Central America last weekend as part
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Being First in Research is Mandatory
Rambam placed first in 2017 for obtaining funds for clinical trials investments from pharmaceutical companies. In this case, being first holds out promise of new discovery benefitting patients worldwide. A 2017 report on clinical studies by the Israeli Ministry of Health noted that investments by pharmaceutical companies for clinical trials in Israeli hospitals are increasing.
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Born in Critical Condition, Bat-El Meets Rambam Team that Saved Her
Bat-El Eden Shabtai, a young Israeli living in the USA, celebrated her 20th birthday in an unusual place, Rambam’s neonatal ICU. The reason? An emotional meeting with those who saved her life when she was only a few hours old. The Department of Neonatology and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Ruth Rappaport
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Rambam Innovation Award
The Rambam Innovation Award is a joint initiative between the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) and American Friends of Rambam Medical Center. During the annual CIJE Innovation Day, a Jewish high school competition in the New York tri-state area, students were challenged to create a project that would correlate to Rambam’s work in
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Rambam Inaugurates the Command Center in the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital
Ready for any scenario Rambam Inaugurates the Command Center in the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital In the shadow of Israel’s ongoing security situation, the Command Center was inaugurated yesterday (May 7), thanks to $1 million from The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews headed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. Rambam Health Care Campus, the
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2017 Maimonides Best Published Original Research Prize
The Maimonides Best Published Original Research Prize, an initiative of Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, was awarded for a study that will greatly benefit patients undergoing knee replacement surgery. On March 19, 2018, the first prize was granted to Dr. Anatoli Stav for his manuscript entitled “Femoral versus Multiple Nerve Blocks for Analgesia after Total Knee Arthroplasty,”
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Rambam & Stanford Medicine Conclude Joint Future of Medicine Symposium
Stanford Medicine and Rambam Health Care Campus have just concluded the first joint Symposium on Planning for the Next Generation, paving the way for possible collaboration and strategic cooperation relating to the future of medicine. The concept for the Symposium and mutual areas of collaboration was birthed via discussions between Professor Lloyd Minor, the Dean
