Archives for 2019

Patients Of The Future Will Be Treated By Virtual Doctors

Home checkup kits will arrive at home by drone, carrying devices to draw and analyze blood. Sensors placed around the house will monitor gait and transmit information on the status of back trouble. Smartphones will be able to check eyesight, breath or voice to scan for specific ills. Should anything be amiss, the virtual doctor would schedule an appointment with the relevant … [Read more...]

Cutting Edge New Devices Sure To Change Everything

Medical devices that could disrupt the healthcare field will be among the cutting-edge technologies to be revealed at the 18th annual MIXiii-Biomed Conference and Exhibition, May 14-16 in Tel Aviv. More than 1,000 scientists, key opinion leaders, entrepreneurs and investors from 45 countries are expected to join 5,000 Israeli counterparts at the event. Sessions will … [Read more...]

Israeli Biotech Startup Combines Immunology, AI To Help Develop Better Drugs

The world of pharmaceutical drug development and discovery is notoriously complex, expensive, and slow-moving. It can take billions of dollars and between a decade or two from the research and development stage to market approval. And rightly so. After all, human lives are at stake. But imagine if you could feed data about a new pharmaceutical drug into a machine learning … [Read more...]

How Circadian Rhythm Affects Your Health

Far more than your alarm clock, what governs your wake-sleep cycle is the internal circadian clock regulating your whole body. This biological timekeeper also affects hunger, thirst, body temperature, mood, hormone fluctuations and more. This is a hot topic in Israel and abroad due to the “extreme importance of the circadian clock on many different processes in neurobiology … [Read more...]

Israeli Study Shows More Successful Method For Skin Grafts

Skin grafts are modern medicine miracles, saving the lives of people suffering from severe tissue damage. Unfortunately, they are also complicated to perform and carry the risk of infection, rejection and a whole lot of pain. d. Instead of using the patient’s own skin or the skin of others, lab-grown tissue is used to replace or regenerate the damaged area. This too is a … [Read more...]