Anonymous Israeli donor brightens outlook for U.S. leukemia patient
Allen Vollen and daughter Elana, before finding out he had Leukemia. A stem cell transplant will increase Vollen’s chances of surviving from 20 to 60
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Allen Vollen and daughter Elana, before finding out he had Leukemia. A stem cell transplant will increase Vollen’s chances of surviving from 20 to 60
Safeguards under the BVR Systems-Veritouch Ltd security package begin at airport check-in and continue throughout the flight.Israel-based BVR Systems is joining U.S.-based Veritouch Ltd to
Software companies are demanding more effective solutions to the loss of income from piracy.The problem of software and computer games piracy is growing proportionally to
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
U.S. and Israeli partners have benefited from $180 million in funding from BIRD for industrial and technology projects.The BIRD Foundation has been promoting bi-lateral cooperation
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,
Bluetooth technology can enable cell phones to communicate with laptops.Texas Instruments’ Short Distance Wireless Israel is introducing a new Israel-developed chip that the company says
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
More than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies in the United States use the products of the Israeli company Check Point.Three Israeli firms made
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