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Israeli Doctors Rush to Save Romanian Babies From Burn Wounds

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman
(Dr. Josef Haik.)
Not long after I gave birth myself, a couple of weeks ago, I read news from Romania that shocked: a fire had blazed through a maternity ward in a Romanian hospital, the Giulesti hospital in Bucharest on August 16, killing five preemies, and seriously burning six others. Women still in labor [...]

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Tales from the Womb: Israeli Miracle Baby Saves Mom and Herself

July 20th, 2010 · Comments Off

By Karin Kloosterman

An SOS from the womb? From a land that is familiar with the notion of miracles: Israeli doctors are calling the emergency C-section birth of a new baby girl last week nothing short of a miracle. While undergoing a routine sonogram before her pre-planned C-section, Hindi Gross the mom-to-be received some very unsettling [...]

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Israeli-Canadian Doc IDs African Gene That Points to Kidney Failure

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman
Part of a growing movement of personalized medicine, Israel’s Prof. Karl Skorecki from the Rambam Medical Center revealed yesterday in Toronto at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (University of Toronto) what’s being called a “momentous new finding” in the race to find the gene that leads to kidney failure in people with African [...]

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Tags: Health & Science · Karin Kloosterman