MY E-PAL MICHAEL ORDMAN CATALOGS THE MYRIAD ACHIEVEMENTS OF ISRAEL….THE BOYCOTT AND DIVEST GROUPIES SHOULD BE DENIED ALL THE BENEFITS OF MEDICAL ADVANCES IN ISRAEL…..RSK
www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
Diabetes revolution in Israel. A new method for treating Diabetes is being developed by Israeli biotech Orgenesis whose Chief scientist is Dr Sarah Ferber, Director of Molecular Endocrinology at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. The therapy is called autologous cell replacement and uses a patient’s own cells.
http://unitedwithisrael.org/new-diabetes-treatment/
Israeli-Arab star. Nazareth based Alpha Omega has won the American-Israeli Chamber of Commerce’s Eagle Star Award for its medical device to treat neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease. The sophisticated microelectrode technology allows doctors to stimulate and record the brain’s natural electrical impulses.
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/25649/
http://vimeo.com/44057121
Detecting problems in pregnancy. (Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s OrSense, announced successful clinical trial results for anaemia screening and haemorrhage detection using its NBM200 device. The non-invasive blood monitor measures haemoglobin levels in pregnant women.
http://israel21c.org/news/orsense-detects-hemorrhage-anemia-during-pregnancy/
The first medical smartphone. Israel’s LifeWatch Technologies unveiled the LifeWatch V- a first of its kind medical smartphone that measures ECG, heart rate, body temperature, blood sugar levels, body fat percentages, blood oxygen saturation and an index for measuring stress. Your phone becomes “a life preserving apparatus”.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157483
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UGYcX1RkA&feature=player_embedded
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Israeli scientists can control insects. (Thanks to NoCamels) A robotics professor and an aerospace engineering scientist at Israel’s Technion have decoded the movement of insects. Replaying the electronic signals makes the insects move. Known as Biomimicry, this can help produce small controlled vehicle
http://nocamels.com/2012/07/haifa-researchers-able-to-control-insects-movements/
Detecting problems in pregnancy. (Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s OrSense, announced successful clinical trial results for anaemia screening and haemorrhage detection using its NBM200 device. The non-invasive blood monitor measures haemoglobin levels in pregnant women.
http://israel21c.org/news/orsense-detects-hemorrhage-anemia-during-pregnancy/
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
150 years of the Hospital for Nazareth. Now an Israel Government Hospital, our friend and childbirth educator Wendy Blumfield sent us this write-up of the Nazareth Conference held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. The audience was Arab Moslem and Christian, Jewish secular and religious.
http://haifadiarist.blogspot.co.il/2012/06/nazareth-conference-apartheid.html
“Windows to the world” opens on the work of Herzog Hospital. A fascinating art composition by the Canadian Friends of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem has shone light on the wonderful work by the hospital for children with respiratory diseases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikWLcrhd4xo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.herzoghospital.ca/
