The SHL monitoring center in Tel Aviv. ‘We have customers who are transmitting their ECG from any part of the world you can imagine’ – SHL’s Erez Alroy.Israeli scientists have developed a portable electrocardiograph machine that can transmit highly detailed …

A once-a-day breast cancer pill has won approval from the FDA thanks in part to clinical trials conducted by Israeli researchers. On Tuesday, GlaxoSmithKline won US approval for the pill – called Tykerb – that the drug maker hopes will …

Dr. Yoav Livney: We are hoping to enrich non-fat milk and other low-fat food products with vitamin D and other essential health-promoting nutraceuticals – such as vitamins A and E, minerals and antioxidants – lacking in many people’s diet.Yoav Livney …

‘We were able to show in vitro and in lab mice that IgG manufactured from the plasma of the vitiligo donors, can prevent the melanoma cells from growing and spreading in a mouse melanoma model’ – GammaCan CEO Patrick Schnegelsberg.Melanoma …

Prof. Rafael Beyar and colleague Dr. Genia Nikolsky, director of research in interventional cardiology, in the Rambam Medical Center’s Catheterization lab.Cardiologists from Rambam Medical Center in Haifa have proven for the first time that a prototype hybrid device combining a …

Nava Dolev doles out advice – ”The message we want to get out there is that you don’t need permission to get more information.’When 75-year-old Miriam (not her actual name) needed an emergency hip replacement, she heeded her surgeon’s advice …

‘My dream was to develop a self-sterilizing textile,’ says Jeffrey Gabbay, founder and CEO of Cupron. To accomplish goals as diverse as preventing the transmission of the avian flu virus to curing athlete’s foot, Cupron, a small American company with …

Signals from disposable sensors track cervix dilation and fetal head descent, providing continuous and accurate data throughout the birthing process.In 2001, Israeli obstetrician Dr. Dan Farine came to the conclusion that there had to be a better way to measure …

Prof. Rachel Levy in her lab at Ben-Gurion Univeristy.The transformation in her laboratory mice was so dramatic that Israeli biochemist Prof. Rachel Levy could not believe her eyes when she first saw the results. The mice, suffering from severe rheumatoid …

The CardioFit electrical stimulator system is designed to improve heart function through the controlled stimulation of the vagus nerve which is found in the neck.The entrepreneurs and researchers behind Israeli company BioControl Medical Ltd. have already struck gold once. Now …