In The News - Friends of Sheba Medical Center

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Israeli doctors in Congo to aid burn victims get slammed for occupation Baby saves mother from blood clot, at Sheba Israeli doctors are first foreign specialists to treat victims of Congo oil blast Sheba's Prof. Eli Schwartz pens new book on travelers and tropical diseases Sheba scientists: Teen-age Boys Have Greater Risk Than Girls Of High Blood Pressure As Adults Sheba's Prof. Achiron Preempts Multiple Sclerosis Sheba doctors: Experimental treatment successful in half of melanoma cases Houston forges cancer research links with Israel Israelis find MS signs that appear years before symptoms Israeli team reports on return from 10-day Haiti mission Sheba Proposes Establishment of Haitian-Israeli Rehabilitation Center in Haiti Born-again Zionist supermodel British Medical Journal Discrimnates Against Sheba Sheba and M. D. Anderson Sign Cooperation Agreement in Cancer Treatment and Research Sheba Medical center teams up with University of Texas Sheba's Colonel Dr. Itzik Kreiss Commands the Israeli Field Hospital in Haiti Five Sheba Doctors on Humanitarian Mission in Haiti Sheba Medical Research Offers New Hope for Treating Childhood Leukemia

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Israeli medical team saves sight in Myanmar Prof. Jacob Lavee's New Organ Donor Prioritization Plan Adopted into Law, and Draws International Attention Sheba's Prof. Raphi Walden Awarded the French Legion of Honor Israeli Researchers Make Significant Progress in Heart Tissue Engineering Sheba's Dr. Jacob Kuint and colleagues find that postpartum depression negatively affects infant development Sheba's Dr. Shai Izraeli discovers novel alternative to chemotherapy for children with leukemia Sheba, NYU researchers to draw genetic map of wandering Jew A new school of thought: A plan to open the country's fifth medical school brings opportunities to re-think doctor training Sarah Ferber of Sheba in Israel shows that potentially, patients with diabetes can be donors of their own therapeutic tissue Study shows why simple carbs are bad for you Study traces high carb link to heart attacks In pursuit of a happiness gene Using PlayStation to heal severe burn trauma Israel, PA and Jordan cooperate as flu threat grows Babies given transfusions in the womb do well Decrease In Sense Of Smell Seen In Lupus Patients Sheba Doctor Publishes Inflammatory Breast Cancer Drug Advance Sheba's Prof. Mordechai Shani to be Awarded Israel's Top Award: "The Israel Prize" for Lifetime Achievement The Last Soldier Goes Home Keep on giving: U.S. donor not deterred by financial downturn Israel's first center for child abuse victims opens at Sheba Medical Center Innovative cardiac valve prosthesis developed at Sheba Higher A1C Levels Linked to Lower Brain Function: Study Published by the American Diabetes Association Suggests Lowering A1C Levels Could Reduce Decline in Cognitive Function Gaza War Update II from Sheba Medical Center IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi at Sheba: "I Thank Sheba for its Remarkable and Irreplaceable Work on Behalf of the Nation and its Soldiers!"Medical Update on the Gaza War 'Not all Israelis are bad': Eight-year-old Palestinian cancer patient treated near Tel Aviv grateful to Israeli doctors

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Collected stories from around the world... Paralysed man walks again thanks to Robocop-style exoskeleton Dogs may help lower children's blood pressure War Between The Sexes Begins Before Twins' Birth, Sheba Researcher Says SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN features Sheba's Prof. Yoni Leor: Repairing Hearts with Seaweed Burnt "Miracle Girl" Undergoes Unique Skin Growth Treatment at Sheba Police commander who lost leg visits wounded Sderot boy Sheba study links protracted cellphone use with tumors Dr. Siegal Sadetzki of Sheba: Heavy Cell Phone Use Linked To Cancer New York Times: 2 Boys, 2 Sides, 2 Beds in an Israeli Hospital Ward (Sheba)Injured Sderot Boys Transferred to Sheba for Treatment MDA enters Ramallah to save Palestinian baby

