ILSI-Biomed Israel

A Novel Israeli Kit for Regaining Feeling in the Palms

Sheba Hospital will expose a Israeli kit for sensory training, that improves the brain activity for patients who suffer from a decrease in feeling in the palms The Department for Multiple Sclerosis in Sheba Hopsital will present for the first time a novel kit for sensory training, that improves patients' brain activity. The kit will be presented in the BioMed Israel Week 2010, which will be held on July 14th-16th in Tel Aviv. The kit is based on cylinders that come in varied textures, an...

Networking with Five Italian Companies

Five Italian biomedical companies are coming to Israel, and are interested in meeting suitable Israeli business partners It’s not WHAT you know, it’s WHO you know! Relationships are the catalyst for success! Do the above two statements look familiar? They should. They are the axioms of the Networking Theory (name not trademarked, invented on the spot). While networking seems to be the new religion of the business folks, I daresay that it’s been around for quite a bit. Even apes have...

May 11th: Seminar on Advantages of Manufacturing in Israel

SAVE THE DATE May 11th, 16:00-19:00 Beit Chel Ha’avir, 15  Jabotinski Street, Herzelia Advantages of Manufacturing in Israel The seminar will focus on issues related to options, advantages and Governmental policies associated with manufacturing of Medical Devices and Biopharma products in Israel.  The event will be moderated by Moshe Mizrahy, founder of Nitzanim Medical Fund  Agenda 16:00-16:20           Moshe Mizrahy - Introduction 16:20-16:40           Dr. Ora Dar, ...

The Power Solution: Thermoelectric Generators to Sustain Implanted Medical Devices

Efficient thermoelectric generators were recently published as a possibly efficient way to sustain implanted medical devices Let's face it: we're dealing with an aging population. There's no way around this fact, and the obvious implication is that in the future we're going to need better heart pacemakers and better systems for insulin injection. The future seems to be heading towards more sophisticated implantable machinery, be it pacemakers or sustainable drug-release devices inside the bod...

Plastics that Distort DNA Readings

A new research reveals that polypropylene tubes can contaminate solutions in the PCR and distort the DNA spectrometer readings. One year ago, a group of researchers at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem reported a sharp rise in the diagnoses of a certain metabolic disorder. To those of us who live in Jerusalem, fear not. Other than the Holyland story, nothing really happened in the Israeli capital in the last year. The only change is that the lab at Hadassah changed th...

First worldwide patients treated with anti-adhesion SpineShield

Magen Medical Solutions Ltd., a medical device company developing unique anti-adhesion devices for orthopedic applications, is pleased to announce that it has successfully implanted its first product, the SpineShield, in three patients at a clinical site in Europe. Post-operative adhesion is considered a major cause of failed back surgery. In up to 15% of cases, patients suffer from pain due to spinal adhesion, or scar tissue formation around the spinal cord, which may require a second su...

The Law of the Ordinary and Contact Lenses against Glaucoma

A new invention in the form of contact lenses against glaucoma, shows how biomedical devices should be designed I like to think about biomedical instruments as bits of magic. Not because they cause wonders and provide instant-cures (though some do), but because the more ordinary and mundane in appearance they are, the better they become – much as in magic tricks. It’s the Law of the Ordinary ™. If you market a device for overcoming seizures, and it looks like a robotic arm-sleeve, the...

A New Promise for High-Speed Genetic Sequencing

A new promise for high-speed genetic sequencing by threading DNA segments through carbon nanotubes was revealed in Science this week The Human Genome Project was first launched in 1990 by the US government, and a working draft of the genome was issued ten years later. At 1998, a similar venture was launched by Craig Venter and his firm Celera Genomics, who made use of a faster sequencing method to reach an initial working draft in only two years. It’s clear that genetic sequencing technol...

EnzySurge Receives FDA Approval for SilverStream™ Innovative Wound Management Solution

A novel therapeutic method, which can be used for the treatment of pressure ulcers, diabetic ulcers, post-surgical wounds and first and second degree burns, has received the FDA clearance Rosh Ha’Ayin, Israel, December 15, 2009 – EnzySurge Ltd. (EnzySurge), a provider of innovative solutions for the advanced chronic wound management market, announced today that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market  its new SilverStream™ solution for prescri...

Novel Nanosensors for Cancer Detection in Whole Blood

Cure for cancer? Nowhere near so far. But work is being done on early detection of cancer, which could be almost as good as a cure. I keep reading everywhere about cures for cancer. Almost every day I hear about this or another new way to solve cancer, coming in the freshest press release from the universities and research labs. This is nonsense, obviously. Cancer is just a tiny word for the hundreds of different afflictions that arise when a cell can’t control itself any longer and the i...