News and Events

​​Most leukemia patients discover they have the disease in the evening. A pilot program at Rambam—in its third year—has used this knowledge to develop a new way to quickly diagnose and treat leukemia.

​​Imagine the surprise of Rambam doctors when they confirmed the diagnosis of a disease in a woman who had not been overseas—a disease found previously only in the southeastern or central parts of the USA.

Two patients in need of a hip replacement are the first in Israel to benefit from a new polymer implant via a clinical trial being held at Rambam Health Care Campus.

Action on Wheels: Special sports activities in the Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital are the first step towards a healthy lifestyle for kids with disabilities.

​Physicians from Rambam's Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital recently traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia. Children suffering from complex health problems benefitted from their expertise.

​Painting Rambam in Pink: As part of the world-wide "Breast Cancer Awareness Month" in October, two of the historic Rambam Health Care Campus buildings were bathed in pink lights yesterday evening (18 October 2017) – the old medical school faculty and the Stone Building. The building-lighting ceremony was attended by Israeli Parliament Ministers Aida Touma-Sliman and Ayman Odeh, Mariam Foundation board of directors members, Rambam administration representatives and hospital staff, and the Hamad family with their friends and supporters.

Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus held a drill Thursday simulating a scenario in which the Haifa metropolitan area would be under attack by missiles carrying chemical warheads.

A new "Australian Friends of Rambam" organization was inaugurated in Melbourne, Australia, to support Northern Israel’s largest, joining its seven sister branches operating on behalf of Rambam Health Care Campus around the world.

​Brain catheterization, may be a last resort for ischemic stroke patients. A rare operation, published only twice before, was performed at Rambam on a 78-year-old woman—brain catheterization twice within two days—in the same vein.

​​There are only three brain catheterization specialists in Israel’s north; two are at Rambam. This treatment is increasingly being used. Rambam physicians performed 20% of all such procedures in Israel.

​​​A unique program initiated by Rambam Health Care Campus enabled 35 doctors and nurses from China to visit and learn more about patient care in a large Israeli hospital.

​Millions of people suffer from diastolic heart failure, for which there is no effective long-term treatment. Rambam HCC is the first hospital in the world to treat a patient with a new Israeli-developed device for this condition.

​​The Herta and Paul Amir Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU), in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rambam Health Care Campus opened last week—the most advanced unit of its kind in Northern Israel.

​​​Four months after the surgery that saved his life, Tomas Herdevall, who has managed the Pacific Rowing Club in Haifa for the past 20 years, set out to thank the medical team that treated him in his own way—with Kayak rowing lessons.

The 20th Maccabiah games come to a close today. Rambam Health Care Campus—the medical center serving Haifa participants—provided medical services to participants, despite the complex logistics involved.

​Professor Lloyd B. Minor M.D., dean of Stanford University School of Medicine, one of the best medical schools in the world, recently visited Rambam HCC to learn more about what goes on in the largest hospital in Northern Israel.

​Eight days to perform 155 surgeries? Two Rambam doctors and their colleagues traveled to Ghana and took on this near impossible task as part of a humanitarian mission to treat people with cleft lip and palate.

Rambam ranked second place among hospitals in Israel in the provision of quality health care to patients, according to data from the Israeli Ministry of Health's National Quality Indicators Program published last week.

Medical Teams from Rambam Health Care Campus will be the official health care providers for the 20th Maccabiah games, one of the largest sports events in the world with thousands of Jewish athletes from 80 countries.

​An inspiring sculpture created by the renowned artist was donated recently to the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, adding a peaceful and healing atmosphere to the surroundings.