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This week on November 8, 2022 Americans will vote. The franchise is the hallmark of democracy, so sadly unavailable to billions throughout the word. Last week, Israelis held elections and Michel Ordman highlights two wonderful stories about the results and the participation.
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He voted in every election. Yossi Barash, 94, has never missed a chance to cast his ballot since Israel’s 1948 inception. Barash was born in Tel Aviv in 1927 and now lives in Kfar Yehoshua. He voted in rain, storms and intense heat and never prioritized vacation plans over voting. He says voting is the most important civic duty. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/sjo31hseo
The most democratic country. The latest Israeli elections revealed some interesting facts. Israel is now first in the world in terms of frequency of elections since 1996. Voter turnout was 71% – the most since 1999. Voters had the choice of 39 separate parties. https://unitedwithisrael.org/11-surprising-figures-about-todays-israeli-election/
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Israel’s first lymph node transplant. For the first time in Israel, surgeons at Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Poriya in Tiberias have performed lymph node transplant surgery. They used lymph nodes from the abdomen of a 34-year-old woman suffering from the lack of a lymphatic system in her leg that caused it to swell hugely.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-720370
HBOT and autism. A new Tel Aviv University study showed that Pressure chamber therapy (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy – HBOT) significantly improved social skills in animal models of autism. It also reduced neuroinflammation, which is known to be associated with autism.
https://neurosciencenews.com/pressure-chamber-asd-21737/ https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/19/11077
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36232395/
Israeli cancer detection expands across France. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s Ibex Medical has expanded its partnership with France’s Medipath (see here previously) to cover cancer analysis of multiple tissue types at more of Medipath’s 30 labs. Medipath provides pathology services to 250+ hospitals and clinics across France.
https://ibex-ai.com/medipath-ai-expansion/
10,000+ implants. Israel’s Ossio (see here previously) has reported that orthopedic surgeons have implanted more than 10,000 Ossiofiber implants since their introduction in 2019. Ossio’s biofriendly Ossiofiber, and intelligent bone regeneration technology are designed to solve the shortcomings of conventional metal implants.
https://www.massdevice.com/ossio-closes-38-5m-series-c/ https://www.ourcrowd.com/companies/ossio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvZsgpgfW7s
Twin sisters develop metabolism device. (TY UWI) Israeli twin sisters Merav and Michal Mor, both PhD graduates, were training for an Ironman triathlon and needed to measure their metabolic rate. No device existed, so they invented their own and founded Israeli startup Lumen (see here previously).
https://www.israel21c.org/how-to-hack-your-metabolism-and-improve-your-health/
https://www.lumen.me/home-research
Israeli global medi-tech (TY Louise) A recent Shanghai expo has revealed two Israeli medical technology start-ups that haven’t previously been reported in this newsletter. They are Vitalerter (biosensor care protection), and RuiLuo Technology, part of Israel’s Neurotech Solutions (ADHD diagnosis and treatment).
https://ischam.glueup.cn/event/chinese-investments-in-israeli-medical-tech-33640/
https://www.vitalerter.com/ https://www.neurotech-solutions.com/
Newborn saved in Herzliya mall. Volunteer EMTs from United Hatzalah revived a 3-week-old baby girl who suffered cardiac arrest in a Herzliya shopping mall. The team performed CPR with just two fingers and after 30 minutes the baby’s pulse returned. Later in hospital a heart defect was discovered and treated.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361365
Preemie delivered and resuscitated. United Hatzalah volunteers have been busy. In Kiryat Gat they delivered a premature baby in the breech position and then used two-fingered CPR and ventilation to restore her pulse. They also treated the mother who had lost a large amount of blood during the emergency.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/miracle-delivery-israeli-emts-revive-pulse-less-preemie-during-home-birth/