#rabin medical center

[eretzyisrael]

Four Israelis were killed and another four were wounded in a shooting attack by two terrorists at a gas station outside of the West Bank settlementof Eli on Tuesday afternoon. 

One of the victims was identified as Elisha Antman, a resident of the town of Eli. Another was identified as Harel Masoud, a resident of Yad Binyamin.

During an exchange of fire, one of the terrorists was shot and killed by an armed Israeli civilian, while the other fled.

Shin Bet, IDF and Border Police forces shot and killed the second terrorist after locating him and attempting to arrest him a short time later. They followed him upon his escape, according to a joint statement, and eventually found his car abandoned. The security forces continued to track the terrorist and attempted to arrest him once he was found. He was killed when he resisted arrest, according to their statement.

During the search, the Israeli security forces employed the use of a helicopter and set up additional checkpoints in the area.  

"Two terrorists entered a restaurant near the gas station [where they] shot and killed three civilians. They then came out and fatally shot a civilian who was refueling his car. Another citizen who was at the gas station opened fire and managed to neutralize one of the terrorists, the other apparently fled the scene," ZAKA (rescue and recovery organization) spokesman Moti Bookchin said.

The terrorist who was killed on site was identified as Muhannad Shahada, a resident of the village of Ourif near Nablus in the West Bank, according to Palestinian reports cited by Army Radio. 

Four killed, four wounded in the attack

One of the four additional wounded, a 20-year-old man in serious condition, was transferred to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. He is in serious but stable condition with a gunshot wound in his upper body and will soon undergo surgery, according to the hospital.

Two additional wounded are in moderate and another in light condition, according to MDA. They were transported to Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.

"We received a report at MDA's 101 hotline about a shooting attack at a gas station next to Eli. We arrived with large forces at the gas station and saw a difficult scene," said senior medic Motti Dahan from MDA. "[Eight] had suffered gunshot wounds, some of them at the gas station and some at the nearby restaurant...Three of the wounded were evacuated to hospitals in MDA intensive care vehicles and unfortunately, we had to pronounce the death of 4 victims."

"Unfortunately four people were pronounced dead following resuscitation attempts that were unsuccessful," United Hatzalah volunteer paramedics Aviah Chaim and Yoni Rosenfeld said. "In addition, we provided initial treatment to four more people who suffered from gunshot wounds. Due to the nature of the incident, United Hatzalah's Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit also treated a number of people for emotional shock."

Following the attack, Eli settlement chairman Ariel Elmaliach called on the residents to stay in their homes, because of the possibility that the second terrorist had entered the town. The all-clear was given about an hour and a half afterward.

Politicians express condolences, security chiefs to meet later

"The time has come to launch a military operation in Judea and Samaria. Return to targeted killings, take down buildings, put up checkpoints, expell terrorists and pass the death penalty for terrorists."

"Settlers have become ducks on a shooting range," National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said at the scene of the attack in Eli. "I call on the Prime Minister, I call on Minister Gallant, the time has come to launch a military operation in Judea and Samaria. Return to targeted killings, take down buildings, put up checkpoints, expell terrorists and pass the death penalty for terrorists in the second and third Knesset reading."

"Difficult news from Eli. Four murdered people and the heart breaks for the families and the friends who lost their dearest persons in a murderous terror attack," opposition leader Yair Lapid said. "I send condolences and share in the grief of the families and pray together with the whole of Israel for healing and comfort... I trust [Israeli security forces] to catch the murderers and their senders."

"I would like to send my heartfelt condolences to the families of those murdered in the terrible attack in Eli and wish the injured a speedy and full recovery," National Unity chairman and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz said. "At this time, determined and responsible actions are required, led by the security forces. We will back up every correct decision of the government in the face of murderous terrorism."