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Sheba Hematologist Prof. Uri Seligson awarded the Prestigious Robert P. Grant Medal from the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis Laughter Therapy at Sheba: Laughter is Contagious — Cancer Isn't The Way the Wheel Turns An Unsimulated Success World Leading Cancer Researcher Prof. Steven Rosenberg Visits the Sheba Cancer Center The BioLineRx Drug Development Company Seeks to Begin Clinical Trials of an Implant Developed at Sheba to Treat Damaged Heart Tissue Sheba inaugurates lipid treatment center Sheba Dedicates the New Bert W. Strassburger Lipid Center Sheba Doctor says: Type 2 Diabetes Takes Toll on Teens Founder of medical simulation center receives Humanitarian Award Bronfman Prize-winner Dr. Amitai Ziv from Sheba honored in New York Israeli founder of simulation center changing the nature of medical training

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Sheba: A Model for Arab-Israeli Peace

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Sheba Scientists Publish Important Finding About Human Heart Stem Cells

Medical Update on the Gaza War

Date01/14/2009

As the Gaza War continues, Sheba Medical Center is helping to treat the casualties.

January 14, 2009

Here is an update:

* In the first two days of conflict, seven military helicopters had already brought 15 IDF soldiers by airlift for treatment at Sheba. This includes the Golani battalion commander who was moderately injured in last week's unfortunate friendly-fire incident, and several others from the same battle. We have one soldier who is in very, very, serious and critical condition.

* Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni visited the wounded here last week.

* The Rehabilitation Hospital is gearing up in the expectation that we will begin to receive many soldiers for long-term healing from all the other hospitals in the country.

* IDF troops also evacuated a seven-year-old Palestinian child who was hit by the Palestinians' own kassam missile fire, and he is in the The Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital at Sheba for treatment. (This is highly unusual, because the Hamas is refusing to allow any Palestinian casualties out to Israeli hospitals. In this specific case, the child was brought out by IDF forces in the field.)

* Here is an interesting twist: For some time, we have had six senior Fatah officials and officers in rehabilitation. These men were senior Palestinian Authority figures in the Gaza Strip before the Hamas coup 18 months ago. They had their legs broken and limbs chopped off by the Hamas as part of the internal bloodletting that went on there. So, IDF soldiers battling the Hamas, and Fatah victims of the Hamas, will be doing rehab side by side at Sheba.

Uncomfortable, unique, and quintessentially Sheba.

Hoping for calmer times.

Israeli general: Never knew I was evacuating my wounded soldier son from Gaza

Haaretz 13:40 06/01/2009 - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053157.html

By Yuval Goren, Noa Kosharek and Yanir Yagna Brig. Gen. (res.)

Zvi Fogel commanded the artillery strike that provided cover for the evacuation of six IDF soldiers wounded in the Gaza Strip on Monday.

It was only after the six troops were successfully transferred to Tel Hashomer hospital in central Israel that he discovered he had helped to rescue his son.

"They told me it was his battalion, but it never crossed my mind that my son was among the wounded," he said. "A little before eight my other son phoned me and said 'Dad, we're going to Tel Hashomer.'"

After a brief hour-long visit with his wounded son, Fogel returned to Southern Command headquarters in Be'er Sheva.

The family and friends of the wounded flocked to the hospital.

"They phoned me a little before eight to tell me that my husband was lightly wounded and was being transferred to Tel Hashomer. I caught a glimpse of him before he was taken into the operating room? His face was a little burnt and I could see the shrapnel wounds," said the wife of one of the wounded soldiers.

An officer who was lightly wounded in the incident returned to his soldiers in the field right after he was treated.

The father of a wounded soldier, tears in his eyes, stood in the hallway and comforted his daughter. "Thank God he's only lightly wounded," he said. "He's covered in shrapnel. We spoke to him; he can communicate. But he hasn't told us what happened over there."