Israel’s Teva leads U.S. generic drug market
Generic drugs produced by Teva and other manufacturers are often 50 to 80 percent cheaper than competing brand-name products.The need for quality health care combined
Generic drugs produced by Teva and other manufacturers are often 50 to 80 percent cheaper than competing brand-name products.The need for quality health care combined
Prof. Shimon Slavin of Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem holds baby Salsabil.An Israeli medical team has saved the life of an Arab “bubble baby”
A magnetic resonance imaging machine locates cancer tumors and detects if they’ve been killed by ultrasound treatments.Israel-based Insightec has signed preliminary contracts with Brigham &
TransScan’s breast imaging device is aimed at the market for women under 40 for whom mammograms are not recommended.Breast cancer specialists are looking for a
Canada has about 400 biotechnology companies, many of which are startups, versus about 175 in Israel.Canada’s biotechnology industry found a new romance at Bio 2002,
A new Israeli drug applied before angioplasty is designed to prevent the re-closing of arteries opened by the surgical procedure.A researcher at the Hebrew University
Dexanabinol keeps the brain from swelling up and crushing itself inside the skull and protects unharmed parts of the brain.There is currently no drug available
Phage Biotech’s research is targeting a $26 billion worldwide market for bacterial infection therapies.Biotechnology companies may be getting the headlines for new ways of manipulating
Israeli Defense Force members carry a wounded Palestinian gunman from the Church of the Nativity standoff to an ambulance to be taken to Hadassah Hospital
Most beginning surgeons now sharpen their technique by practicing on real patients.For years airplane pilots have trained on flight simulators in addition to flying thousands
Israel-based Compugen has research partnerships with companies in Europe, Japan and the United States.Compugen and Millennium Pharmaceuticals announced at the Israel Bio-Tech 2002 Conference in
A recent survey pointed to Jerusalem as having the potential to become an international biotechnology center.The European Union has approved the establishment of a biotechnology
With development costs of $100 million to $1 billion per product, Israeli biotech companies are constantly seeking overseas investor capital.Nano-sized chips that will be able
Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel has a mission of serving children from other countries as a bridge to peace.Dr. Orna Blondheim, director of Schneider
GVT’s technology inserts a healthy gene into cells where genes are malfunctioning in treating cancers.Gene Vector Technologies is one of the few gene therapy companies