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen also expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. "It has been a difficult day. My heart breaks for the 4 people murdered in the horrific terrorist attack near Eli. I send my condolences to their families, pray for the wounded to be healed, and support the security forces. In the face of the terrorism that is rearing its head, we must react with determination and strength. The Palestinian Authority, which pays terrorists and their families for murdering Jews, encourages terrorism. I call on the international community to strongly condemn this criminal policy."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that “all options are open” following the terror attack. “We will continue to fight terror with full force, and we will defeat it,” he stated.

Netanyahu said that Israel “proved in recent months that we make all the murderers pay, without exception. Anyone who harms us is in a grave or in prison. That will happen here, as well.”

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday that he was receiving ongoing updates on the situation. He added that at 6 p.m. he would hold a meeting with the chiefs of the military, the Shin Bet and other senior defense officials.

Israeli residents of the northern West Bank called for demonstrations at Eli and Rachelim junctions on Tuesday evening, in order to protest against the lacking response by the government and security forces, in their view.

This is a developing story.

Lahav Harkov contributed to this story.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 9.28 (after 1920)

1924 – The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army. 1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland. 1939 – World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end. 1941 – World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. 1941 – Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better. 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia. 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. 1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile. 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. 1986 – The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan. 1992 – A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew. 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup. 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. 2008 – Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission. 2008 – The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win. 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people. 2012 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants. 2012 – Sita Air Flight 601 crashes in Madhyapur Thimi, Nepal, killing all 19 passengers and crew. 2014 – The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing. 2016 – The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas. 2018 – The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured. 2023 – The 2023 Rotterdam shootings occurred, during which two people were killed in a shooting and arson incident at a residence in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. Additionally, one person lost their life in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center.

[monsterkong]

Feel Safe, Heal Deep: The Science Behind Apollo Neuro and Mental Wellness

👋 Hey Vibe Science listeners! Today, we’re diving into one of the most innovative wellness technologies out there—Apollo Neuro. If you’ve ever struggled with stress, anxiety, or feeling disconnected from your body, this might just be the solution you’ve been searching for.

Developed by Dr. Dave Rabin, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Apollo Neuro is designed to help your body feel safe so it can focus on healing. It uses soothing vibrations to send signals of safety to your nervous system, calming you down and helping you stay balanced. Whether you’re battling PTSD, anxiety, or just trying to stay centered in a fast-paced world, Apollo Neuro can help. 🧘‍♂️

🌟 The Healing Power of Safety

Here’s the deal: healing requires safety. Your body can’t heal if it’s constantly in survival mode. When we’re stressed or anxious, our nervous system shifts into fight or flight, sending blood and energy to our muscles and heart so we can "survive." This leaves little room for healing, digestion, or even creative thinking.

But when we feel safe, our body shifts gears. Blood and energy flow back to our recovery systems, allowing us to heal and recover. This is why techniques like yoga, meditation, and deep breathing are so effective—they help us feel safe and calm. Apollo Neuro taps into this same science, but in a way that’s easy to use every day.

By wearing Apollo, you’re essentially giving your body a hug—a reminder that it’s okay to relax and let go of stress. 🌱

🔬 The Future of Mental Health

Dr. Rabin’s work isn’t just limited to Apollo Neuro. He’s also a leading researcher in MDMA-assisted therapy, which is showing groundbreaking success in treating PTSD. Unlike traditional medications, which often only work for 30% of patients, MDMA-assisted therapy has a success rate of 70-88%. That’s huge!

Unfortunately, the path to FDA approval has been slow, but the science is clear: this therapy can change lives. Until then, technologies like Apollo Neuro are making a significant impact by giving people the tools they need to feel safe and heal. 🌍

If you’re ready to learn more, check out Dr. Rabin’s work at wearablehug.com or follow him on social media for the latest updates on mental health, healing, and wellness.

