Welcome the new medicine: it’s more precisemore personal, and offers “targeted therapies” and tailored treatments, based on the specific genetic features of each patient. The first breakthroughs are already practiced in the field of cancer treatment, particularly for  breast cancer .

In contrast to what people thought in the past, in about half of the cases ADHD does not resolve with maturity, and continues affecting people living with the disorder in all aspects of their life. On the reasons for the disorder, its symptoms, diagnostic methods and a questionnaire for self-examination: Do you also suffer from this problem?

The effort to reduce as far as possible the early detection time in cancer leads scientists to surprising fields, such as the "electronic nose" – an electronic system based on nanotechnology techniques, simulating the dog's sense of smell and "smelling" cancer in its early stages.

In the laboratory of Prof. Lior Gepstein, they have succeeded, for the first time in the world, to create beating heart tissue from embryonic stem cells, and to incorporate with blood vessels into it. How far is it from here to transplantation of engineered cardiac tissue in patients with severe cardiac insufficiency? “The road ahead is still hard and long,” warns Prof. Gepstein, “but meanwhile, it looks promising…”

A novel surgical technique, involving implantation into the brain of an electrical stimulation electrode connected to a pacemaker, which significantly improves the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The operation requires performance precision at the level of millimeter fractions, and is carried out at the Rambam Health Care Campus by a multi-disciplinary team, which was set up especially for the treatment of patients with severe movement disorders.

Nearly one in a hundred neonates is born with a cardiac defect. Due to the enormous variety of congenital heart defects, each case is a world unto itself. Fortunately, modern technology enables detection in utero of most such flaws.

Women who undergo mastectomy can choose to have immediate breast reconstruction performed in the same surgical procedure; they wake up from mastectomy with a reconstructed breast. The following article describes the three common methods currently used in breast reconstruction and how the surgery is performed, and lists the advantages and disadvantages of each of the methods.

Influenza, or "the flu," a disease that affects almost every one of us at least once a year, could soon become a fatal epidemic, which could cost millions of lives worldwide. It is only a matter of time. The influenza epidemic – the complete story.

Since its discovery in the early 1980s, AIDS became a synonym for "death sentence." During the last decade, intensive research and development of combined therapies ("cocktails") have turned this terminal disease into a chronic disease, which it is possible to live with for many years. The scientists are now searching for ways not only to live with the disease, but also to eradicate it.

There are several important issues to learn about the mechanism of action of the new generation anti-depressants, in order to ensure that the treatment works and the depression is relieved. Guidelines for correct and safe use are provided below.

The pathway to the cure of liver damage is still paved with question marks – which cells are suitable for implantation, how exactly should implantation be performed, can the cells be implanted the way they are or do they need a supporting scaffold, and if they do – of what should the scaffold be composed? Researchers in the Liver Disease Research Laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine building are searching for answers to all these questions and more.

The Troponin-I test, together with other methods (such as ECG), is used by the treating physician to determine whether the patient has indeed suffered a heart attack.

In the last six months, an 80% increase has been recorded in the number of cardiac surgeries performed at the Rambam Health Care Campus, including complicated aorta replacement and mitral valve repair operations, some of which are now performed without opening the chest bone. Although surgeons are now operating on patients whom no surgeon would have dared to operate on in the past, the rate of mortality has remained unchanged. This success is attributed to the Department of Cardiac Surgery team, led by Dr. Gil Bolotin, Director of the Department, who describes the situation in one of the most exciting fields of medicine.

Israeli researchers were among the first to understand the added value of combining two medical imaging technologies, CT and nuclear medicine, into one device for diagnosis and treatment of the patient. The result is combined (hybrid) imaging, assisting in the diagnosis of active disease foci with a high precision level, thus enabling diagnosis and effective treatment of cancer, a number of infectious diseases, and heart diseases.