BiondVax Pharmaceuticals – the Israeli company developing a universal flu vaccine – has announced that its universal flu vaccine (M-001) is suited to all six new influenza strains found in recent years in people.
Sami Zangi suffered from essential tremor for 15 years.
The involuntary shaking in his hands was so bad that he could not successfully bring a glass of water to his lips or a pen to piece of paper. In November, treatment withfocused ultrasound beams developed and commercialized by InSightec appears to have cured Zangi.
Israeli doctors hope he will be the first of many to benefit from the technology.
Read more about this amazing new treatment by following the link above!
Israeli-developed exoskeleton for paraplegics is one of TIME magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of the Year 2013. The medical device developed by ARGO Medical Technologies is hailed for the autonomy it gives back to those who need it most.
“Call it an exoskeleton or a bionic suit, but for paraplegics, it’s freedom. This innovative device, developed by a quadriplegic Israeli scientist, relies on sensors that anticipate shifts in the user’s balance and translates them into movements like walking and standing,” writes the magazine about ReWalk.
To read more about this amazing invention, follow the link.
Ambassador-designate Lars Faaborg-Andersen, head of the Delegation of the European Union to Israel, commended Ziv staff for their medical treatment to Syrians injured in their country’s civil war.
“I was deeply impressed by the dedication of the medical staff that is sparing no effort to provide the injured patients, many of them children, with the best possible medical care,” Faaborg-Andersen said in a statement. “This commitment to the welfare of other human beings, regardless of the fact that they belong to an enemy nation, should be a source of pride to all Israelis.”
To read more about the Ambassador’s visit and the second Syrian baby born in an Israeli hospital, follow the link above!
Israeli company’s SomnuSeal mask is more comfortable for patients who can’t tolerate the existing option, and it protects cardiac health too.
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Discover’s SomnuSeal, a unique mask for CPAP machines, is a small, self-adjusting device that fits between lips and teeth like a boxer’s mouth guard. It does not touch the nose, lips or tongue and requires no straps.
Two clinical trials at independent sleep labs in Israel showed that 22 percent of people who have refused to use other CPAP masks were fully compliant with SomnuSeal, which earned the European CE Mark in 2010.
To read more SomnuSeal and how it will help change the lives of millions, follow the link above!
Two Israeli physicians, who set out to masculinize a patient with testosterone therapy, ended up discovering a new genetic mutation and pushing the limits of male fertility.
It all started eight years ago, when a young Israeli man walked into the office of Dr. Karen Tordjman, a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine. His girlfriend (now his wife) convinced him to find out why his genitals were small and heavily scarred.
Tordjman and her Sackler colleague, Dr. Amnon Botchan, discovered in medical records that two of the patient’s uncles had been diagnosed with androgen receptor insensitivity — a rare condition that results in the body under-responding to the androgen hormones that drive male sexual development.
“There are hundreds of mutations that have been reported in the androgen receptor gene,” Tordjman tells ISRAEL21c. The young Israeli, who had served in a Navy commando unit despite his slight build, had a mutation that had not previously been reported.
Instead of following standard protocol, Tordjman set out on a groundbreaking medical journey that today could change the course of treatment for men with the same condition.
“The treatment was counterintuitive,” she says. “We offered treatment not for his future reproductive capabilities but for his appearance. We didn’t guarantee him anything, but we said we’d try.”
Her research, recently published in the journal Andrologia, may, in coming generations, lead to genetic screening for the newly found mutation of the androgen receptor to identify carriers.
To read more about this groundbreaking science, follow the link above!
Earlier this year, actors and support crew took the 12-hour flight from Beijing to Tel Aviv to make the first Chinese feature film in Israel — a romantic comedy shot in locations including Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Dead Sea.
The Tourism Ministry, which facilitated the shoot, predicts the number of Chinese tourists will reach a record 28,000 this year. But ties between these two Asian countries — one with a population of eight million, the other 1.3 billion – go way beyond tourism.
Israeli-Chinese partnerships in business, academia and culture have rapidly grown since the countries established diplomatic relations in 1992.
Chinese companies, academics and investors look to Israel for innovation in medicine, telecom, clean-tech, high-tech, food processing, aviation, biofuel, security and agriculture.
“They believe the Israeli people are very wise and successful since we have done amazing things in just 60 years,” says Dr. Amnon Amit, an Israeli gynecological oncology surgeon who led medical training sessions in a rural Chinese hospital. “They went for many years without any connection to the Western world, and now they want to follow our example of quick success.”