[baliportalnews]

Erick Thohir: Melalui KEK Sanur, BUMN Hadirkan World Class Medical and Wellness Destination Pertama di Indonesia

BALIPORTALNEWS.COM, SANUR - Menteri Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN), Erick Thohir menekankan pentingnya inovasi dalam menciptakan ekosistem pariwisata yang berkelanjutan untuk meningkatkan pertumbuhan ekonomi Indonesia melalui pariwisata, salah satunya dengan menghadirkan KEK Sanur yang terdiri dari Convention Center seluas 3.750 meter persegi dan Alster Lake Clinic dengan terobosan medical technology mereka. Hal ini disampaikan Menteri Erick dalam acara Peresmian Bali Beach Convention dan Groundbreaking Alster Lake Clinic yang dilakukan di Convention kawasan KEK Sanur, Bali, Selasa (30/1/2024). "Dengan hadirnya KEK Sanur diharapkan bisa menjadi lokomotif akselerator perekonomian di Indonesia. Fasilitas baru yang diresmikan ini tidak hanya mencakup infrastruktur ekonomi saja, namun juga keberlanjutan dan inovasi dalam pengembangan ekosistem pariwisata kesehatan. Selain itu KEK Sanur ini dapat menjadi model bagi pengembangan KEK di wilayah lain di Indonesia dalam menciptakan ekosistem pariwisata kesehatan terintegrasi sehingga dapat menjadi magnet bagi wisatawan domestik maupun mancanegara,” ungkap Erick. Dirinya menambahkan, KEK Sanur menjadi tonggak sejarah dan milestone bagi destinasi wisata berkelanjutan bertaraf internasional yang dapat mendorong kebangkitan ekosistem pariwisata dan perekonomian di Indonesia. Tidak hanya itu, melalui KEK Sanur, akan membawa teknologi medical and wellness terbaik di Indonesia serta yang lebih penting seluruh kawasan nantinya ditargetkan mampu menyerap sekitar 43 ribu tenaga kerja. Direktur utama InJourney, Dony Oskaria menyebutkan pengembangan convention ini mengembalikan visi awal Sanur sebagai pusat destinasi pariwisata Meeting, Incentives, Conference and Exhibitions (MICE) yang juga menjadi salah satu convention center terbesar di Bali dengan kapasitas 5.000 pax yang memiliki pemandangan yang indah dengan menghadap langsung ke area pantai. Perlu diketahui, KEK Sanur yang ditetapkan melalui Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 41 Tahun 2022 ini merupakan inisiatif strategis Pemerintah untuk memanfaatkan potensi kawasan Sanur sebagai destinasi pariwisata kesehatan dengan menjadikan Bali sebagai landmark dalam peningkatan dan diversifikasi perekonomian Indonesia. Pada tahun 2045, target penghematan potensi devisa mencapai Rp 86 T, dan penambahan devisa hingga Rp 19,6 T pada periode yang sama. Ini merupakan wujud komitmen BUMN dalam menciptakan inovasi untuk ekosistem Pariwisata yang lebih baik. Peresmian Convention Center dan Alster Lake Clinic turut dihadiri Direktur Alster Lake Clinic, Prof. Dr. Med. Fred Fandrich, PJ. Gubernur Bali, Sang Made Mahendra Jaya serta Sekretaris Menteri BUMN RI, Rabin Indrajad Hattari.(bpn) Read the full article

[rnomics]

New drug delivery system containing #RNA therapy can target #cancer cells in bone marrow

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have destroyed 90% of multiple myeloma blood #cancer cells under laboratory conditions, and 60% in human tissues taken from patients at Rabin Medical Center (Belinson Hospital), using an #RNA-based drug delivered to the cells by targeted lipid nanoparticles. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-drug-delivery-rna-therapy-cancer.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[hon440-opioidcrisis]

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2021. “Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually.” Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dugosh, Karen, Amanda Abraham, Brittany Seymour, Keli McLoyd, Mady Chalk, and David Festinger. 2016. “A Systematic Review on the Use of Psychosocial Interventions in Conjunction With Medications for the Treatment of Opioid Addiction.” Journal of Addiction Medicine 10(2):91-101.

