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Israeli Researcher Close to Alzheimer’s Vaccine

03-Oct-09

This man, Dr. Alon Monsonego of Ben Gurion University, could be the face put on a real, workable Alzheimer’s vaccine. Alzheimer’s being one of the scariest, most devastating mental diseases imaginable where you pretty much die before you die since your mind is practically erased, this is very encouraging news. That, and cases have increased [...]

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Cancer Breathalizer Comes out of Technion at Haifa

06-Sep-09

Wow. These Israeli inventions just keep coming, don’t they? We’ve heard of cancer sniffing dogs, so why not program some artificial intelligence to do the same thing? Revealed this week in Nature Nanotechnology journal, the “cancer breathalyzer” can detect lung cancer with 86 percent accuracy. It can even detect cancers that are not even large [...]

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Israeli Medicine at it Again – Heart Repaired after Heart Attack

26-Aug-09

It has often been assumed that after a heart attack, where by definition a piece of the heart dies for lack of blood and oxygen, the damage is irreparably permanent. However, Israel has done it again, this time by proving that, indeed, it is not.
Over a month ago, OneJerusalem reported an Israeli breakthrough as [...]

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Insulin Shots for Diabetics a Thing of the Past?

14-Aug-09

How’s THIS for the only democracy in the Middle East: Thanks to a Tel Aviv University student named Adi Mor, Insulin Shots may become obsolete very soon.
Adi has developed a tablet-based treatment for Type 1 diabetes, which tests show restores insulin production in animals. The drug is based on something called a Ras protein [...]

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Annual Check Up

05-Jul-09

Something I found in my Inbox this morning…
I sincerely hope that when the president goes in for his annual check-up, the doctors at Bethesda will do a brain scan. Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with [...]

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Save an Angel: Amit Kadosh Bone Marrow Donation Drive Today

21-Jan-09

Today Jan 21st, 2009 is the Bone Marrow Recruitment day for this 6 year old angel – time is running out. The cost of each of these tests is 180 NIS – So let the moth out of your wallet and give now !!!
The story is from the good people at Ezer Mizion…
Amit Kadosh [...]

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