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One year after the brutal mass attack by Hamas terrorists on southern Israel, and the country is still dealing with the subsequent and ongoing war in Gaza, driving Hezbollah from the northern border, and attacks by Iran and its other proxies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.  But during the past year, Israelis have displayed the […]

Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital both in Israel and the entire Middle East, has again been internationally ranked by Newsweek magazine, this time as one of the world’s best smart hospitals for 2025.  In February, Newsweek placed Sheba on its annual list of the world’s best hospitals overall, for the fifth time in six […]

Working alongside three major Israeli medical centers, researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a new method to detect protein aggregation (abnormal protein activity in cells), which is a key indicator of Parkinson’s.   The new technology can help make a diagnosis of the neurodegenerative disease up to 20 years before the first motor symptoms appear, […]

Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest and internationally ranked hospital, has announced the creation of a first-of-its-kind launchpad for Israeli and global healthtech startups.  The hospital says that embARC Ventures, which was presented at the annual summit of Sheba’s ARC Innovation Center, aims to nurture medical innovation by providing financial backing, mentorship and access to global […]

Medtech startup AISAP has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its unique CARDIO point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) platform, which automatically generates analyses, interpretations and reports on a patient suffering from heart disease.  The software platform allows clinicians to accurately diagnose up to 90 percent of the most common cardiac parameters within […]

A new study by Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest and internationally ranked hospital, found that remote hospital care at home, supervised by a physician, yields better outcomes for acutely ill patients than an actual stay in hospital.    The first-of-its-kind, peer-reviewed study was carried out at Beyond, Sheba’s virtual hospital. It was led by Prof. Gad […]

A newly published study by Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest and internationally ranked hospital, shows that AI analysis of medical records as patients are admitted to the ER can accurately identify those at high risk of pulmonary embolism (PE). A pulmonary embolism is a sudden blockage in an artery in the lung caused by a […]

Belkin Vision, an Israeli startup that developed automatic and noninvasive laser surgery for glaucoma, has been bought by Swiss-American eyecare giant Alcon Pharmaceuticals for $466 million. The Eagle device is the first and only contactless laser surgery for glaucoma, one of the main causes of blindness in the world, affecting about 70 million patients across […]

The future for medical technology in Israel is a bright one and artificial intelligence will play a major role in it, according to veteran medtech entrepreneur and industry insider Eran Lerer.  “The advancement in AI and GenerativeAI increased the chances of creating new and innovative ideas that weren’t available in the past,” Lerer tells NoCamels.  […]

With hands-on experience of patients throughout their care, nurses have a deep understanding of the needs and the complexities involved, something which Israel’s largest hospital, the internationally celebrated Sheba Medical Center, is now tapping into.  Sheba’s SPARC Entrepreneurship Program, a three-month course designed to support clinicians as they commercialize their innovative solutions, has just launched […]

A Jerusalem startup that produces saliva tests for a series of conditions is working with Israel’s largest hospital to develop a similar test for cancer in the oral cavity (mouth area).  The test produced by Salignostics and ARC, the innovation department of Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, will be the first ever saliva-based diagnostic […]

Israeli medtech startup QuantalX Neuroscience has partnered with Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in both Israel and the entire Middle East, on maintaining brain health as we age.  QuantalX, which developed an early detection device for brain disorders, will work with the Sheba Longevity Center in what the company says is “a pivotal moment […]

Everyone knows what it is like trying to pick something up while wearing bulky gloves – our hands feel clumsier and objects are harder to grasp. Most significantly, we are deprived of the ability to feel our surroundings with our own bodies, denying us one of the most crucial ways we navigate safely through the […]

Israeli researchers have developed a way to model human muscle diseases in tiny worms, providing a new, versatile platform to study such ailments.  The researchers from Bar-Ilan University and Sheba Medical Center took extracellular vesicles (very small sacs of fluid released by cells to perform a range of functions) from the blood of patients with […]

As Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza rages on, clinicians and healthcare professionals across the country have mobilized to help treat and rehabilitate the hundreds of soldiers wounded in the conflict. Amid the innovative treatments offered by hospitals and rehabilitation institutions is a laser-based therapy that tackles chronic pain experienced by soldiers.   The use of […]