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[shuga-hill]

Artificial cornea restores patient’s vision An artificial cornea developed by an Israeli company has been successfully implanted in the eye of a man who lost his sight a decade ago.

According to a release by CorNeat Vision, the 78-year-old patient regained his vision after the CorNeat KPro device was implanted into the eye.

The company said the implant replaces deformed, scarred or opacified corneas as it melds with the eye wall. The device is designed to integrate with ocular tissue using a patented synthetic non-degradable nanofabric skirt, which is placed under the conjunctiva.

The procedure was performed Jan. 11 by Professor Irit Bahar, the head of the ophthalmology department at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel.

Following the procedure, the company reported that the patient was able to recognize his family and read words.

“The moment we took off the bandages was emotional and significant,” Dr. Bahar said in a statement. “Moments like these are the fulfillment of our calling as doctors. We are proud of being at the forefront of this exciting and meaningful project which will undoubtedly impact the lives of millions.”

In 2020, CorNeat Vision was granted approval to move forward with clinical trials of the artificial cornea on 10 patients who had corneal blindness.

Gilad Litvin, MD, CorNeat Vision's co-founder, chief medical officer, and the inventor of the CorNeat KPro, said in a statement that being in the room with the patient was a “surreal” experience.

"After years of hard work, seeing a colleague implant the CorNeat KPro with ease and witnessing a fellow human being regain his sight the following day was electrifying and emotionally moving, there were a lot of tears in the room,” Dr. Litvin said in the statement. “This is an extremely important milestone for CorNeat Vision, key in our journey to enable people around the world to fully enjoy their vision potential."

Almog Aley-Raz, CorNeat Vision's co-founder, CEO and vice president of research and development, noted in the statement that the implantation is the first step in a multi-national clinical trial, geared toward attaining CE Mark, FDA clearance and China NMPA approval.

Aley-Raz noted that a total of 10 patients are approved for the trial at Rabin Medical Center in Israel with 2 additional sites planned to open this January in Canada and 6 others at different stages in the approval process in France, the United States, and the Netherlands.

“Our first trial includes blind patients who are not suitable candidates for- or have failed one or more corneal transplantations,” Aley-Raz said in the statement. “Given the visual performance of our device, the expected healing time and retention, and the fact that it cannot carry disease, we plan to initiate a second study later this year with broader indications to approve our artificial cornea as a first line treatment, displacing the use of donor tissue used in full thickness corneal transplantations."

[deadseaus]

DERMATOLOGY

DERMATOLOGY

1.Effect of sun exposure (climatotherapy) at the Dead Sea on photodamage among patients with psoriasis and comparison with other versions of treatment modalities. David M., Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Israel and other Dermatology Departments in Israel. The conclusions of the study 650 patients who were treated at the Dead Sea for five years or more, were that “Dead Sea treatment,” based on exposing the patients to the sun at the Dead Sea, does not pose a risk factor for the appearance of skin cancer.

  Correlation between Clinical Improvement, Epidermal and Lymphocytic Activation in Psoriatic Patients after Dead Sea Treatment. Hodak E., David M., Gottlieb A., This study suggests that climatotherapy at the Dead Sea leads to a reversal of both epidermal pathological changes and lymphocytic activation in psoriasis. These observations may provide the cellular basis for the sustained remission of psoriasis reported to be achieved by this treatment modality.

Comparison of the Cost-Effectiveness between Dead Sea Treatment for Psoriasis and the In-Hospital Setting in Switzerland. Neeser K., Palmer A.J., Sturzinger M., The clinical outcomes of the Dead Sea Treatment for Psoriasis was comparable to in-hospital therapy, but cost saving varied from 31% to 55%. Thus, the results of this study indicate that considering economic factors, climatotherapy at the Dead Sea is preferable to in-hospital therapy for Swiss psoriasis patients.

