MidEast

In March, 200 participants in the 16th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound in Tel Aviv saw a livestreamed medical procedure to cure a woman’s essential tremor without incisions or anesthesia. Neurology and radiology experts at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa used the Exablate Neuro system developed in Israel by...

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Bacterial adherence to medical implants and surgical equipment is a known cause of infections. Now, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed an innovative anti-biofilm coating, which has significant anti-adhesive potential for a variety of medical and industrial applications. And that could mean far fewer infections following...

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The forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad continued bombing rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Friday, striking a medical clinic and killing two doctors just days after destroying a hospital in the city. The clinic, which has been offering dental services and treating patients with chronic illnesses for approximately five years,...

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An experiment carried out at Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology could prove famed physicist Stephen Hawking’s theories about the nature of black holes, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Hawking hypothesized in 1974 that black holes contain subatomic light particles that could escape and take energy with them, eventually leading to...

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A barrage of airstrikes that destroyed a hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing patients and doctors, appears to have been a deliberate attack by the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. “The indications that we have now...

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Hezbollah’s military activities on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights is similar to what Israel observed prior to when Hezbollah launched the 2006 war, an IDF officer told Israel’s Channel 2 Wednesday. Hezbollah is “obsessively” tracking and monitoring Israeli soldiers from across the border, Lt. Col. Eliav Elbaz said,...

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