Friday, November 20, 2009

Israel's Medical Miracles


Israeli Invention: Early Detection of Skin Tumors -Dan Even

A new Israeli invention allows cancerous tumors on the skin to be detected and examined before they become visible to the naked eye, Ben-Gurion University announced. The developer of the new instrument said the technology "allows manipulation of different light frequencies and adjustments to electric fields to examine skin lesions."
(Ha'aretz)


Tel Aviv University: New Wound Dressing with Antibiotics

About 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University could cut that number dramatically.

Prof. Meital Zilberman of TAU's Department of Biomedical Engineering has developed a new wound dressing based on fibers she engineered that can be loaded with drugs like antibiotics to speed up the healing process, and then dissolve when they've done their job.
(Medical News)


Bone Repair "Breakthrough" at Hadassah -Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

A team at Jerusalem's Hadassah University Medical Center has managed to separate platelets and adult stem cells from the blood and bone marrow of patients with fractures and inject them - causing the bones to meld in a quarter to third of the time, and repairing some breaks that would have failed to heal.
(Jerusalem Post)
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