Significant Improvement in Life Quality of Psoriasis Patients after Dead Sea Treatment. Amir M., Vardy D., Narkiss T., Becker G., Buskila D., Heliotherapy at the Dead Sea improves certain aspects of quality of life in patients suffering from Psoriasis. A comparative study for outpatient phototherapy is presently being planned.

In vitro Dead Sea Bath Salt for Psoriasis. Halevy S., This study shows good correlation between beneficial clinical effect induced by balneotherapy with Dead Sea bath salt in psoriasis vulgaris and alterations in histological parameters, expression of cytokines and serum levels of traces elements. Further investigations are needed in order to understand the various mechanisms possibly involved.

Combination of Dead Sea Treatment and Calcipotriol for Psoriasis. Abels D.J., This control study shows improved therapeutic results by a combination of a Calcipotriol (versus emollients) pre-Dead Sea treatment and its continued use during Dead Sea climatotherapy. The response in the combination group continued to be better following 2, 3 and 4 weeks after Dead Sea treatment.

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from Dead Sea Products USA https://www.deadsea.us/dermatology/

[damascususa-blog]

Jewish Boycott

The movement to boycott Israel is very strong on college campuses, and growing.  It has even been introduced by Representatives Omar and Tlaid in Congress.  The information below is very telling.

Jewish BoycottA short time ago, Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people. In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:

"Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. 

If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner. "

A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.

Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

"Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

"Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts. "In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott."

Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the Muslims made?"

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.   They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat1990 - Elias James Corey1994 - Yaser Arafat:1999 - Ahmed Zewai Economics: (zero) Physics: (zero) Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar1998 - Ferid Mourad TOTAL: 7 SEVEN The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.   They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1910 - Paul Heyse1927 - Henri Bergson1958 - Boris Pasternak1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon1966 - Nelly Sachs1976 - Saul Bellow1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer1981 - Elias Canetti1987 - Joseph Brodsky1991 - Nadine Gordimer World Peace: 1911 - Alfred Fried1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser1968 - Rene Cassin1973 - Henry Kissinger1978 - Menachem Begin1986 - Elie Wiesel1994 - Shimon Peres1994 - Yitzhak Rabin Physics: 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer1906 - Henri Moissan1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson1908 - Gabriel Lippmann1910 - Otto Wallach1915 - Richard Willstaetter1918 - Fritz Haber1921 - Albert Einstein1922 - Niels Bohr1925 - James Franck1925 - Gustav Hertz1943 - Gustav Stern1943 - George Charles de Hevesy1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi1952 - Felix Bloch1954 - Max Born1958 - Igor Tamm1959 - Emilio Segre1960 - Donald A. Glaser1961 - Robert Hofstadter1961 - Melvin Calvin1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman1965 - Julian Schwinger1969 - Murray Gell-Mann1971 - Dennis Gabor1972 - William Howard Stein1973 - Brian David Josephson1975 - Benjamin Mottleson1976 - Burton Richter1977 - Ilya Prigogine1978 - Arno Allan Penzias1978 - Peter L Kapitza1979 - Stephen Weinberg1979 - Sheldon Glashow1979 - Herbert Charles Brown1980 - Paul Berg1980 - Walter Gilbert1981 - Roald Hoffmann1982 - Aaron Klug1985 - Albert A. Hauptman1985 - Jerome Karle1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach1988 - Robert Huber1988 - Leon Lederman1988 - Melvin Schwartz1988 - Jack Steinberger1989 - Sidney Altman1990 - Jerome Friedman1992 - Rudolph Marcus1995 - Martin Perl2000 - Alan J. Heeger Economics: 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson1971 - Simon Kuznets1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow1975 - Leonid Kantorovich1976 - Milton Friedman1978 - Herbert A. Simon1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein1985 - Franco Modigliani1987 - Robert M Solow1990 - Harry Markowitz1990 - Merton Miller1992 - Gary Becker1993 - Robert Fogel Medicine: 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff1908 - Paul Erlich1914 - Robert Barany1922 - Otto Meyerhof1930 - Karl Landsteiner1931 - Otto Warburg1936 - Otto Loewi1944 - Joseph Erlanger1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser1945 - Ernst Boris Chain1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller1950 - Tadeus Reichstein1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman1953 - Hans Krebs1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann1958 - Joshua Lederberg1959 - Arthur Kornberg1964 - Konrad Bloch1965 - Francois Jacob1965 - Andre Lwoff1967 - George Wald1968 - Marshall W Nirenberg1969 - Salvador Luria1970 - Julius Axelrod1970 - Sir Bernard Katz1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman1975 - Howard Martin Temin1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow1978 - Daniel Nathans1980 - Baruj Benacerraf1984 - Cesar Milstein1985 - Michael Stuart Brown1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]1988 - Gertrude Elion1989 - Harold Varmus1991 - Erwin Neher1991 - Bert Sakmann1993 - Richard J. Roberts1993 - Phillip Sharp1994 - Alfred Gilman1995 - Edward B. Lewis1996- Lu RoseIacovino TOTAL: 129! The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.  The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.  There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.   There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people. The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:   'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."

