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| | | |  | | NEW YORK – “I hear something about a child or an elderly person in need of medical attention and I want to do something, but to be effective, you need to focus your energy – Sandy taught me this" says Joan (Mrs. Sanford) Weill, | |
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| | | |  | | Kudos to recently published Rambam authors and editors | |
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| | | |  | | Israel offers the world a model for the detection, treatment, and follow-up of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) carriers and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients, states Prof. Shimon Pollack, Director of the Allergy, Immunology & AIDS Institute. In Israel until recently, however, if HIV carriers or others with chronic viral diseases wished to start families with the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF), they had either to seek treatment abroad or to abandon the idea. | |
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| | | |  | | For the past seventeen years, British Friends has been directed by one extraordinarily dedicated volunteer, Anita Alexander-Passe | |
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| | | |  | | In late May 2010, a confrontation between Israel Navy commandos and foreign activists aboard the Turkish-flagged ferry Mavi Marmara ended tragically. Nine Turkish nationals were killed, and seven commandos and dozens of activists were wounded. Israel Air Force helicopters evacuated the most severely injured to Rambam. | |
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| | | |  | | Israel's achievements in the life sciences, medical robotics, solar and water technology, and more were on display in Boston from April 30-May 9, 2010 at Congregation Mishkan Tefila and the Museum of Science during Israeli Innovation Week, which attracted thousands of visitors. Director General Prof. Rafi Beyar was among the keynote speakers. | |
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| | | |  | | Four months after Chile is hit with an 8.8 earthquake followed by a tsunami, Dr. Moshe Michaelson, Director of the Trauma Unit, and Gila Hyams, RN, Director of the Teaching Center for Trauma Emergency and Mass Casualty Situations (MCS), lead an Israeli delegation to that country, where they train 300 rescue unit personnel. | |
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| | | |  | | Gynecological oncologist Dr. Amnon Amit spends 3 weeks in Xinghua teaching laparoscopy to young physicians, and also performs laparoscopic surgeries to remove ovarian and uterine tumors from 18 patients. | |
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| | | |  | | The nucleus of a single human cell contains 23 paired chromosomes. Under the microscope, these appear rather like paired, striped stockings. Tucked inside each chromosome is a long, looping molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) whose segments are genes, discrete units of heredity. | |
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| | | |  | | Prof. Moshe Berant, Chair of the Clinical Studies Ethics (Helsinki) Committee, leads workshops at Addis Ababa Medical School to assist that institution in obtaining World Health Organization (WHO) certification for conducting clinical research. | |
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| | | |  | | Thirty healthcare professionals from Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan come to Rambam for advanced training in caring for HIV carriers. | |
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| | | |  | | Fourteen-year-old Eyal stood on a stage built on the spacious back lawn of the Dan Carmel Hotel, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra directly behind him, and a sea of grownups in evening attire facing him. | |
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| | | |  | In 2010, fifty 9th graders from Ironi Aleph Junior High School in Haifa came to Rambam for a pilot course intended to provide them with insights into the medical profession. | |
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| | | |  | Prof. Derek LeRoith, MD, PhD, FACP
Director
Diabetes and Metabolism Clinical Research Center of Excellence
Legacy Heritage Clinical Research Institute at Rambam (LHCRIR)
Emeritus Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease
Emeritus Director, Metabolism Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
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| | | |  | Mazel Tov to Editor-in-Chief Shraga Blazer, Director, Department of Neonatology, on the June 10th launch of the Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal (RMMJ). | |
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| | | |  | In Israel, all holidays begin on the preceding eve. On December 31, 2009, Rambam ushered in secular New Year 2010 with the 3rd Annual Research Seminar. | |
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| | | |  | | – In August 2010, Dr. Mo'men Kharraz of Rafidia Hospital in Nablus completes two years of advanced orthopedic surgical training at Rambam under the auspices of the Peres Center for Peace. | |
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| | | |  | | Twenty-five Portuguese physicians travel to Rambam for 10 days of advanced Mass Casualty Situations (MCS) preparedness training. | |
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| | | |  | | Ruth Rappaport arrived from Geneva, Switzerland with friends M. et Mme. Didier and Marie-Therese Escaut. Anita Alexander-Passe came from London. The Canadian contingent included Torontonians Moti Fishman and Suzanne Kaye, and Manitobans Kerry Auriat, Sandra Penny, and Mike Waddell. A large contingent arrived from the States, among them Adam Emmerich, Harvey Krueger with grandson Alex Cohen and friend Jerry Gotkin, Relly Dibner, Yair and Shoshana Kagan, Staci Light, Etti and Zeev Pilpel, and Florence Tatistcheff-Amzallag. | |
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| | | |  | | Think of it as a video game with clear-cut bad guys, good guys, and a team of championship gamers alert for the surprises and shifting rules generated by the game itself -- and for the recalcitrant mysteries at the game's core. | |
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| | | |  | | – Senior Physician Dr. Yoav Berger and Chief Resident Dr. Sergiu Socea of the Department of Ophthalmology conduct 55 cataract and glaucoma operations on children and adults at the Centre Hospitalier d'Essos in Yaounde, and also train local medical teams to perform the procedures. | |
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| | | |  | | LONDON – Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is pictured sounding a silver shofar presented to him by Director General of Rambam Prof. Rafi Beyar. The occasion was a reception hosted by the Chief Rabbi and his wife, Lady Elaine Sacks, at their home on May 11th. | |
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| | | |  | | Drs. Avraham and Margalit Lorber travel to Da Nang Hospital, where he teaches local physicians to perform lifesaving therapeutic catheterizations for children with congenital heart disease, and she teaches prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. | |
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| | | |  | "Why is there consciousness? Why do we have a soul? You can have a whole course in biophysiology and never hear the word soul," said psychoanalyst Prof. Yoram Yovell of the University of Haifa, setting the day's tone. | |
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| | | |  | | The same set of data that is mined by scientists for patterns of genetic disease in populations also holds answers to historical mysteries. | |
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| | | |  | | Chronic, progressive kidney disease (CKD), which is the prelude to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), afflicts over 30 million individuals in North America. In about half of the individuals with CKD, the underlying cause is diabetic injury to the kidneys. In most of the remaining patients, a group of other causes prevail | |
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| | | |  | | In Masaka, 25 physicians, nurses, teachers, and community workers attend a 2-week course in which Dr. Margalit Lorber conveys the latest medical knowledge concerning HIV. | |
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| | | |  | | "This honor comes to me in partnership with Baruch. So many aspects of the Rambam were in him: vision, a multidisciplinary approach, love of the future, charisma. He would not start a project if he didn't see a chance to complete it." | |
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| | | |  | | Beauty and meaning were enhanced at Rambam on February 4th, International Cancer Prevention Day, with the opening of an exhibit of drawings by children hospitalized in pediatric oncology units in the Middle East and the United States. | |
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