ILSI-Biomed Israel

Meet the Speakers: How will the U.S. Healthcare Reform Affect Medical Innovation?

How will president Obama's up-and-coming healthcare reform affect medical innovation? A panel of experts will focus on the problem in ILSI-BioMed 2010 week If you ask a Israeli what U.S. president Barack Obama most burning aspiration is, he’ll probably say it’s the resolution of the dispute in the Middle East. Put the same question to an American citizen, though, and he’ll immediately answer that Obama wants to reform the healthcare system, and for a good reason too. At the moment, health...

New Discovery: HIV can Hide in Bone Marrow Cells

Scientists from the University of Michigan revealed that bone marrow cells can hold latent forms of  HIV The main problem with HIV is that it is pretty much untreatable. Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration; after all, we have the cocktail – a mixture of anti-retroviral drugs that halts the virus in its tracks. But the bitter truth is that the cocktail only slows down the progress of the disease, and prolongs the time until the virus manages to demolish the immune system of the patient. We ...