Benjamin Netanyahu: General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.   He did this because he said in words to this effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.'  

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.   It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.  It is now more than 65 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.   This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world. How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim?

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[eretzyisrael]

The Health Ministry has approved the expanded use of an innovative COVID-19 treatment that helped 15 out of 17 severe patients who took it to be released from the hospital one day after receiving their final dose.

The drug, MesenCure, has been tested by Rambam Medical Center as part of a Phase I/II trial. The ministry has approved allowing any interested Israeli hospital to take part in the Phase II trial and to use the drug for additional approved patients.

The goal of the expanded trial, which will include a minimum of 50 patients, is to confirm the safety and efficacy of the drug, which was developed by Bonus BioGroup.

MesenCure, which consists of activated Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) that are isolated from the adipose tissue of healthy donors, was found to reduce inflammation and alleviate respiratory and other symptoms in patients suffering from life-threatening respiratory distress brought on by COVID-19.

Back in May, the company reported on 10 COVID patients between the ages of 45 to 75, all with severe symptoms. Ninety percent of them also had comorbidities.

The data showed a 40% decrease in lung inflammation from treatment – from 55% to 15%, as seen in chest X-rays, in the first five days after treatment. One month later, lung inflammation reached 1%.

Additionally, patients showed significantly improved respiratory function, with blood oxygen saturation increasing to 95% and lung functioning returning to almost entirely normal levels after only one month.

The company’s CEO Shai Meretzki had shared a laboratory image of a healthy lung, a sick lung and lung treated with MesenCure with The Jerusalem Post in May.

“The treated lung looks almost identical to the normal, healthy lung – complete healing, complete prevention of damage to the lung,” Meretzki said.

Most strikingly, patients were discharged from the hospital after a median duration of only one day following the treatment.

Since then, six additional patients received MesenCure, bringing the numbers to 15 out of 17 who were released – 88%.

Bonus was founded in 2008. It has been working with MSCs for a decade from its Haifa headquarters, where it developed its core product, a tissue-engineered bone graft that is also based on MSCs.

When the coronavirus outbreak started in early 2020, Bonus started investigating the potential of MSCs to possibly reduce the cytokine storm in COVID-19 patients.

The company said that the drug could also be used to treat other, similar indications, including, lower respiratory tract infections, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which together, represent a global market expected to exceed $43 billion per year by 2026.

