Top cancer researchers convene in Beersheva
World-class experts from Israel and New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center explore new frontiers in research and treatment.
Soroka Medical Center hosted the binational conference.
What are the connections between breast cancer and bone health, breast cancer and heredity, and obesity and cancer risk? Top Israeli and American experts gathered at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva on April 2 to share new frontiers in cancer research and therapy that are changing our understanding of the disease dramatically.
The Israeli venue for a major meeting of medical minds was an obvious choice, according to conference co-chair Dr. Larry Norton, medical director of the Evelyn Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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In recent months, Israel’s health and education ministries have been promoting a coronavirus testing program in the country’s schools in an effort to spot and curb any new outbreaks of the virus in the schools.
Dubbed Magen Hinuch, “education shield” in Hebrew, information security researchers have now found that the program inadvertently exposed confidential information pertaining to students and parents, including medical information.
The purpose of the program appears entirely appropriate, but suspicions arose after the parents of students at the school attended by the daughter of Noam Rotem - one of Israel’s better known ethical hackers - received information from the school about the program. Some of the parents became suspicious, among them the co-host of Israel’s Cyber Cyber podcast on all things hacking.
Netanyahu promises reform after disabled veterans stage mass protest in Tel Aviv
Netanyahu promises reform after disabled veterans stage mass protest in Tel Aviv
Both “first aid” and “comprehensive” reforms will be brought to the Cabinet within two weeks, promises Israeli premier.
Israeli veterans and disabled soldiers protest outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, April 18, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
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(April 19, 2021 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with disabled Israel Defense Force veterans on Sunday in Tel Aviv, hours after hundreds of veterans blocked the city’s Ayalon highway in protest against their treatment by the Defense Ministry.
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Optimism is fine, but the virus is still with us
Optimism is fine, but the virus is still with us
Israel’s vaccination campaign has been an unprecedented success, but questions remain open and new variants could still complicate things.
(March 17, 2021 / JNS) Israel is beginning to turn the tide in the fight against the COVID pandemic. This success is a direct result of the country’s impressive vaccination campaign, which has led to a drop in disease morbidity and an ongoing reopening of the economy and return to ordinary life.
The eyes of the world are on Israel, which is leading the globe in terms of the percentage of citizens vaccinated. More than 5 million people have received at least one dose, and 4 million-plus have received both doses meaning that 57 percent of the total population has been vaccinated. There is no doubt that the vaccine is effective, and the data proves it: None of the patients hospitalized and on ECMO machines were vaccinated at all, and only one of