July 10, 2022 – There is a global increase in the numbers of children suffering from cannabis intoxication or cannabis poisoning. The Israel Poison Information Center at Rambam Health Care Campus is also seeing an alarming increase among Israeli children. Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, derived from the Cannabis plant, is a psychoactive drug that…
July 7, 2022 – Rivkah Bornshtein, an 82-year-old wife, mother, grandmother of 4, and resident of Haifa, is the first woman in Israel to undergo a second, innovative, non-invasive medical procedure to treat tremors caused by Parkinson’s disease – 7 years after the initial procedure. Seven years ago, Rivkah Bornshtein was among the first patients at Rambam…
July 3, 2022 – Last month, on a recent family outing, eight-year-old Harel Goldstein suffered a rare, sudden stroke caused by a clot in his brain stem. Rambam Health Care Campus specialists felt that his chances of recovery were small. “We were in shock; we did not believe that Harel would recover without permanent brain…
June 28, 2022 – Rambam Health Care Campus treated the first-ever prostate cancer patient with innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy – Alpha DaRT developed by Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. The first patient at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam HCC) in Haifa, Israel was treated in a feasibility study with the Alpha DaRT. Alpha DaRT is a…
June 26, 2022 – Scientists from Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and their European colleagues have found a way to rejuvenate human skin and other organs. After two decades of research a study titled “Human organ rejuvenation by VEGF-A: Lessons from the skin” conducted by Dr. Aviad Keren, Dr. Yaniv Keren,…