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Medicinale marihuana effectief bevonden bij het verminderen van chronische lage rugpijn

Israëlische onderzoekers hebben ontdekt dat medicinale marihuana pijn in de onderrug aanzienlijk kan verlichten.Vier op de vijf mensen hebben op enig moment in hun leven lage rugpijn, waardoor het een van de meest voorkomende redenen is waarom mensen hun arts bezoeken. De klachten kunnen variëren van mild tot zeer ernstig, waarbij lopen, werken, slapen en andere activiteiten vrijwel onmogelijk zijn. Mensen ouder dan 30 jaar - vooral met fysiek werk - of met ziekten als artrose, scoliose en een slechte houding lopen een hoog risico op rugpijn. Behandelingen zijn vaak langdurig en omvatten cortisone-injecties, fysiotherapie en soms zelfs chirurgie. Marihuana tegen rugklachten Dr. Dror Robinson en Dr. Mustafa Yassin van de afdeling Orthopedie van het Hasharon-ziekenhuis van het Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva, en Sivan Ritter van de Universiteit van Haifa, publiceerden hun nieuwe studie in het Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal. Gedreven door de vraag van het publiek, groeit medicinale marihuana als een veelgebruikte behandeling in de geneeskunde, vooral voor pijnverlichting, ondanks het ontbreken van een gevestigde wetenschappelijke basis. Er werden twee soorten marihuana-behandelingen gegeven aan patiënten met chronische rugklachten in het lage gedeelte. De eerste was een behandeling met cannabidiol. Dit werd sublinguaal (onder de tong) gedurende een periode van 10 maanden gebruikt. Na een maand zonder behandeling kreeg dezelfde groep Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-rijke hele gedroogde cannabisbloemen die gedurende 12 maanden in de vorm van sigaretten werden gerookt. Het aantal deelnemers was klein - 24 mensen, zeven vrouwen en 17 mannen, van wie de MRI- of CT-scans van de wervelkolom een ​​hernia of spinale stenose vertoonden - maar de resultaten waren overtuigend. De meest gemelde initiële bijwerkingen waren misselijkheid, keelpijn, slaperigheid, duizeligheid en vermoeidheid, die allemaal van voorbijgaande aard waren en verdwenen nadat dosistolerantie was bereikt. De meeste van deze bijwerkingen werden opgemerkt bij vrouwelijke patiënten. Sublinguaal gebruik versus roken Slechts drie patiënten stopten met de cbd behandeling, maar hervatten de deelname met het roken van THC-rijke cannabisbloemen. Na minimaal twee jaar was de sublinguale behandeling met cbd niet significant in het verminderen van pijn, maar het roken van cannabisbloemen gaf indrukwekkende resultaten. Momenteel zijn er vergunningen om actieve medicinale marihuana voor te schrijven aan 110.971 Israëli's. 56,6% van dergelijke vergunningen werd voorgeschreven voor de behandeling van chronische neuropathische pijn die niet door kanker veroorzaakt werd. Een groot obstakel voor het wijdverbreide legale gebruik van medische op cannabinoïden gebaseerde therapie is het gebrek aan voldoende wetenschappelijk onderbouwde gegevens. Het behandelen van pijn met sublinguaal toegediende cannabisextracten heeft de voorkeur van veel artsen, omdat het kan worden beschouwd als gemakkelijker te verkrijgen bij de apotheek en te consumeren. Sublinguale toediening kan ook het voordeel hebben van een consistenter doseringsregime terwijl de nadelige effecten van roken worden vermeden. De klinische ervaring van de auteurs "wijst op een relatief gebrek aan efficiëntie van sublinguale extractbehandelingen in vergelijking met roken." De meeste Israëlische patiënten lijken de voorkeur te geven aan het roken van marihuana voor pijnverlichting. De licenties van het ministerie van Volksgezondheid die aan patiënten werden verleend, omvatten slechts 10% voor sublinguale extracten en 90% voor gerookte cannabisbloemen. Bron: jpost.com (EN) Read the full article

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Smoking Increases The Risk Of Stillbirth

