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Amidst missile fire on Friday morning, Israel’s Minister of Defense and retired military general, Yoav Gallant, visited the wounded soldiers being treated at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel.

Representing Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, Professor Rafi Beyar, President of Rambam’s International Friends Associations and former hospital director, shared his distinct perspective with over 350 attendees at last week’s Pioneering Israeli Medicine Conference.

This past week, the unique underground setting of Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel became a center of learning, creativity, and community support as it hosted an array of activities bringing joy and relief to children of Rambam employees and their families.

In a remarkable display of resilience and adaptability, 73 newborns took their first breath in the protected underground hospital of Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel over the span of only one week.

With the continuation of tensions in the North of Israel and at the instruction of the Home Front Command, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel has opened its Fortified Emergency Underground Hospital. The facility has received vast media attention from all over the world with the opening of its Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital.

In response to the escalating security situation in northern Israel, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa has launched a groundbreaking initiative to ensure the safety and continuity of education for young children.

In an unprecedented move aimed at ensuring the safety of mothers and their babies during the current crisis in Northern Israel, Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa has transferred the maternity department to a secure complex located three floors underground. Nine newborns have been safely delivered in the hospital’s Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital since Sunday.

In a meticulously planned operation, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel successfully received neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) babies from Carmel Medical Center, following yesterday’s relocation of 650 Rambam patients to the Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital.

Since last night, Hezbollah has fired hundreds of missiles into Northern Israel. Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam), the city of Haifa, and the communities served by the hospital, are under attack. The injured are being treated in the hospital’s fortified emergency room. In parallel, 1,000 patients will have been moved into Rambam’s Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital by the end of today.

This week, Apple received approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to market its AirPods Pro 2 as hearing aids for people with mild to moderate hearing loss. How will this affect the medical field, patients, and the market? Two senior physicians at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, shared their insights in an article published by the respected Hebrew daily, Globes.

A report published last month by the State Comptroller highlighted the alarming state of stroke care in Israel, particularly the northern and southern regions. The good news is that Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, has expanded their stroke care services to help meet that need.

Young patients diagnosed with leukemia at the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital of Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel now have an inventive companion in their journey towards recovery: an app that transforms the child’s cancer treatment into an interactive, game-like environment.

Professor Ronen Arnon, senior physician and head of the Pediatric Liver, Gastroenterology, and Pediatric Nutrition Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, is advocating for routine hepatitis C screenings to prevent infections in newborns. Regardless of advances in combatting the disease, approximately 50 babies in Israel annually are born with the virus due to undetected maternal infections.

In a remarkable turn of events for children diagnosed with achondroplasia, recent surgical advancements provide promising opportunities. Fourteen- year-old Yitzhak Koynov underwent a groundbreaking limb-lengthening surgery at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, which extended his arm length by an impressive 8 centimeters.

Mega-star and singer, Elton John shared on social media that a complication from an eye infection has caused partial blindness. What are the common causes of eye infections, and how does hygiene affect ocular health? Professor Michael Mimouni, director of the Cornea Unit in the Department of Ophthalmology at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, and chairperson of Israel’s Ophthalmology Society, explains.

Teratoma is a rare cancer that affects the reproductive organs. When 18-year-old Yasmin* was diagnosed with this condition, her life was turned upside down. However, with the collaborative efforts of physicians from two Haifa hospitals and a specialized surgical intervention, Yasmin, now 21, is hopeful for a healthy and promising future.

Dr. Goded Shahaf, principal investigator of the Applied Neurophysiology Lab at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, has developed the EyeCon, a pioneering tool that has been successfully used for several years to facilitate communication with patients in a vegetative state. This innovative device, which is implemented by Dr. Dana Baron Shahaf, director of the Neurosurgery Anesthesia Unit at Rambam, employs electroencephalogram (EEG) technology.

In a moving embrace of both sorrow and hope, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, took part in a poignant tribute that marked the intertwining of lives and legacies. This special initiative honored the memory of Captain Eitan Fish, who perished nine months ago in the battle in Gaza.

Over the span of just three days, the skilled pediatric medical team at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel demonstrated expertise and rapid response in handling three critical cases involving young children who had ingested dangerous foreign objects.

Following the outbreak of war and unexpected evacuation from Kibbutz Eilon in the Western Galilee where she had anticipated a joyful pregnancy, Tal Asiag found herself in the High Risk Pregnancy Service at Rambam, anxiously awaiting her daughter's arrival.