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The DaVinci of Surgery

Artist, dentist, sculptor and internationally-known surgeon: all these titles belong to one man, Prof. Stephen A. Schendel, who recently visited Rambam. There, he performed innovative operations and gave lessons in the art of medicine. Prof. Stephen A. Schendel and Rambam doctors performing surgery. © Pioter Fliter-RHCC During the beginning of March, Rambam surgeons conducted two complicated operations that included maxillofacial and plastic surgery. Such treatments are usually divi...

Not Clowning Around

The operating room is not the most pleasant place for any patient. But for children about to undergo surgery, it is especially frightening. At Rambam we’ve learned that there is nothing to fear but fear itself. Now, as part of preparation for surgery, children become familiar with the operating room through the guidance of a medical clown called ‘Bermula’ Rambam’s medical clowns. Pioter Fliter-RHCC.© Medical clowns have been active at Rambam for the last eight years. Now, they have ent...

Protecting Fetuses and their Mothers

Rambam researchers were the first in the world to link blood clotting with fetal loss and vascular complications in pregnant women. In light of these findings, they developed medical treatment that is now saving fetuses and their mothers around the globe. Prof. Benjamin Brenner at the laboratory in Rambam. Raanan Tal-RHCC© Research at Rambam Health Care Campus (RHCC) has drawn a direct connection between blood clotting, and fetal loss and vascular complications in pregnant women. The...

Research at Rambam: One Session of Waterpipe Smoking May Significantly Affect Health

Rambam researchers have shown that even one waterpipe session significantly affected users’ lung function, and increased blood pressure and pulse. It boosted amounts of the toxin carboxyhemoglobin to levels that may require medical attention, oxygen administration or hyperbaric treatment. To achieve this toxic level, one must smoke between 10-100 cigarettes. Additionally, levels of exhaled NO, a molecule that helps protect the heart, lung and blood vessels greatly decreased. Research subjec...

Out, Damn’d Spot! Hand Washing Combats Deadly Infections

Hospitals are hothouses for bacteria and viruses – sometimes deadly – that are often passed from patient to patient by the medical staff. An innovative Israeli device, already operating at Rambam, monitors the medical team to ensure proper hand-washing. Hospital-acquired diseases and infections have reached plague-like proportions in medical centers around the world. In the USA alone, close to 100,000 deaths and expenditure of some $30 billion yearly result from preventable illnesses contract...

Guests of Honour in Rambam Health Care Campus

In recent weeks, Rambam has welcomed a number of honored visitors to its health care campus. On October 27, 2010, a delegation of senior businesspeople from the USA spent an afternoon touring Rambam. Two weeks later, on November 16, 2010, the Haifa-Boston City to City Delegation arrived. Both delegations shared the same goal: to get an overview of the medical center, past, present and future. The delegation of senior businesspeople from the USA at RHCC. Photo credit: Pioter Fliter. The ...

Researchers from RAMBAM Hospital Fight Parkinson’s Disease with Imagination

A new research from RAMBAM hospital shows that Guided Affective Imagery (דמיון מודרך) can make the tremors of Parkinson's disease go away. The relationship between the mind and the body has never been fully determined. Worse, the field is wide open for charlatans, holistic healers, homeopaths, naturopaths and what-have-you. However, from time to time we get some ‘real’ peer-reviewed scientific papers that offer new insights on the mind-body link. Such a paper was recently published in the...

June 15th, 2010: A Meeting with the Sheba & Rambam Campus Scientists

June 15th, 2010: A Meeting with the Sheba & Rambam Campus Scientists