Smoking Increases The Risk Of Stillbirth. Expectant mothers who smoke marijuana may triple their imperil for a stillbirth, a unusual study suggests. The risk is also increased by smoking cigarettes, using other juridical and illegal drugs and being exposed to secondhand smoke. Stillbirth peril is heightened whether moms are exposed to pot alone or in combination with other substances, the study authors added read more here. They found that 94 percent of mothers who had stillborn infants hand-me-down one or more of these substances. And "Even when findings are controlled for cigarette smoking, marijuana use is associated with an increased jeopardize of stillbirth," said leading lady researcher Dr Michael Varner, associate director of women's health, obstetrics and gynecology at University of Utah School of Medicine. Stillbirth refers to fetal demise after 20 weeks of pregnancy article source. Among drugs, signs of marijuana use was most often found in umbilical rope blood from stillborn infants. So "Because marijuana use may be increasing with increased legalization, the bearing of these findings may increase as well". Indeed, this seems acceptable as the push to legalize marijuana has gained momentum breast size. Colorado and Washington country voted for legalization of marijuana and states including California, Connecticut, Maine, Nevada and Oregon are legalizing its medical use. In addition, these and other states, including New York and Ohio, are decriminalizing its use. "Both obstetric anxiety providers and the projected should be aware of the associations between both cigarette smoking, including undisclosed exposure, and recreational/illicit drug use, and stillbirth". Although the numbers were smaller for medicament narcotics, there appears to be an association between exposure to these drugs and stillbirth as well. While the study Dec 2013 found an group between use of marijuana, other drugs and tobacco by pregnant women and higher risk of stillbirth, it did not constitute a cause-and-effect relationship. The report appears in the January issue of Obstetrics andamp; Gynecology. Study older author Dr Uma Reddy, a medical officer at the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said the aim why marijuana may rise the risk for stillbirths isn't clear. So "We don't know, but it's clear there is an increased endanger of stillbirth with marijuana. Some of it is overlapping with smoking cigarettes, and we know that cigarette use is also associated with stillbirth. The more a lady-in-waiting smokes, the higher the risk. For women, Reddy has a slow message: "Don't smoke. If you smoke, stop. You should not use marijuana during pregnancy". Dr Jill Rabin, captain of ambulatory care, obstetrics and gynecology at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY, echoed Reddy's comments. "We don't want our patients, either before they become parturient or during pregnancy, to either smoke or use anything that is not medically necessary, feel favourably impressed by marijuana or even remedy drugs". For the study, Varner's team analyzed 663 stillbirths that occurred between March 2006 and September 2008. They compared these with about 1900 persevere births. For their analysis, they tested umbilical string blood and blood from mothers for a variety of illegal drugs. In addition, they asked the mothers about their tobacco and cure use, and looked for signs of tobacco use in mothers' blood samples. They found that in 94 percent of the stillbirths tested, results were propitious for an illegal drug. The most general drug found was marijuana, which was associated with a 2,8-fold increase for stillbirth. Cigarette smoking was also associated with an increased chance of stillbirth, as was being exposed to secondhand smoke, the researchers found. Yet, how vehement the association is between all these different drugs and stillbirth isn't easy to pin down, another expert commented. And "In pregnancy it's particular to determine the exact cause of things, but there is clearly some connection there," said Dr Ryan Walter, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Scott andamp; White Healthcare in College Station, Texas. Although all the affidavit isn't in, Walter also advises women not to smoke, use drugs or snifter when planning to become in the or when expecting hypertension. The same is true for secondhand smoke, he said: "It's likely best not to be around it, but if you are married to a partner who smokes or you're in a family of smokers, it's active to be difficult to manage".

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AT LAST A PATIENT WITH “FLURONA”

AT LAST A PATIENT WITH “FLURONA”

Israel Records 1st Case of Patient With COVID-19 and Flu, Dubbed ‘Flurona’ has recorded what is widely believed to be the first case of “flurona” disease, a double infection of coronavirus and seasonal flu in an unvaccinated pregnant woman, according to local reports. The unnamed woman displayed mild symptoms at Rabin Medical Center in the city of Petah Tikva on Dec. 30, Hamodia reported. She…