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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 largest hospital in Northern Israel, has been operating a unique facility of great security importance for the entire region since…
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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,” with co-authors Leonid Reytman, Roger Sevi, Michael Yohay Stav, Devorah Powell, Yanai Dor, Mickey Dudkiewicz, Fuaz Bayadse, Ahud Sternberg, and…
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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 of Medicine at Stanford, and Professor Rafi Beyar, Director of Rambam, less than a year ago. “At that time, we…
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Israeli doctors save lives of Syrian mother, child
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) –After two weeks hospitalization in Rambam’s maternity ward, a young woman returned home March 7, somewhere in embattled Syria, determined and happy. Two weeks ago, doctors had offered a grim choice – to die at her son’s imminent birth, or to let her son die. After examining the ultrasound results of her uterus, the Syrian doctor explained there were no other possibilities; her placenta had become entangled in the uterine muscles…
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Rambam’s Department of Otolaryngology Noted for Excellence in Israel
Israel’s Ministry of Health recently published data indicating that Rambam’s Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery is excelling in its patient services. Recently published Israel Ministry of Health statistics demonstrate that Rambam’s Department of Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, Throat), which has only an average number of beds compared to other hospitals in Israel, has treated more patients than any other hospital in the country, while maintaining extraordinary levels of patient satisfaction. Up until five years…
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Israeli Researcher on PTSD Gives Presentations in Miami
A researcher in the fields of suicide prevention and post-traumatic stress disorder who was also the private physician of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, was recently in South Florida. Dr. Eyal Fruchter, director of the Division of Mental Health at Rambam Health Care Campus in Israel, recently spoke at locations in Aventura, North Miami Beach and North Miami to introduce the hospital to the local community. “Rambam Hospital is the biggest and central trauma center and hospital…
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The Third Beutler Symposium: The Medical Genomics Revolution
The Third Beutler Symposium, held on February 27 at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, brought together Nobel Laureate, Professor Bruce Beutler, and Israel’s leading genomic medicine researchers. The third scientific conference of the Ernest and Bonnie Beutler Research Program of Excellence in Genomic Medicine is held every two years, with the express aim of presenting research resulting from this prestigious program. Attended by researchers and physicians from Israel and overseas, the keynote speaker…
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Rambam Physician Discovers New Cause of Vision Loss in Diabetics
Professor Shehadeh, Director of Rambam’s Diabetes Institute, found that vision is impaired in hyperglycemic people exposed to certain light wavelengths. Special eyeglasses for diabetic patients will be tested. Diabetes is the leading cause of new vision loss in working-age adults (20-60 years old) worldwide. Israel is at the cutting edge in diabetes research, with the third highest mortality rate from diabetes among countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), especially in the…
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Machines Learn with Rambam Physicians
The Technion and Rambam Health Care Campus hosted a joint conference in February on “Machine Learning in Medicine” Rambam Health Care Campus and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology hosted a joint conference on “Machine Learning in Medicine” in the Spencer Auditorium, located in the Sammy Ofer Tower at Rambam, on Thursday, February 22, 2018. The conference highlighting cooperation between the Technion and Rambam was introduced by Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie, and Rambam director Professor…
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Rambam and the IDF
Over this past weekend, Rambam Medical Center in Haifa released the IDF pilot whose F-16 jet was downed by a Syrian missile. The pilot and his co-pilot were able to eject over Israeli territory, but sustained injuries and were rushed to Rambam. Thankfully, both have fully recovered and the more seriously injured of the two was released a few days ago. That the pilots were taken to Rambam is testimony not only to the excellent…
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World Expert Performs Leg-Saving Surgery on UK Child at Rambam HCC
Last week, 7-year-old Kyra Warrel, from the UK, underwent a successful innovative surgery at Rambam Health Care Campus by visiting surgeon Dr. Dror Paley. The procedure has saved her leg and given her new hope for the future. Kyra Warrel, a 7-year-old girl from the south coast of England suffers from a rare condition called proximal focal femoral deficiency (PFFD), which affects fewer than 1 in 50,000 children globally. The spunky child who adores gymnastics…
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President Rivlin visits injured Israeli pilots in the Rambam Hospital
President Reuven Rivlin paid a visit to the two Israeli airmen who were shot down on Saturday during their mission over Syria and are now receiving medical care at the Haifa Rambam hospital.
